Biden's botched Afghan withdrawal just got worse

Did anyone expect America to have a "Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Climate" or a "Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment & Energy Resilience" (and if you can decipher what those titles mean, please share!)? Well, it turns out we do. And what's even more surprising, while U.S. troops were facing a chaotic and bloody withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, these two Pentagon officials were hard at work… hashing out a climate change initiative.

According to James Fitzpatrick, a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, recently uncovered Pentagon emails reveal that during the tumultuous withdrawal from Kabul under the Biden Administration, Department of Defense officials were rushing to finalize a military "climate adaptation plan" in coordination with the White House.

“While the Biden Administration was in the middle of a disastrous and deadly Afghanistan withdrawal, our top military leaders were being hounded by DoD climate activists to fast track a plan to transform the Department by forcing politically charged climate change discussions into every decision the DoD makes,” Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire.

Allegedly, the Pentagon has confirmed that the mentioned officials, along with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, were in the process of finalizing their climate document even during the military crisis. The emails, reviewed by The Daily Wire, suggest that DoD personnel became frustrated due to the crisis's impact on the approval process of the climate plan.

“The frustration was not that the mission in Afghanistan had devolved into a full-fledged crisis,” The Daily Wire reported, “with people falling off planes as they departed the airport, nearly 200 murdered by terrorists as they flooded the airport in hopes of evacuation, and a botched military drone strike that killed civilians rather than terrorist targets. It was that [Secretary of Defense] Austin had failed to sign the climate plan.”

Less than two weeks after the crisis, Austin would eventually sign the document, which can be seen here.

The Biden Admin’s Afghanistan failure has already been roundly criticized. This latest revelation only further exposes our federal government’s out-of-touch priorities. Even as our troops bled and died on foreign soil, the Department of Defense seemed more preoccupied with addressing the "national security risk posed by climate change."

How sick. How truly, truly sick.

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