ANALYSIS – Absolutely shameful and unsurprising. While American troops were recklessly retreating from Afghanistan, top Biden Pentagon officials (aka ‘climate activists’) were lobbying the Secretary of Defense to sign off on a plan declaring climate change a top national security threat.
This, according to emails reviewed by The Daily Wire. James Fitzpatrick, a member of the U.S. Army Reserve obtained the emails through his organization, the Center to Advance Security in America.
As the Daily Wire reported:
The emails indicate frustration from climate change-focused Pentagon officials at the difficulty of getting the plan signed — but that ultimately their determination to focus on climate change even during the Afghanistan withdrawal paid off. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signed the climate initiative on September 1, just six days after 13 Americans were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber.
In a foreword to the idiotic Department of Defense (DOD) planning document, Austin states that noting the “national security risk posed by climate change” is an “essential step … to defend the nation.”
The full DOD Climate Adaptation Plan, dated September 1, 2021, can be seen here.
Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghan withdrawal is widely considered one of the biggest military failures in American history.
It allowed the demonic Taliban to regain power almost twenty years to the date of the September 11 terror attacks of 2001 (9/11). I was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and at Ground Zero in NYC a day later to help with recovery efforts.
I was also intimately involved for months, during Biden’s 2021 retreat, in a feverish attempt by fellow veterans, service members and civilian volunteers to rescue and evacuate abandoned Americans and Afghan allies.
And even though I was based in D.C. at the time, the emotions and stress were overwhelming.
More than 800 Americans were left behind by Biden, as well as thousands of Afghans who feared for their lives for assisting U.S. military forces.
The Wire added:
At the center of the push were two senior Pentagon officials: Joe Bryan, the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Climate, and Richard Kidd, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment & Energy Resilience. The pair traded emails throughout the Afghanistan crisis on the Climate Adaptation Plan, strategizing on how to get it signed by Austin.
“I think it’s a tough lift to get [Secretary of Defense] to sign the CAP this week. He’s not looking at much that isn’t Afghanistan-related,” wrote Bryan on August 17, a day after President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the ongoing crisis in Kabul. Bryan suggested escalating the issue to a White House official named Andrew Mayock, who was appointed Biden’s Chief Sustainability Officer.
Fitzpatrick was quoted by The Wire as saying: “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 make.”
The Wire continued:
The pair [Joe Bryan and Richard Kidd] appears to have grown frustrated in the days that followed. The frustration was not that the mission in Afghanistan had devolved into a full-fledged crisis 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 Austin had failed to sign the climate plan.
Fitzpatrick also said it’s “appalling” to see “politically charged climate change discussions” were distracting military leaders during the chaotic and deadly Afghan withdrawal.
“To think that American military and political leadership turned their attention to finalize a so-called ‘Climate Action Plan’ in the midst of a Taliban terrorist attack and while Americans and our allies were facing such clear and present danger,” Fitzpatrick said.
“God bless the Gold Star families who have to live with this reality.”
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NO U need TO fight wars NOT Climate change
In regard to people falling off planes: The botched withdrawal was in August 2021. In late July 2022, I almost fell out of my chair when I read a small AP story (one paragraph) in the local paper. At the Pentagon, Sec Def Austin and Gen Milley quietly announced they had completed an “intense, exhaustive, thorough investigation” that began in Sept of 2021. They had been investigating the Air Force Crews that operated out of Kabul during the last days of the withdrawal. They decided there was “insufficient evidence to charge the crews with negligent homicide, or manslaughter in the deaths of the Afghans who fell from the landing gear of their planes.” Obviously, Austin and Milley hoped to sacrifice the crews to distract from the role they and Biden, played in the disaster.