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Rampant Taliban ransack the palatial home of top Afghan warlord and US ally General Dostum amid claims fighters have reached the outskirts of Kabul which will fall in HOURS while Brits and Americans evacuate
Daily Mail UK ^ | 14 Aug 2021 | Tom Pyman

Posted on 08/14/2021 9:32:50 PM PDT by blueplum

Insurgents tightened grip on Afghanistan by capturing Mazar-e-Sharif - a heavily defended city in the north

Fighters were then filmed raiding the luxurious home of infamous warlord Army Marshal Rashid Dostum

In a statement last night, US President Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan army for the carnage

He said he 'will not pass this war onto a fifth president' and criticsed the Afghan Army for failing to fight

Taliban fighters have invaded the palatial home of top Afghan warlord and US ally and videoed themselves lounging on his gold furniture and inspecting his golden tea set - as their advance closes on capital Kabul amid a scramble to get Westerners out.

General Rashid Dostum's home is in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif which fell to the Taliban yesterday and now there are claims that the advancing fighters have reached the outskirts of Kabul.

Dostum was a key US ally during the 20 year campaign against the Taliban and famously fought with the Special Forces 'horse soldiers' shortly after 9/11.

...In a statement last night, Biden blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan army for the carnage and said his predecessor cut a deal that left the warlords 'in the strongest position militarily since 2001'.

He said: One more year, or five more years, of US military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; asshole; bidenswaterloo; blamegame; foreignpolicy; kabul; military; stupidasshole
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what was that Biden's admin said yesterday - it would take 90 days for Kabul to fall? well surprise!
1 posted on 08/14/2021 9:32:50 PM PDT by blueplum
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Biden said that you need F15’s and nukes to defeat the US military junta so I’m puzzled as to why flip flop wearing goat herders are rapidly approaching the US embassy in Kabul.


2 posted on 08/14/2021 9:35:12 PM PDT by LumberJack53213
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90 minutes?


3 posted on 08/14/2021 9:35:25 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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another DM breaking headline just now:
“Taliban take over Jalalabad just 80 miles from Kabul and warn US to cease airstrikes or else extremist fighters will descend on the Afghan capital before ‘more than 10,000’ Americans are able to evacuate”


4 posted on 08/14/2021 9:36:22 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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Blaming your predecessor—that is what true leadership looks like!

;-)


5 posted on 08/14/2021 9:36:46 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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6 posted on 08/14/2021 9:38:30 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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This collapse is happening so much faster than what happened to South Vietnam in 1975, it’s astonishing.


7 posted on 08/14/2021 9:40:29 PM PDT by Jay W
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Biden is facing a political catastophre. He of course is blaming Trump.He takes no blame for abandoning entire airbases in the dead of night and the abandonment of tons of military equipment, guns and ammunition to be seized by the Taliban. Now he is sending 5,000 brave young American soldiers and Marines ostensibly to aid in the evacuation of the embassy and other Americans. The reality is that these troops are now a garrison for Kabul. Their mission will be to preserve the fiction of the Afghan government and try to prevent carnage and blood fest photo ops which will be embarassing to the Biden cabal. Once again American blood will be shed on hehalf of vile, wothless politicians.


8 posted on 08/14/2021 9:43:50 PM PDT by allendale
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Biden is facing a political catastophre. He of course is blaming Trump.He takes no blame for abandoning entire airbases in the dead of night and the abandonment of tons of military equipment, guns and ammunition to be seized by the Taliban. Now he is sending 5,000 brave young American soldiers and Marines ostensibly to aid in the evacuation of the embassy and other Americans. The reality is that these troops are now a garrison for Kabul. Their mission will be to preserve the fiction of the Afghan government and try to prevent carnage and blood fest photo ops which will be embarassing to the Biden cabal. Once again American blood will be shed on hehalf of vile, wothless politicians.


9 posted on 08/14/2021 9:43:54 PM PDT by allendale
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South Vietnam at least tried to fight. Literally nobody in the Afghan Army did.


10 posted on 08/14/2021 9:46:09 PM PDT by Shadow44
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Countdown to George Bushie, Colin Powell, Susan Rice, and John Kerry defending weakster Biden.

Cause that’s what they do,

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11 posted on 08/14/2021 9:46:56 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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Quite a few Americans got rich off of this scam.


12 posted on 08/14/2021 9:48:04 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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Buy-DUNG 5shits on the grave of every fallen U.S. warrior of the Afghan campaign.
13 posted on 08/14/2021 9:49:12 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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I seriously don't get leaving tons of equipment unless everything is gps’d for future target practice, like I suggested 2 years ago.

Our troops could have had some stress-relief fun blowing bunkers and maintenance bays full of vehicles like the 4th on steroids. But nooooo

14 posted on 08/14/2021 9:49:59 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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Biden and their Administration will never take responsibility for their obvious decisions and actions.....they don’t need to...who’s holding them to account?


15 posted on 08/14/2021 9:50:00 PM PDT by caww ( )
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Ok, ladies, pack up your stockings, lipstick and skirts, General Milley has ordered us out of here and over to DC to guard Pelosi and AOC who says her life is being threatened by a handful of protesters armed with American flags. No worries, the new Biden military is the wokest military in the world. I’m sure that the gender fluid troops will find a warm welcome in the Kabul Prison system.


16 posted on 08/14/2021 9:50:22 PM PDT by LumberJack53213
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Prayers needed for our people trapped there, and for the out-numbered troops being rushed in to protect them. I’m sure our people remained this long only because they weren’t warned this was likely to happen this quickly.

Afghanistan was never a country. It’s a set of lines on a map which enclose various tribal territories. Most in that region give first allegiance to their tribe. Invading was like stepping on a rake, and the handle has been smashing our national face ever since.


17 posted on 08/14/2021 9:52:30 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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bluster from the paper tiger which the USA federal gov, which is only supported by American/European globalists/marxists and greatly defied by the nationalists in the West.


18 posted on 08/14/2021 9:54:02 PM PDT by Levy78
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The Taliban is just a bunch of “Dog faced Pony soldiers”.

Says the grifter banker from Delaware.


19 posted on 08/14/2021 9:54:09 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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George W Bush quickly pivoted from Afghanistan to Iraq because Afghanistan had been “won” and it was time to move on to the next war. What exactly is his legacy now, now that Afghanistan is back to its pre 911 days?


20 posted on 08/14/2021 9:55:02 PM PDT by libh8er
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