Pentagon officials were more “frustrated” about the Secretary of Defense not signing the “Climate Adaption Plan” than they were about the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, where countless American servicemen and civilians still were
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Emails show that the Pentagon was preoccupied with climate policies during the days of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left thousands of Americans and Afghan allies trapped and at the mercy of the Taliban.
In “the two weeks between the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, and the final U.S. military flight out of Afghanistan on August 30, Pentagon officials were scrambling with the White House to finalize the Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan,” wrote The Daily Wire’s Brent Scher on Wednesday. --- More...
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