August 21, 2021
"Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time."
Says a security alert just issued by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, quoted in "US Embassy in Afghanistan tells citizens to stay away from Kabul airport" (NY Post).
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And as George Conway just noted; "If only we had started evacuations earlier … we would have had this earlier."
The George Conway link (with video):
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1429090371355693056
1. This slow motion train wreck is far from over.
2. There are multiple intertwined stories to be told.
3. Biden admin attempts to control the messaging is becoming more chaotic and contradictory.
4. All other Biden failures ongoing will eventually be sucked into this vortex of incompetence and overwhelm the media’s ability to navigate a way out that saves Joe’s job.
5. The Catch-25 dilemma will loom larger as we crash through the deadline in just over a week.
Just stay home and wait for the Taliban to show up. They’ll take care of you. One way or another.
American soldiers and marines need to form a phalanx and push back the Taliban. Create a new perimeter.
Did they do this because some Americans in Afghanistan might have believed what Biden said yesterday?
Things change fast. I get that.
But our reactions are slow. Like really slooooooow.
Just heard the Pentagon briefing.
Lots of:
Can't comment on operational issues....
Have no knowledge that there are problems getting to the airport....
Not aware the State Department said do not go to the airport....
Boy are we doing a great job of holding the airport....
Change in mission to go get our people? See above about operational...
So the Pentagon did not know the State Department said don't try to get to the airport. Damning.
The seemingly disinterest in the plight of people, Americans included, might it have something to do with the current status of our beloved superheroes; as less than all powerful, invincible and immortal? I may be grasping at straws here but I don’t think we’re now capable of sustaining the level of interest in as story as we did during the Iran hostage crisis. I may be wrong. I for sure would not want to find out.
I would like to find out why Althouse seems so fixated on it.
So rules must have been broken when 169 Americans were retrieved by the US Military using 3 armed CH-47 Chinook helicopters that flew from the military side of the airport to the Baron Hotel, just 200 yards off the southern side of the airport, in order to collect the Americans and bring them onto the field.
hmmm the Only way out; is by plane
thanx to Jo Biden; there is Only ONE airfield left in the country
That airfield is closed, and to be avoided
GOD Bless Jo Biden! He is a wonderful man!!!!
Jo Biden!! Jo Biden!!! Jo Biden!!!!
triva pool question
come this Sept 11, 2021....
How many American Troops will be in Afghanistan? Will it be More, or Less; than last Sept?
Probably good advice under the circumstances. But the circumstances suck in a spectacular, unforgivably avoidable way.
I am finding it hard to wrap my head around the fact that everyone in charge of this withdrawal apparently assumed there would be plenty of time for orderly evacuation. The critic who says "We had no plan" may be unoriginal, the punchline of a Dilbert strip, but in this case, it appears hope really was ours.
Don't worry American's trapped by the lunatic actions of the democraticals/LLR's/NeoCons! All you have to do is get to the airport to be saved...but of course we dont recommend you do that...but if you did we will save you.
Oh, one other thing, bring $2,000 per person as well, for, you know, to cover the govt expenses.
Or you could just wait it out in hopes of tagging along if/when British or French or German special forces show up to pull their citizens out.
The FBI is going to be working overtime conjuring up new and violent schemes to take the focus off this one.
I'll state that a Mike Pompeo State Dept. answering to Donald Trump would have had a very different look and finish to this process. At this point our current State Department is useless. What is the point and purpose of holding a US passport? What does it do for you?
And who is going to be responsible for the deaths, beatings, and rapes of US citizens in the upcoming days/weeks? Anyone?
There is a bloodbath coming in 2022 and again in 2024.
Drago said...
"Or you could just wait it out in hopes of tagging along if/when British or French or German special forces show up to pull their citizens out."
To be fair; this is comparing Apples to Oranges!
