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As Taliban tighten their grip, Kabul airport only way out
The Associated Press ^ | August 14, 2021 | By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL

Posted on 08/14/2021 2:41:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Liaison
The news media is not as giddy to show the fall of Kabul as they did the Fall of Saigon.

Until they figure out how to blame it all on Trump.

21 posted on 08/14/2021 3:05:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: eyedigress
We have one seat left and it is up for auction. Good luck.

Question from the business subcontractor wanting to leave: "Will I still get my double frequent flyer miles for this flight? I was promised six extra months of them."

22 posted on 08/14/2021 3:05:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

Sorry, that only applies to American Airlines and they are not in service here.


23 posted on 08/14/2021 3:09:50 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

2:42 AM
Sunday, August 15, 2021 (GMT+4:30)
Time in Kabul, Afghanistan


24 posted on 08/14/2021 3:12:13 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kazan

So the theoretical possibility that a terrorist group could one day use Afghanistan as a base of operations means we have to keep tens of thousands of American troops there for all of eternity?

Have we not had enough of this nation building nonsense yet?
Have we not had enough of watching our brave men and women murdered by savages over a dusty backward junkyard?
Have we not spent enough of our money there?

Let the savages be savages together, without us. America first!


25 posted on 08/14/2021 3:12:45 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just a thought. Why would the Taliban let the US evacuate the embassy? Why not just kill everyone? What’s Biden going to do? Declare war? What are liberals going to do? Vote Republican? What is the UN going to do? Condemn the Taliban?

There is no downside for the Taliban.


26 posted on 08/14/2021 3:13:59 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“We will be able to move thousands per day but that’s just the airlift capacity,” Kirby said.

That's thousands of Muslim Afghani, not Americans. They should be forced to stay and fight. We've given them $88 billion in training and arms, but they only know how to surrender. I do not want Muslims immigrating to American. I do not want cowards immigrating to America. We could have pulled all the Americans out earlier this week. But this is a planned Muslim Migration by the Biden administration with months of preparation including the airlift, housing at Ft Lee, VA, healthcare, clothing, and food. Just this past Thursday, 1,200 Afghani Muslims "immigrated" to Ft. Lee. 1,200 Americans could have been on those flights on Thursday, but instead Biden chose to send our troops in harms way so pedophile prophet worshiping death cultists can immigrate to our country. That is what is really happening here.

We do not owe a single Afghani a damn thing, particularly residency in America. This whole idea that we owe them because they helped our military is a crock of horse crap. They got paid for their service. Transaction complete. It doesn't make the Americans. They can now go and using their training and serve in the Afghan military. Just because all Afghans are a bunch of surrendering cowards doesn't make an argument for immigration to America, it actually makes an argument against immigration to America.

The bottom line that so many seem to lose track is that we are at war with Islam. That is what sane, rational people understand. Why in the hell would you facilitate the immigration of our enemy? You can just bet there were Taliban in the group of 1,200 on Thursday.

It is just another one of the many ways leftist are polluting our nation. They did it Somalia, and we have Illhan Omar as a consequence and ghettos full Somalis that absolutely nothing in common with Americans. They are doing it at our southern boarder. Our nation is full up of people that are never going to American, but the leftist plan to make them citizens and forever voting socialists.

27 posted on 08/14/2021 3:14:56 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
Let the savages be savages together, without us. America first!

Amen. Amen. We don't need no pedophile prophet worshiping death cultists. We certainly do not need to put our troops in harms way to help them immigrate to American. (My SIL is among the troops deployed Thursday night from Ft. Bragg. Everyone please include the Marines and 82nd Airborne in your prayers.)

28 posted on 08/14/2021 3:18:44 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: eyedigress

Ouch.

Maybe Greyhound has a route without too many war zone stops.


29 posted on 08/14/2021 3:18:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Old Joe will finally agree to pay the enemy the money they are asking for.

Obama did at Benghazi.

That’s how we got anyone out.


30 posted on 08/14/2021 3:20:22 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Taliban’s got SAMs


31 posted on 08/14/2021 3:21:18 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: ConservativeInPA

I prayed for her when you mentioned that.
More prayers up.
May God watch over them in their mission.


32 posted on 08/14/2021 3:22:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: KC_Lion
"The Battle of Kabul has begun.

#Kabul #AfghanistanBurning pic.twitter.com/fbWb0MxP9A— P0101 (@P010110) August 14, 2021

Time lapse video of the Taliban's offensive when it began taking over provincial capitals and provinces. pic.twitter.com/le6Sx8ZwYY— Bill Roggio (@billroggio) August 14, 2021


33 posted on 08/14/2021 3:29:41 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The airport is the only way out until they figure out how to use the surface-to-air missiles graciously left behind by sleepy Joe...


34 posted on 08/14/2021 3:30:19 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: janetjanet998

Avoiding this kind of scene is likely the only reason Biden and his team of incompetents are sending in troops. It’s all political. People like him are the scourge of the Earth. Truly. Arrogant and narcissistic, seeing the rest of the people in the world as inanimate characters in a video game that they personally star in. All the while being hysterically and dangerously inept.


35 posted on 08/14/2021 3:31:58 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

“until they figure out how to use the surface-to-air missiles”

If that happens, that is going to be interesting. I don’t think the gas tank leak explanation is going to fly this time.


36 posted on 08/14/2021 3:38:31 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The demented retard in the white house is sending 5000 troops there, now. Were any ground to air missiles left behind?


37 posted on 08/14/2021 3:48:29 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: ConservativeInPA

I have a friend in a unit that had the balloon go up. They are loaded to the gills and are on the way. God bless our soldiers!


38 posted on 08/14/2021 3:51:45 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My son is Sgt. 1st Class in the Army. He has been to Afghanistan twice. More recently, he and the other Soldiers were assigned to build an airstrip somewhere in the Southwest (USA). He called me yesterday to give me a heads up that they stopped the assignment, and they are all returning back to base. There is a good chance he will be going there.


39 posted on 08/14/2021 3:56:54 PM PDT by Enough_Deceit (Proud Mama of a US Marine and a US Soldier Bitterly Hanging On to Her Guns and Religion. Ooorahh!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We should’ve boobie trapped the whole thing.


40 posted on 08/14/2021 3:56:59 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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