Posted on 08/28/2021 7:52:03 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The fathers of two Marines killed in Thursday’s suicide attack at Kabul’s international airport have expressed outrage at the US government’s handling of the withdrawal of American forces, with one claiming that President Biden “turned his back” on his murdered son.
“They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the Taliban outside providing security,” Steve Nikoui, the father of Kareem Nikoui, told The Daily Beast. “I blame my own military leaders … Biden turned his back on him. That’s it.”
Steve Nikoui told the website that he was notified of his son’s death by a group of Marines who showed up on his doorstep Thursday evening. The elder Nikoui said he had stayed home from work after hearing the news of Thursday’s attack and had been “glued to the TV” waiting for any word of his son.
Nikoui said the Marines who delivered the dreaded news were “more choked up than me.”
“I was actually trying to console them,” he said. “But at the same time, I just wanted them to get out as soon as possible so that no one from my family came back and saw them. I thought it appropriate that I be able to tell them.”
Before being sent over to Afghanistan, Kareem Nikoui had been stationed at Camp Pendleton, near his family’s Southern California home. Steve Nikoui recalled that his son regularly made trips home on weekends, often bringing “10 or 15 other Marines” with him…
In Missouri, the father of 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz told radio station KMOX Friday he was “incredibly devastated” by his son’s death...
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The brass is the better target. More effective.
An emotional and spiritual nightmare I can’t fathom. Prayer alert.
The mother who lost her son and called into a radio station absolutely broke my heart.
make them pay at the ballot box-NOT 1 democrat gets elected in 2022!!! THrow the bums out!
If you’re a Marine, there is no such thing as, you’re just a Paper Pusher. Every US Marine is a Rifleman. That said, this is a heartbreaking needless tragedy.
Taliban as Security for our men in the field? Are you shitting me? A depleted force of too few behind a pathetic fence around a very vulnerable public airport?
The most secure airfield in that God Foresaken country shut down months ago?
American citizens not evacuated well before the drawdown?
Billions of Dollars in American Military Equipment left in the field before the drawdown?
All of this is inexcusable, disastrous, incompetence.
I feel bad for the family.
It’s also clear that about half of this country voted for this bastard Biden(not discounting voter fraud) and deserve what they get.
I’m still not sure what Biden voters think they will get out of this.
The elites could care less. Makes me hate them even more.
cant even imagine how these people feel about this...they lost their son / daughter because the their commanders left their perimeter security up to the enemy??...the taliban??..really? ...there are no words for this....simply no words. Biden..Milley etc..deserve a firing squad.
It was all fun and games when they got away with the big steal, opened the borders, started funneling trillions to their cronies and made fun of everyone for letting them get away with it. Now they have the blood of these young soldiers on their hands. Joe Biden as Commander and Chief should be court marshalled and sentenced to what ever is appropriate for murdering 13 of the finest young men and women in the country along with about a hundred largely women and children.
Biden Lied,Marines Died!
“Biden..Milley etc..deserve a firing squad.” You are absolutely correct. In fact, they should be shot in a Public Square without Blindfolds. But, not through the heart or their empty skulls.
They deserve to be killed slowly. Painfully. Questioned about their careless indifference before every shot. Feet, shins, thighs, knees, hands, forearms, upper-arms, shoulders. Then, finally, fatally. After lunch.
The horrifying manifestation of stolen elections.
Good luck with that. The DEMs are a solid 200 in the House and a solid 45 in the Senate. Also, at least 20 governors will be DEMs, along with at least 20 states having DEM majorities in their state House and Senate.
Sorry for the loss. They are the expendables.
I weep for these families. What can a religious leader say at these young men’s funerals? They died for their country? Not honestly. They died to because of inept leadership, more interest in elections that the men & women they are supposed to lead? An Honest answer, but not a comforting one to the famlies.
At the same time I worry about all the other young me & women put in harms way by the same inept, political & politically correct leadership. From the “Commander in Chief” right down thru the entire Flag Ranks.
My apologies friends, I have not had a good week.
COME ON MAN!!! That was like 4 days ago...
When the U.S. military goes back into Afghanistan they will be facing one of the best equipped militaries in the world. I am retired military so I can not criticize the slime sucking, incompetent, inept, subhuman, baby killing, affirmative action, fudge packing, low-life degenerates that run the government.
It’s tragic. I feel so helpless.
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