Both the British and the French, as well as the Germans have ARMIES
That is: They can project Military Power.... Unlike the USA
Since the USA has decided to replace its Armed Forces, with Skirt Boy Nancys, we don't Have that option
If we don't already have a military plan taking place without word to the world, then our military is as useless as our State Dept. Either way- both bureaucracies need to be gutted.
Lem,
You don't have to go back to the hostage crisis in Iran, just go back to the Abu Ghraib prison story from Iraq. That led NPR's morning newscast at the top of the hour and every half hour for months. (Or Trump Russia! - that went on for years.)
When the news organizations want the story to be kept before the public, they somehow find a way to do it.
gadfly: "So rules must have been broken when 169 Americans were retrieved by the US Military using 3 armed CH-47 Chinook helicopters that flew from the military side of the airport to the Baron Hotel, just 200 yards off the southern side of the airport, in order to collect the Americans and bring them onto the field."
Duh.
And you can bet that those guys, while beung lauded now by the public, will be moved to the "do not promote" folder behind the scenes.
The Xi/Putin/Biden plan that Team Dem is running with is literally "do nothing and hope the Taliban do nothing" to, in the eyes of the Biden Buffoons, minimize the chance for any confrontation...even as the Brits, Francais and Germans rove into the city to get their people.
What the Biden Buffoons are hoping, and is their priority, is that any Americans that may be killed be killed far away from any TV cameras and any American military eyes so Biden can claim his plan worked.
Thats all they care about. Nothing else.
Which is proven by their demented actual actions compared with normal people in normal governments.
Governments
Not even 24 hours after Joe Biden assured people that if they want to get out of Afghanistan, they will be able to.
The question is whether yesterday's show was typical politician talking-out-of-your-ass BS that Biden has made a career of, or whether he actually believes that. And if the latter, is it because of his hubris that he is the all-knowing expert on everything (again, another career trait), because the intelligence agencies have blown it in briefing him or they just lied to him, or because his addled brain?
""I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or ... that it will be without risk of loss. But as commander in chief, I can assure you that I will mobilize every resource necessary."
Then send patrols out to rendezvous points...
Presents from Uncle Joe:
19 x A-29 Super Tucano close air support attack aircraft
10 x AC-208 attack aircraft
4 x C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
24 x Cessna 208 utility aircraft
18 x Pilatus PC-12 Special mission wing aircraft
95 x Mi-8/17 transport helicopters
8 x Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters
10 x UH-1 Huey helicopters
68 x MD530F light attack helicopters
158 x UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters
55 x T-55/62 main battle tanks
8500 x Humvee’s
634 x M1117 armored cars
173 x M113 armored personnel carriers
155 x MRAP armored cars
1000+ mortars
150 x D30 medium range artillery pieces
104,000 x M16A2 rifles
10,000 x M4 carbines
H/T Eatgrueldog
The State department is saying "don't come to the airport." The Pentagon is saying "the military stays ... while we have operational capability." Should we call the evacuation "Operation Braddock?" See "Retreat from Kabul 1842" for another typical Afghan scenario. (Afghan history is not a secret to the Afghans, only to us with our media and our flashing brilliance of a President)
You are telling people not to go to the airport because of security yet you will not allow the soldiers to go out to provide the security.
Super awesome planning there credentialed government people.
Maybe after American hostages are rounded up we can offer to exchange them. We get the hostages back and we'll return Bowe Bergdahl.
I saw a NY Post elsewhere, "DUMKIRK" with a picture of Joe Biden at the podium.
It would be comical if it weren't tragic, President Biden standing at a podium blurting out obvious lies and half-truths in response to a dangerous situation where we just went through this a year or so ago with President Trump and Covid. Can't anyone here play this game?
The difference is that Trump didn't cause Covid but Biden can't say the same about the chaos in Kabul.
It seems that the president, his administration and the alphabet agencies, are going all in on acting as if they were helpless, and to hell with you for criticizing them. Americans have spent trillions to fund incompetence, dishonesty, and willful ignorance.
