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Afghanistan
Screw Biden: CIA and US Troops Are Conducting Rescue Operations to Evacuate Stranded Americans
2021-08-26
[Town Hall] The Taliban has set up checkpoints around the airport in Kabul. You can’t get to it. It’s not easy. Americans are having their passports seized. They’re being beaten by Taliban forces. It’s not safe. On top of this fiasco, al-Qaeda and ISIS are on the hunt as well. Everything that Biden has said about Afghanistan has been refuted by EVERYONE, including liberal media outlets. It’s a disaster—and Joe seems to be more concerned about build back better. That’s all you need to know about how much Joe cares; he doesn’t.

With Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
lost in space and Americans still trapped, US forces, what’s left of them, and the CIA are conducting risky rescue operations to bring our people home (via WSJ):

The Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military are conducting extraction operations to evacuate Americans using helicopters and ground troops as the window begins to close for rescuing all people at risk in Afghanistan.

The CIA has launched clandestine operations to rescue Americans in and outside of Kabul in recent days, according to U.S. and other officials. The missions are using American military helicopters but under the operation and control of the CIA, a typical arrangement in such operations.

A congressional source knowledgeable about the evacuation effort said U.S. troops had gone into Kabul on joint missions with other allies to designated locations where they have picked up U.S. citizens, green-card holders, and Afghans who hold special visas for helping the U.S. military.
Posted by:Gerthudion the Prolific5181

#13  they should learn to read the news.
Posted by: Chris   2021-08-26 17:04  

#12  I have read news snippets all over the net from various US citizen Afghans who were visiting relatives in Afghanistan 15 August. Apparently they thought their visits were safe.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-08-26 15:45  

#11  #9...That is correct Frank.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2021-08-26 11:01  

#10   Chaldean Central

Iraqi Christians? Were they going as missionaries or set up schools and health clinics?
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-08-26 10:22  

#9  Cajon Valley School District is Chaldean Centralâ„¢, not Aghani
Posted by: Frank G   2021-08-26 07:49  

#8  I kind of question how much of an American these people really are. I mean are they 'American' in the sense that Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are 'Americans', forever with an allegiance to a foreign power?
There's got to be a reason that they were in Afghanistan to begin with. Notwithstanding the imbecilic school that sent students there for a summer trip.
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-08-26 07:13  

#7  Look for the joint chiefs to investigate this insubordination and punish these folks
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2021-08-26 07:13  

#6  Unless there is some unspecified reason for fetching these particular people...

Asset recovery.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-26 06:06  

#5  Biden is not in charge in AFG, or much of anything else. The CIA (shadow gov't) has always been in charge of this conflict. The Department of Defense, the historical nemesis of the CIA, played a clearing and support role. The Agency was instrumental in convincing the Russians to leave. They were the first people back in. They will be the last people out.

While certainly encouraged to see it happen, I am hesitant to attribute the rescue of Americans outside the wire to CIA altruism.

This could be part of it:

Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip abroad
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-26 03:12  

#4  Given the previous posture of our government, I'm a bit skeptical of this story. Unless there is some unspecified reason for fetching these particular people...
Posted by: SteveS   2021-08-26 02:17  

#3  Biden hates the American people. They did not vote him in democratically. Only 10 people ever showed up at his rallies. He just hates them.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-08-26 02:16  

#2  Hopefully the Taliban and Pakistan’s ISI don’t read the conservative press.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-08-26 00:23  

#1  Nice to know that our guys are doing the right thing.
Posted by: Raj   2021-08-26 00:19  

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