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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I think you missed a key point here, and it happens constantly. US Intelligence and other intelligence agencies were warned that this would happen, that there would be a fairly rapid collapse. The political leaders ignored the warnings. The same thing happened in 9/11, however in that case it was because the CIA for example was going through an internal war and so the President was flooded with dissenting positions from the CIA at the time.
In this case the warnings were on the same page, and the State Department in the US and the president and probably foreign affairs and the PM ignored the warnings and dragged their feet and moved with next to no urgency.
Now they're trapped in a situation that is not just a military situation, but a Political Bear trap.
With Canada there was a plan in place as far back as Thursday, and the air and troop assets were positioned in Kuwait, and they sat there with no approval from FA or DND because an election was called and the government was too busy with that. (was published earlier today by the Sun).
Now we're back in line of sending planes in when the American's give the go ahead to use he airfield.
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It does blow my mind that the government (both US & Canada) wouldn't have a plan in place, pre approved by the President or PM in case poop does hit the fan.
Why on earth do they need to wait for approval?
They already got enough approval to move the assets in place, and then all of a sudden 'oh hey, we can't get a hold of the PM, he is busy trying to buy more election votes.'
What a disaster.