They intend to ride this out, more interested in getting back to the normal graft and corruption. The outcome is secondary to what they see as their natural right to rule over us peasants.
this is just the latest failure, going back decades. On both sides of the political aisle.
An alternative ending would be to airdrop the agency heads, political leadership,and support staff, into Kabul. Yes, its fantasy. But nothing will be learned, nothing will change, and no one will be held accountable.
A wise man once said, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."
San Diego's Union Tribune newspaper this morning had a headline that Camp Pendleton Marines were going to be sent to Afghanistan to help with the evacuation.
Since I've read that Afghanistan is the size of Texas, trying to form a phalanx to cover the country is going to take more troops than the US has.
Best case scenario is that this Biden initiated disaster will end by say the end of September with all the Americans now in Afghanistan either evacuated or dead. Things could go downhill from that result--hostages etc. There will be other knock on effects. Trump was said to be very damaging to NATO. Biden's clusterflap will destroy NATO. Daddy Warbucks America is no longer a reliable military partner.
Could the number of U.S. citizens remaining to be evacuated from Afghanistan number in the hundreds rather than in the tens of thousands? Fifteen hundred would be a much smaller problem than fifteen thousand, four hundred much smaller than forty thousand. Here’s the travel advisory we issued on June 28:
“Do not travel to Afghanistan due to COVID-19, crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict. U.S. citizens wishing to depart Afghanistan should leave as soon as possible on available commercial flights.”
I think the ANA may have taken that advisory as their signal to surrender. And the idea of there being be tens of thousands of U.S. citizens still in the country may be being used to persuade the Taliban to keep the Kabul airport open for evacuation of Afghan civilians.
The travel advisory identifies by implication another category of U.S. citizens, those not wishing to depart Afghanistan. That group has grown smaller, as many trying to leave now were presumably in that category on June 28. I wonder how many will stay?
Biden: It's safe to go to the airport!
State Dept: No, its not.
Biden: Al Qaeda is not back in Afghanistan
Pentagon: Yes, it is.
Biden: Its too dangerous to send US troops into the city to get to our citizens.
Britain/France/Germany: No, its not.
Biden: All the allies are thrilled to pieces over how this has gone!
All our allies: No, we're not. In fact, here's a condemnation of you from Parliament.
This list could go on.....and on......and on.......
But you get the drift.
Also, Biden is being chemically attended to as we speak so don't expect to see that cat for about 3 days. It will take that long just to replace a few more hair plugs and administer more botox along with the IV-delivered "alive-ness".
I have yet to identify a single true statement with any meaningful point in all of Biden's "press conference" from yesterday. His own fucking administration is proving his misstatements or lies by the minute. Who the fuck is in charge here? It has to be somebody making the decisions, and if it is Joe Biden, then we are fucked.
There’s an old saying: “He could F up a two-car funeral.” Seems appropriate; grimly so.
I thought Trump would have done this much better, but after listening to George Conway I see that I was deluded.
Yeah, right…
The first or last scenes from various mercenary action flics, The Dogs of War, or The Wild Geese come to mind.
The C-47 rolls down the runway with people running after the open door. one makes it in, many do not, the "good guy" open shoots his left behind friends to prevent them from a worse fate.
The last plane out is going to leave running people and unburied dead on the runway.
Estimates are what?
10k of US cits in Kabul?
50k of notional SIV?
countless others, Western cits?
how many Western NGOs in the countryside?
no matter what, the final Western hostages will be in the thousands. 10x any other experience
How many times has it happened that Americans are trapped in-country after a change of government? I'm seeing Beirut in 2006, and of course Saigon in 1975 (two years after the official U.S. withdrawal). In March-April 1975, a lot of Americans were able to fly out on commercial flights, and then the U.S. military evacuated a lot of people. It sounds like every American who wanted to get out was able to get out.
