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2021-08-18 Government Corruption

Psaki WON'T commit to evacuating all US citizens trapped in Afghanistan after August 31 withdrawal deadline amid Taliban takeover: Up to 40,000 Americans remain with warlords firing on crowds at Kabul airport

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-18 04:46|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 LOL the new Iranian hostage crisis.

What did any of these Americans think, anyway? The State Department has a long history of treating Americans abroad like trash. They are regarded as either fugitives from justice or tax evaders. They did the same thing during the Wuhan virus crisis. Other countries sent planes to bring their nationals home, free of charge. State washed their hands of American citizens and abandoned them. $1 trillion for war, not one cent for the little people.

Posted by Cleaque Hatrack2665 2021-08-18 05:48|| 2021-08-18 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 That number just doesn't seem right.

Posted by Unosh Hupinelet8756 2021-08-18 06:24|| 2021-08-18 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm going to get hammered for "blaming the victims." So be it. The ones trapped there who went to make their fortunes by siphoning USAID and other "development" money, the conflict tourists, the ones trying to bust into the drug trade, let them find their own ways out.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 08:30|| 2021-08-18 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Jo(k)e always was competitive, I guess he's determined to show that Jimmy Carter a thing or two when it comes to hostages.

Posted by Cesare 2021-08-18 08:30|| 2021-08-18 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 I forgot. The ones that went for "dancing boys," I hope they don't make it out at all.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 08:31|| 2021-08-18 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 We are all being held hostage to leftist totalitarian fever dreams and Soros-style "open society" horror shows.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 08:33|| 2021-08-18 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 ^The idea of "World policeman" comes from Soros?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 08:38|| 2021-08-18 08:38|| Front Page Top

#8 No, G, world policeman is a hubris we cooked up here in America for ourselves. Then the neocons and Soros types figured out how to co-opt it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 08:43|| 2021-08-18 08:43|| Front Page Top

#9 What actual conservitives in the US need to do is discredit the "R2P" nonsense with the same verve we put into stomping CRT. Ask R2P zealots this: "Where is the rest of the world's R2P Americans from their exported drugs, exported criminals, exported illiterate welfare leeches, exported bad politics and exported "quaint cultural customs?"

Silence...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 08:47|| 2021-08-18 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 How much effort did those mini skirted girls in Kabul in the 70s from the picture yesterday put into protecting their own futures to be free individuals? Apparently not nearly enough...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 08:50|| 2021-08-18 08:50|| Front Page Top

#11 What actual conservitives in the US need to do is discredit the "R2P" nonsense with the same verve we put into stomping CRT

Definition of verve
1a: the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : VIVACITY
b: ENERGY, VITALITY
😒

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 08:51|| 2021-08-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#12 OK. Conviction then. Seriousness of purpose.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 09:05|| 2021-08-18 09:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Seriousness of purpose

Exactly my point. Ignoring basic reality (20% difference in IQ) is NOT serious.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 09:07|| 2021-08-18 09:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Reality is that thing that does not go away when you ignore it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 09:23|| 2021-08-18 09:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Suspect. I cannot believe there are 40000 Americans left behind while thousands of Afghans have made it out. Somebody is lying. As usual.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 10:02|| 2021-08-18 10:02|| Front Page Top

#16

Posted by Phaque Anguish4404 2021-08-18 10:14|| 2021-08-18 10:14|| Front Page Top

#17 I find the 40K number to be bizarre as well. Direct employees of the sprawling US bureaucracy and their dependents certainly... but US Citizens???

Posted by magpie 2021-08-18 11:46|| 2021-08-18 11:46|| Front Page Top

#18 I refer back to my comment #3. I don't have any problem believing there are lots of people with US passports (as opposed to Americans in the sense of people who believe in America nad the American idea) in Afghanistan. Think of fat, black flies buzzing over a fresh turd...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 11:53|| 2021-08-18 11:53|| Front Page Top

#19 Maybe these are wannabe American citizens, Afghans pegged to be ever grateful blue voters still negotiating the buy in. At this point, who knows?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 12:03|| 2021-08-18 12:03|| Front Page Top

#20 Sent to me by a former colleague:

"NICE JOB JOE"

Afghanistan was stable and we had enough troops there to monitor what was going on. Almost all of the fighting was being handled by the Afghan military.

