They could take out a few loaded planes with little repercussions, and the White House would just deflect.
Nailed it. Hell, let everyone leave. Let all the civilians, aid workers, reporters, etc leave. Free and safe passage.
Last two C17s, loaded with GIs. Blow those things out of the air and nothing will happen.
At least there are no more mean tweets and germany and france (the world) likes us now