"As early as the end of March, some Americans were leaving the city.[30] Flights out of Saigon, lightly booked under ordinary circumstances, were full.[31] Throughout April the speed of the evacuation increased, as the Defense Attaché Office (DAO) began to fly out nonessential personnel. Many Americans attached to the DAO refused to leave without their Vietnamese friends and dependents, who included common-law wives and children. It was illegal for the DAO to move these people to American soil, and this initially slowed down the rate of departure, but eventually the DAO began illegally flying undocumented Vietnamese to Clark Air Base in the Philippines.[32]"
"On 3 April, President Gerald Ford announced "Operation Babylift", which would evacuate about 2,000 orphans from the country. One of the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy planes involved in the operation crashed, killing 155 passengers and crew and seriously reducing the morale of the American staff.[6]:157[33] In addition to the over 2,500 orphans evacuated by Babylift, Operation New Life resulted in the evacuation of over 110,000 Vietnamese refugees. The final evacuation was Operation Frequent Wind which resulted in 7,000 people being evacuated from Saigon by helicopter."
Left Bank is now full blown hallucinating brand new "what ifs" as a defense mechanism to avoid precisely the reality that moron Biden voters have wrought.
Left Bank is conjuring up scenarios where Dementia Child-Groper Boy is playing 78-dimension chess!
Brilliant!
Tell us Left Bank, since you've spent the last week telling us Idiot Boy was simply executing Trumps plan, is your hypothetical 78-dimensional-chess scenario something that was part of Trumps plan (ac ording to your week-long lie) or is that a "brilliant" Biden "riff" off the Terrible Orange Man Bad Plan?
Cant have it both ways pal.
Time to make up your mind...such as it is.
"And as George Conway just noted; "If only we had started evacuations earlier … we would have had this earlier."
Yes because gross ineptitude was always the game plan. There was no other choice but to screw the pooch so bad he howls.
And after Kabul, we'll get back to "the moral equivalent of war," the $5 trillion for "infrastructure." But will it sound the same? The moral equivalent of Kabul?
Relax, I've been assured that as part of the predeployment checklist, all of the troops have wills, and up to date training records for Rules of Engagement, and Diversity/equity/inclusion training
Serious Question
This Regime Change isn't going endanger IMPORTANY programs, like Kabul's Drag Queen Story Hour,
Will it?
What are they up to while we're all looking at Afghanistan?
wendybar said...
Presents from Uncle Joe:
19 x A-29 Super Tucano close air support attack aircraft
10 x AC-208 attack aircraft
4 x C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
24 x Cessna 208 utility aircraft
18 x Pilatus PC-12 Special mission wing aircraft
95 x Mi-8/17 transport helicopters
8 x Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters
10 x UH-1 Huey helicopters
68 x MD530F light attack helicopters
158 x UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters
55 x T-55/62 main battle tanks
8500 x Humvee’s
634 x M1117 armored cars
173 x M113 armored personnel carriers
155 x MRAP armored cars
1000+ mortars
150 x D30 medium range artillery pieces
104,000 x M16A2 rifles
10,000 x M4 carbines
H/T Eatgrueldog
"Shoot, a feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas* with all that stuff..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qqfsQGYus
*Remarkably, Slim Pickens' original line was that a fella could have a pretty good weekend in "Dallas" with all that stuff. But in the immediate aftermath of the JFK assassination, Stanley Kubrick redubbed the line and changed it to "Vegas."
This morning I read a news report that the US general in charge of securing Kabul airport admonished the British officer (not a general) leading the rescue of British citizens to knock it off because his successful efforts “were making the US Army look bad.” True or not, what’s damning is that no one thinks it’s implausible.
So when is ABC restart Nightline with the “America held hostage day X” banner?
Big Mike
One of the Brit SAS LTCs advantages. His Ambassador, the direct representative of his Monarch, is there on the runway with him, so he can tell the CG to "Sod off, Swampy!"
