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2021-08-26 Afghanistan

Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip abroad

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Might wanna try Cancun next time, if there is a next time.

Posted by Raj 2021-08-26 00:17|| 2021-08-26 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”

― Robert Heinlein

Posted by Too Old To Work 2021-08-26 00:35|| 2021-08-26 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Do I hear wedding bells in their future and lots of dancing boys?

Posted by Gerthudion the Prolific5181 2021-08-26 00:41|| 2021-08-26 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Are regular flights leaving the Airport? If not I think their tickets might be worthless.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-26 00:49|| 2021-08-26 00:49|| Front Page Top

#5
HEY Kids!!
We're going to ~~Disney World~~ the Afghanistan War zone for vacation.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-26 04:04|| 2021-08-26 04:04|| Front Page Top

#6 What sort of parents let their kids' school take them to Afghanistan?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-26 05:21|| 2021-08-26 05:21|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 Woke parents perhaps? To gain a "grassroot understanding" of the local culture in order to make Western society more sensitive about inclusivity, diversity, intersectionality, pyaaz, lehsun etc.

Posted by Rhinemann 2021-08-26 05:51|| 2021-08-26 05:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The story mentions their source is a guy who works with "refugees", so they do sound like transplanted tribals. Not much of a refugee if you feel safe to go back -- they can stay.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-08-26 08:03|| 2021-08-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#9 over a thousand Americans are trapped at the American University of Afghanistan. “It has been able to get only around 50 people out. It needs to get out 1200 more.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 08:30|| 2021-08-26 08:30|| Front Page Top

#10 To be fair, the way California has been with the covid, even I would have found Afghanistan a breath of fresh air.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 10:40|| 2021-08-26 10:40|| Front Page Top

#11 "Whew, glad to be in Kabul where we can take the masks off and do what we want, eat at a restaurant sitting next to each other, talking about life."

-Taliban rolls in-
"Masks on! Get into right clothes! Get into your rooms! No talking!"

"Fuuuuuk, not again."

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 10:43|| 2021-08-26 10:43|| Front Page Top

#12 #2,

You can't fix stupid.

Ron White

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-26 13:04|| 2021-08-26 13:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Can't they get much the same experience at school when the "resource office" hides behind his golf cart after the shooting starts?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 18:46|| 2021-08-26 18:46|| Front Page Top

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