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2021-08-24 Afghanistan

Adam Schiff warns it's 'unlikely' Biden will rescue all Americans and Afghan allies before August 31 deadline after classified briefing: US military tells president to decide on extension TODAY or risk leaving troops behind

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Posted by Javiter Omater2753 2021-08-24 02:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 Biden is going to get our troops killed.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-24 05:03|| 2021-08-24 05:03|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Entirely too damned late.

The Taliban holds every single card, and they're going to play them. What's coming next will make the Iran Hostage crisis look like a recess spat among preschoolers.

Retaking Bagram isn't an option at all at this point - we could take the place back in a straightforward enough manner, but the most we could get in there would be a thousand or so troops. It would be surrounded within hours, and the balance would simply get worse with every passing hour. Karzai IAP is worse - it's surrounded by tens of thousands of civilians and thousands of Taliban who we can't tell apart - Talibs, by the by, who are already using children as human shields. I would be very surprised if the Talibs don't have mortars already set up to close the runway if they feel it's time, and there will be nothing we can do about it. Right now, that place is a high tech Dien Bien Phu.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-24 06:05|| 2021-08-24 06:05|| Front Page Top

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-24 06:16|| 2021-08-24 06:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike gets it right at #2. The only likely outcome short of significant major bloodshed is some sort of negotiated financial arrangement. Yes, the TB hold the cards and it is very likely they have all sorts of advisors telling them how to play them.

Warring, banditry, and extortion have always been their game. The two choices now appear to be pay up, or kill very one of the worthless thieving bastids.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-24 06:56|| 2021-08-24 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5

Watch as the DEEP STATE starts to show itself.

Any bets of how long Uncle Joe has?
I say between Jan. 14th and Jan. 21st 2022

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-24 07:20|| 2021-08-24 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ He's lasted much longer than I thought he would. Yes, very interesting times ahead.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-24 07:22|| 2021-08-24 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Mike is absolutely right. I think they'll make some noise especially after 31 AUG. But, sadly, I think we all know what date they are waiting for to launch some kind of dramatic atrocity.

Posted by Cesare 2021-08-24 08:42|| 2021-08-24 08:42|| Front Page Top

#8 #5 Watch as the DEEP STATE starts to show itself.

Posted by NN2N1

The "Deep State" is incompetent...all they can manage is to leak a bit of classified information to try to sway an election. They were incompetent in Iraq, in Afghanistan, with China...and with Joe. If Joe is to be removed, it will be by his own hand or by cut throat politics...and the left doesn't have the nerve to take their boy out of office...IMO Joe will hang on to the bitter end.

Posted by Tennessee 2021-08-24 08:58|| 2021-08-24 08:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Schifferbrains: "If we can't ex post facto impeach Trump, I don't see anything of value here..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-24 09:59|| 2021-08-24 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 He's going to last as long as he has a pulse. The bureaucracy (who are the ones really running the country) love him to pieces. He never interferes with their workings and will do whatever they tell him.

Posted by Tom 2021-08-24 11:36|| 2021-08-24 11:36|| Front Page Top

#11 I heard of today a young medical graduate from Annapolis waiting to be shuttled out.He is not at Kabul. Americas finest in the hands of absolute fools.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-24 13:31|| 2021-08-24 13:31|| Front Page Top

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