The Dems are steadfastly against the death sentence at home, not so much overseas.
The Taliban will gladly sell Biden their American hostages. Remember, Obama paid the Iranians 100 million a piece in cash, four four American hostages.
I'm happy to read in that article that 3800 got out yesterday.
If you wish hard enough, Left Bank, you can get back to Kansas.
That 3800 consisted of who, exactly? I can easily see the Taliban letting through the gates their own preapproved list of Afghanis- in fact, I would do that as a strategy were I in their shoes. What kind of vetting is being done before loading people on a plane? I am guessing very little.
FUBAR.
Who the fuck is in charge here? It has to be somebody making the decisions, and if it is Joe Biden, then we are fucked.
Joe's only important decision is whether to have oatmeal or eggs for breakfast. The Obama folks are making the decisions and Joe is reading the script that they write for him.
We are still fucked.
MM
3800 into 60,000 - 15 more days of Taliban inactivity...
we shipping in food and water?
Big Mike, 12:56:
Tom Rogan didn't mention a source.
I wonder if the request was real but the reason is speculative. If the CG of the 82nd Airborne asks the SAS to stand down, is it because he's worried about looking bad, or is his G3 preparing for running missions, and thinking about making sure their guys don't end up pointing weapons at each other outside the airport?
It's a disgraceful request if the former, and a pretty reasonable one if the latter. And it does make me sad, I can't dismiss as absurd the idea that a U.S. Army two-star would make that request because he's concerned about appearances. I can only hope not, and I'm running low on hope.
Drago:
"And you can bet that those guys, while being lauded now by the public, will be moved to the "do not promote" folder behind the scenes."
Sure. I'd further bet those guys know that and accept it."
" Chuck said...
And as George Conway just noted; "If only we had started evacuations earlier … we would have had this earlier.""
Thank G-d Chuck cleared that up for us.
I see commenters, here, there, everywhere, have removed their covid & vaccine expert lab coats and are now wearing the signature striped pants of foreign policy experts.
wendybar, well, on the plus side, the Taliban have no experience using a lot of that stuff. Especially the aircraft.
If one were to identify a voice in the public domain who had the least amount of relevance in any discussions related to military/geo-political matters it would be someone who never passed up the 14th trip to the buffet per night and was a public face in support of child sex groomers at The Lincoln Pedophile Project: Geotge Conway.
Is it just me or is our resident pro-marxist LLR referencing only members of and defenders of that cauldron of toxic failures at The Lincoln Pedophile Project and The Facebook/Google ForeverWar Bulwark?
And as George Conway just noted; "If only we had started evacuations earlier … we would have had this earlier."
The Taliban blitzkrieg didn't really kick off until early August. They didn't take Kabul until August 16. We announced unconditional withdrawal back on April 15. So there were four months in which SIV applications could have been expedited and American citizens could have been evacuated from Kabul, before the Taliban took control of the streets and the airport entrances. To suggest that we'd have had the current chaos whether the Taliban were in control or not seems highly implausible.
As I've commented before, though, I don't really hold Biden primarily responsible for this mess. Blinken and Milley should absolutely resign in disgrace, but more than either of them I think this is a failure of the working level civil service to execute the President's policy in a minimally competent fashion.
That said, perhaps Conway's point is actually that with the garbage experts and civil servants who staff State and Defense today, there's no scenario in which any large scale evacuation isn't a total disaster.
And I guess that's not totally unreasonable.
Conversely, if our experts and civil servants were actually good at their jobs, we probably wouldn't be facing quite as much of a mess as we are today.
Bob Boyd: "What are they up to while we're all looking at Afghanistan?"
Bremmer has a preemptive column out today explaining why the Iraq operation is all peaches and cream because of all the institutional and historical differences between Iraq and Afghanistan.
I suspect that all the defense contractor revenue/tax dollar laundering back to establishment "wunderkind"/self-anointed "elites" streams that will be redirected thru Iraq operations with potential expansions in Syria, Yemen etc.
