In a shocking disclosure, U.S. Army General Mark Milley, President Joe Biden’s chief military advisor conceded, America lost the twenty-year war in Afghanistan.
“Of course, I mean, we lost, obviously, the 13 at Abbey Gate on top of the 2,400 that were killed from 9/11 on in Afghanistan,” he said in an ABC News interview.
Milley said the war in Afghanistan did not end the way he wanted it to after 13 servicemembers were killed in a botched and hectic withdrawal from the country.
“It didn’t end the way I wanted it. That didn’t end the way any of us wanted it,” he said. “Look, at — when the enemy is occupying your capital … that’s a strategic setback, strategic failure. That’s what I testified to in public. And there’s no way you can describe that as a strategic success.”
It was the first time a high-ranking U.S. official declared the war in Afghanistan a military defeat.
“Wars aren’t lost in the last 10 days or 10 months. Typically, they’re the cumulative effect of lots of turns and twists over many, many years,” he concluded.
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