US casualties for the last five years had fallen dramatically as a result. In 2020 we lost 9, in 2019 we lost 22, in 2018 we lost 15, in 2017 we lost 17 and in 2016 we lost 14. Many of these losses were not the result of combat but admittedly tragic just the same. However, the loss of 77 Americans over 5 years pales in comparison to the over 3000 we lost in a single day to allegedly the same damn terrorists we just turned the country back over to.

The idea to pull out completely whether it was Trump's plan or Biden's execution has turned out to be a catastrophe that, I believe, will haunt us for decades and maybe longer. As a result of Biden's lack of planning and execution and probable self-fulfilling need to be out of Afghanistan by September 11th, people will die in mass. Some will be Americans. Some will be tortured and executed in the streets because that is the Taliban way. For the remainder of my life, every execution I see on TV, every terrorist act, every rape, enslavement or forced marriage coming out of Afghanistan will be at the hands of Joe Biden. And remember, what you see through the media will be a small fraction of the atrocities committed. Joe now has blood on his hands and, as I see it, that will be his lasting legacy, Tonight I pray for the Afghan people. My heart goes out to them especially their women and young ladies and girls. Their promising future, their whole world has been torn apart by the self-serving decisions of none other than the President of the United States, Joe Biden. I say again "NICE JOB JOE".

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-18 12:19|| 2021-08-18 12:19|| Front Page Top

#21 I can easily believe there are a lot of idiots in the aforementioned categories, but 40K makes me skeptical. Unless there was some really crazy stuff going on that we don't know about...

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-18 12:40|| 2021-08-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#22 More magic numbers, which, if you don't accept without question, you are a QANON domestic terrorist and must be liquidated.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 13:49|| 2021-08-18 13:49|| Front Page Top

#23 That number makes absolutely no sense. Seeing how people actually shat themselves when Green Beans showed up at Bagram, I searched fast food Kabul Afghanistan, and I don't see that result mash.

Latest spinball: we should be putting aside our disagreements and anxieties and rallying around the flag like the second plane just hit.

Me: you did it backwards. Things come at you from behind when you go backwards. Your pronouns are dum/fuks.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-18 14:30|| 2021-08-18 14:30|| Front Page Top

#24 And these are people who saw Bagram abandoned like a two legged puppy and were like, "It'll be fine."

I'm not wishing them harm, and I"m sure they are just as stoked about all the people high-fiving the 650 Afghans hitching a US Military plane ride rather than them, especially after You Got Mail: you're on your own. Embassy App. How red of a flag do you need?

And if it were a serious military effort, why didn't we bomb all that abandoned equipment before it became mounted and used in an attack. Wouldn't that be an easier kill? So what was bombed during 'Big Day of Air Strikes!'?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-18 14:41|| 2021-08-18 14:41|| Front Page Top

#25 Had Supreme Leader Trump really commented on Rantburg?? ✪ ω ✪

Posted by Wren 2021-08-18 15:02|| 2021-08-18 15:02|| Front Page Top

#26 What is R2P?

Posted by Sgt.D.T. 2021-08-18 18:41|| 2021-08-18 18:41|| Front Page Top

#27 R2P == Responsibility to Protect

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-18 18:43|| 2021-08-18 18:43|| Front Page Top

#28
Wow, I can't believe it, a new Ben & Jerry's flavor ice cream -

Afghan Joe's Crump Crumblier

Get Me Some !!!

Posted by Blossom Flomomble2114 2021-08-18 22:00|| 2021-08-18 22:00|| Front Page Top

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