Not to mention how Bidens/democraticals love affair with Iran's Mad Mullahs provides opportunities via European firms and subsidiaries.
Have the Biden admin considered that the mere presence by an Afghan inside the Airport perimeter is a death sentence for any left behind?
Thousands will be taking premature dirt naps because of this disconnected prick in the White House.
updating my
triva pool question
come this Sept 11, 2021....
How many American Troops will be in Afghanistan? Will it be More, or Less; than last Sept?
Camp Pendleton Marines deploy to Kabul, Pentagon says evacuations will increase
We are now getting reports the taliban have cut off the airport and are confiscating American passports.
Hey Left Bank, I cant wait for your next cultish-take on how this represents either a complete failure of Orange Man Bad's plan or the Mostest Brillianty 78-dimensional Chess-move ploy by vaunted military planning genius Biden.
Truth be told I will enjoy it even more if you argue both positions simultaneously!
Having read your posts for several years now I am certain you are up for that challenge!
Conway must be pretty dumb and unimaginative. The weakest thriller writer could have come up with ten scenarios. For one:
1. Today, Beiden declares a surge to support Afghanistan and moves in 10,000 troops with Seal teams and SF.
2. Tells taliban leaders that as generals of a warring army they will be personally responsible for atrocities and women killing, Seals will arrest them dead or alive.
3. Afghan government army told to put up or shutup. Gets 60 days to act to control Afghanistan.
4. US troops collect and control arms in guarded bunkers. Arms issued to Afghan army as needed and inventoried, stored arms, vehicles, and aircraft contain radio detonated Thermite grenades.
5. US cuts civilian contracts slowly reducing worker count, US embassy has huge Christmas party and says all Americans should attend. Same for allied nations.
6. day after Christmas civilian evac starts. Excess weapons blown or removed. Troops with AC 130 and A 10 support enforce a red perimeter around Kabul. If satellites see columns of taliban in the red line shoot them up.
7. When all Allied and US and worthy Afghans are gone, crater all the runways with radio mines and we are gone.
Something smarter than this could have worked.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
Could the number of U.S. citizens remaining to be evacuated from Afghanistan number in the hundreds rather than in the tens of thousands?
Well, given the gross incompetence of the Biden* Administration, anything is possible.
Is it likely? Only if the Taliban has areal killed thousands of Americans.
“Do not travel to Afghanistan due to COVID-19, crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict. U.S. citizens wishing to depart Afghanistan should leave as soon as possible on available commercial flights.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the Biden* Administration in action! Your worries about Afghanistan, then said about 7 weeks ago are, in order:
1: Covid
2: Crim
3: Terrorism (note: attacks by the government, which the Taliban now is, or even just operating military forces, aren't what's meant by "terrorism" here)
4: Kidnapping (by lone criminals)
5: Armed conflict
So they need to get to 5th and last before they mention the threat from the Taliban.
I'm so glad that the adults are in charge now, and we have experts to handle things!
I think the ANA may have taken that advisory as their signal to surrender. And the idea of there being be tens of thousands of U.S. citizens still in the country may be being used to persuade the Taliban to keep the Kabul airport open for evacuation of Afghan civilians.
Wow, so what you're saying is that you think the Biden* Administration's incompetence caused teh ANA to collapse faster than it otherwise would have?
So glad we agree on something.
But eh idea that the Biden* Administration spokes drones would work to make themselves look even more incompetent, just so they can get out the Afghan civilians who they've previously shown to not give a shit about?
Dude, drugs are bad for you
Even the Guardian is calling out the Installed *President and his All-Star Team Of Incompetents for lying about what was said between the US Installed *President and Macron.
Macron emphasized the moral necessity of getting allied personnel out of Afghanistan no matter the cost......and the idiot Biden team submitted a "readout" that made absolutely sure not to mention any moral requirement to retrieve our people.
