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EXC: Joe Biden’s State Dept. Halted A Trump-Era ‘Crisis Response’ Plan Aimed At Avoiding Benghazi-Style Evacuations Just MONTHS Before Taliban Takeover.
The National Pulse ^ | August 18, 2021 | Raheem Kassam

Posted on 08/18/2021 1:22:50 PM PDT by packagingguy

Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; trump
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To: Freee-dame

Notice how most of the Republicans are silent right now

Has Turtle come out of his shell to comment?


41 posted on 08/18/2021 2:02:19 PM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: Mathews

And the Chinese are remembering Mao’s words ... “paper tiger.”


42 posted on 08/18/2021 2:03:24 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Alberta's Child
I can’t imagine what would ever motivate me to trust a FOREIGN government to do the same under any circumstances

They believe in Hollywood, that's why

43 posted on 08/18/2021 2:05:24 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: packagingguy

as long as we get rid of the Trump crap, we dems don’t care how many die because of our actions.....


44 posted on 08/18/2021 2:08:36 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Chode

Well the memo was from Deputy Secretary of State Brian P. McKeon, but it is not clear if he was just the author or the one who made the decision.

Regardless all Americans should have been evacuated before the military left and this was not done. We do not know if other nations with citizens in Afghanistan were notified either.

It seems as though if all Americans and foreign nationals are not removed by September 11 there will be a very public hostage crisis.


45 posted on 08/18/2021 2:09:21 PM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: New Perspective

“OMG! That photo brought me to tears.”

It pissed me off. Gotta have a beer.


46 posted on 08/18/2021 2:10:46 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: BlueHorseShoe

The incompetence of this old fool just keeps doubling down.


47 posted on 08/18/2021 2:11:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: RummyChick

Notice how most of the Republicans are silent right now

Has Turtle come out of his shell to comment?


Great question.


48 posted on 08/18/2021 2:12:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: LastDayz

The photo is real but from 2015

Farkhunda Malikzada


49 posted on 08/18/2021 2:15:26 PM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: Jane Long; All

Barak Hussein Obama is pulling this puppet’s strings.

Remember, folks, obam wanted to fundamentally change America. It is all a part of the Globalist plan, everything that is going on right now.

Pray for America and the world.


50 posted on 08/18/2021 2:16:13 PM PDT by waterhill
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To: CatOwner
"So many people are responsible for not letting Trump get us out of Afghanistan on *our* timeline"

Yes, Trump and Pompeo were very clear in their meeting with the Taliban last year about an organized withdrawal by May 1st. President Trump also said to their faces if the Taliban reneged on the deal they would experience the likes of what no other country has seen, to paraphrase.

Trump also said to the Tallys that if they harmed one American citizen during the draw down, they would deal with the full wrath of our military, "including their leadership, communities, villages, friends and families." It sounded like Trump was ready to go Dresdan on them if the above happened. I believe he would have.

Biteme as much cancelled that deal and here we are.

As for Bagram, Milley claimed it to be "consolidating" resources in anticipation of the pullout. He said that in front of Congress, IIRC. With the middle night pull out, not notifying Afgan officials, leaving all that military equipment, it was obviously not about "consolidating". Remember, Trump also told the Tallys he would destroy every piece of American equipment during those 2020 talks.

Someone feel free to post Pres. Trumps exact words in the Taliban meeting. Pompeo backed his up.

51 posted on 08/18/2021 2:17:42 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. 8/15/2021 - Afganiscrap falls.)
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To: Diogenesis

If this is not an accurate picture, please ask the mods to remove it. THANKS!!


52 posted on 08/18/2021 2:18:46 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: waterhill

Yes...prayers, DAILY....throughout the day.


53 posted on 08/18/2021 2:20:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: RummyChick

I expect him to end up in the hospital soon.


54 posted on 08/18/2021 2:20:29 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Freee-dame

Most of the Republicans in Congress are complicit with the Dems, not just complacent. If they had not been working against Trump most of the time during his administration, he would be president right now.


THAT ^^ is spot on.


55 posted on 08/18/2021 2:21:02 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: BlueHorseShoe

Hard to sleep in the WH with all those crises going on. Officers keep knocking on his door to inform him of the latest urgency in the control room.


56 posted on 08/18/2021 2:21:10 PM PDT by TomGuy (!)
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To: Jane Long

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1428101389687746562

Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
@stillgray

Biden just told ABC News that he has no idea how the disaster in Afghanistan could’ve been handled any better than how he did it. Mission accomplished.

(video clip)

Replying to
@stillgray
Biden repeats the lie that the Afghan military just gave up and left their weapons behind. Makes no acknowledgement of how he scrapped previous evac plans, handicapped the Afghan military, didn’t listen to intel or commanders on the ground, and let the situation get ahead of him.

Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
@stillgray
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8m
Biden also claims the US military has the airport secured, and that the footage from a couple of days ago was “four or five days ago.” It’s been less than half a day since the Taliban shot a bunch of people outside the airport, but I’m sure Biden has the situation under control.

Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
@stillgray
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7m
There’s an estimated 10,000 or so (possibly fewer, possibly as many as 15,000) Americans left behind in Afghanistan. Not counting any of the other nationalities who assisted in US operations who got burned as a result of his sudden, unplanned withdrawal.

Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
@stillgray
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6m
Worth mentioning that the Americans in Afghanistan aren’t simply stuck in Kabul. Many are trapped in other cities that have since come under Taliban control. What about them?


57 posted on 08/18/2021 2:24:52 PM PDT by maggief
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The Marxists’ pursuit for the destruction of the U.S. may find themselves... self-destructed.


58 posted on 08/18/2021 2:25:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: waterhill

>> Barak Hussein Obama is pulling this puppet’s strings.

Not him. He’s a #ing idiot.


59 posted on 08/18/2021 2:26:28 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: packagingguy

The Afghan government and President didn’t trust Joe
Biden.....period.

The talks to withdraw were going badly and Biden was a bad negotiator.

He foolishly pulled US forces quickly back and left Americans stranded behind enemy lines.

History will show his decisions were extremely costly....


60 posted on 08/18/2021 2:27:53 PM PDT by blackberry1
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