The Wall Street Journal revealed on Thursday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was warned as far back as mid-July that Kabul would fall into Taliban hands by the August 31 troop withdrawal deadline, putting the lie to the Biden administration’s claims that it was caught off guard by the country’s swift collapse.

“About two dozen State Department officials serving at the embassy in Kabul sent an internal memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and another top State Department official last month warning of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after the Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline,” the WSJ reported.

The classified cable, dated July 13, warned that the Taliban would quickly gain control of Afghanistan and “offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation.” It also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban.

This revelation is the clearest evidence yet that the catastrophically incompetent Biden administration had been warned by its own officials on the ground that the Taliban’s advance was imminent. And it contradicts multiple public statements from Biden himself and other administration officials, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who this week said no such intelligence existed.

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Antony Blinken

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Blinken has publicly criticized the United States on numerous occasions. For example:

On May 25, 2021, he tweeted: “On the anniversary of George Floyd‘s murder [sic], we remember that to be a credible force for human rights around the world, we must face the reality of racism at home. By addressing our shortcomings openly and honestly, we live up to the values that we stand for worldwide.

On June 1, 2021, Blinken condemned the U.S. for its alleged “systemic racism,” tweeting: “100 years ago Black Americans in Tulsa were subject to one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our history. Our nation must confront systemic racism, both in our past and at present, openly. @POTUS is leading this Administration’s commitment to doing this difficult work.” Blinken was replying to a tweet from President Joe Biden earlier the same day, in which Biden had said: “100 years ago, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma was ruthlessly attacked by a white supremacist mob—as many as 300 Black Americans were killed and 10,000 were left homeless.”

In July 2021, Politico obtained and reported on a cable in which Blinken had instructed American diplomats deployed at U.S. embassies around the world, to openly admit their own country’s failure to adequately promote human rights and democratic values. The Politico report quoted Blinken saying that U.S. diplomats should: (a) make it “clear that we ask no more of other countries than we ask of ourselves,” and (b) “acknowledge our imperfections,” “openly and honestly” — even though this might be “painful, even ugly” — rather than “sweep them under the rug.”

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