This is another reason why this story isn't going anywhere because in just 7 months, even though the US Installed *President unconditionally surrendered economically across the board to the Russians, ChiComs, Iranians and the EU, he has now made the EU leaders look like the schmucks that they are for having trusted Gropey McEarpiece.
The Drill SGT: "Have the Biden admin considered that the mere presence by an Afghan inside the Airport perimeter is a death sentence for any left behind?"
The Howard & LLR Chuck "braintrust" have already explained that these will be "relatively peaceful" death sentences, which will not be "officially reported" anywhere which, according to Left Bank, means they dont count.
I just watched an interview w Secretary Austin on ABC. What an empty suit. He reminds me of Perd Hapley from Parks and Recreation. But this comedy is killing people. We need an adult in the room right now.
Blogger MikeD said...I see commenters, here, there, everywhere, have removed their covid & vaccine expert lab coats and are now wearing the signature striped pants of foreign policy experts.
Right, because, god forbid, people offer their opinions on the internet. Given the track record of our foreign policy experts, I should hope they do better than that.
I still find it interesting that people here think this is not all going precisely according to plan.
The people running this knew this would happen. Milley and Austin are retards. The people pumping Biden full of amphetamines are not. They want the US to be humiliated.
The people that made this happen are working on selling Taiwan and Israel out as we speak.
Taiwan needs to set off a test nuke and save their people from betrayal.
Biden's puppet masters mean for us to go to war with China and for us to lose that war.
NBC is reporting that the threat is from ISIS. Great.
I'm just saying 3800 > 0, and I'm happy for those souls who were evacuated. Although the point of Who they are, exactly, is a good one.
So rules must have been broken when 169 Americans were retrieved by the US Military using 3 armed CH-47 Chinook helicopters that flew from the military side of the airport to the Baron Hotel,
I took Biden’s comment that there would be no helicopters plucking Americans off roof tops as hyperbolic rhetoric and not a rule.
Credible threat from ISIS?
was no other choice
joe had to screw that canine
and so bad he howled
If one were quite conspiracy minded one might think that the string of astonishing, galactic-scale screwups by the Installed *"President" and his moron staff were simply too much to believe and that the administration was moving in a purposefully neglectful way.....
.....almost as if some higher power, say the ChiComs, were very very worried that the entire world, which already believes by majority sensibility, that the Wuhan virus was created in a Wuhan lab and was funded by American "elites" who were selling the US down the river, for a fee, and this entire Afghanistan episode was meant to cover up the US funded/ChiCom delivered man-made virus that has killed millions and crushed the global economy.........
BTW, how is that end of August deadline for the Biden Hoax "report out" on the ChiCom virus origins coming along?.........
Some commenters appear to take comfort in the idea that the Taliban can’t use or maintain sophisticated military equipment
I believe that Chinese, Russian, and Pakistani technicians will assist them and they will quickly get up to speed. Also, they have something with market value to trade.
I'm pretty sure our commander's comment about making us look bad was blackly humorous. The man is still there on the ground when he could be back in Tampa.
Amadeus 48 said...
Some commenters appear to take comfort in the idea that the Taliban can’t use or maintain sophisticated military equipment
I believe that Chinese, Russian, and Pakistani technicians will assist them and they will quickly get up to speed. Also, they have something with market value to trade.
8/21/21, 8:55 PM
You don’t need a lot of training to operate the complex machinery, only to operate it effectively. They can also afford to loose 50 or 75 percent of that equipment while figuring it out. That still leaves a lot of mad men in charge of a lot of very dangerous equipment.
Badri 313 unit in charge of Kabul..... SF unit. Yes some well trained Tailban.
I suspect all of Afghanistan will be one US civilian hostage camp soon. Try to free 500 of 'em and they will kill a few thousand around the country.
This will make the Iranian hostage crisis seem like small potatoes.
Thanks Biden & Harris.... thanks a bunch.
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