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2021-08-25 Afghanistan

Number of Americans rescued in AFG... 'inexplicably vague'

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-25 05:52|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Inexplicable to some possibly, but surely as designed. Accountability requires some sort of metrics. Without accurate metrics, there is no method of accounting, or accountability.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-25 05:55|| 2021-08-25 05:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Magic numbers, always meant to be fluid. Goalposts moving, etc.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 06:22|| 2021-08-25 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 If they can't tell you how many crossed the southern 'border' last week, how would you expect them to know what they're going half way around the world?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-25 07:04|| 2021-08-25 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 But they can overbook their commercial flights here in the US and toss you if your mask doesn't fit correctly.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 07:28|| 2021-08-25 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 We're in "...If a tree falls in the forest..." territory here. If they leave thousands of Americans behind but nobody from the Administration admits it (and God knows the media will lose their interest in this story at some point)...did they really leave thousands of Americans behind?

Posted by Crusader 2021-08-25 10:12|| 2021-08-25 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 How did a couple thousand troops need 32,000 "interpreters?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 11:15|| 2021-08-25 11:15|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Americans of all sorts threw a lot of money around in Afghanistan. The Americans who were throwing the money didn't care because it wasn't their money. And they certainly didn't think about consequences.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-25 12:10|| 2021-08-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Who are all those "Americans" and why were they there in the first place?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2021-08-25 14:27|| 2021-08-25 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 As best I can put it together, the current truth is that (1) the August 31 deadline is no longer a deadline like it was just yesterday and (2) "as many as" 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan. That comes from Al-Graudian's live feed here. You get the impression that the regime runs a focus group every couple of hours and adjusts the truth according to the focus group results.

Posted by Matt 2021-08-25 16:39|| 2021-08-25 16:39|| Front Page Top

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