Posted on 08/26/2021 5:58:54 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
After President Joe Biden's withdrawal of all U.S. troops by Aug. 31, the U.S. will continue to help U.S. citizens and residents and Afghans who worked with Americans or are otherwise at risk from the Taliban get out of the country, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
But it's unclear how that will be possible after the U.S. cedes control of the airport to the Taliban and ends evacuation flights -- and it will mean leaving thousands of Afghans that the administration had previously said they would help behind.
Biden and Blinken have each said that the U.S. is "on track to complete our mission" before that Aug. 31 deadline, without specifying what the administration considers the scope of that mission -- including how many Afghans they will evacuate.
In contrast, Blinken detailed how many Americans the U.S. has evacuated -- some 4,500 to date -- and how many the administration believes are left behind -- 500 with whom the State Department has made contact with and up to 1,000 more who registered with the embassy.
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File the articles of impeachment.
Never give up the con.
As the Republicans said yesterday, our troops should hold the airport open as long as we need to get our people, our allies people and those that assisted us out.
If the Taliban doesn’t like it, we start the aerial bombing without mercy
It is sickening to see Biden cower to the Taliban for a date that Biden chose for political purposes.
Anywhere Biden goes, he needs to be met with catcalls and turned backs.
You can’t get them out without AIRFIELDS... period.
Kandahar, Bagram, Dwyer are all stood down. Biden surrenders Kabul to the goatf**ers this weekend.
Where do you launch ops from after that? Nevermind refueling.
Our people can’t even head for the borders...that’s Iran and Pakistan, if they’re not dead on their way there.
Lying to our faces again. These people need to BURN.
Any deadline for the release of the hostages will come from their Taliban captors.
Biden’s subordinates openly contradicting him. They’re is a movement to unseat this man. Hide and watch. lol
They are packing stuff up and flying it out as we speak. Last plane out could be Sunday.
“..These people need to BURN...”
Arrested, tried, sentenced, then publicly hanged first.....and then burned with their ashes dumped in a sewage treatment plant and their names never spoken of again....ever.
Glenn Beck is in an “undisclosed arab country” right now reporting that Kabul airport is closed, military being evacuated AND all of our embassy workers are being left behind. As far as he knows, the kids and parents from California are still stranded in Afghanistan. Americans being told to leave the airport.
IMO Biden WANTS the Taliban to have American human shields so he can rationalize not attacking them when they go crazy on their people.
Biden surrendered to a rag tag army of guys who ride in the backs of pickups with automatic weapons. And on top of that, left all of our vehicles, weapons and computers behind as a gift.
This is were we are folks.
Agreed.
IMO Biden WANTS the Taliban to have American human shields so he can rationalize not attacking them when they go crazy on their people.
He was saying this last night. Did he say it again this morning?
Even this writer (ABC-D) understands that much.
Lara Logan is saying clearance not being granted to planes landing. Ground operators are livid at what they are being ordered to do.
We'll be out by this weekend.
My money's on Friday in the dead of night (technically Sat. morning) He has the advantage of the Friday night news dump.
That wouldn't surprise me. Apparently there are a handful of ISIS K in the area so he is moving fast.
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