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Why was Bagram Air Base closed?
American Thinker.com ^ | August 19, 2021 | Douglass Herz

Posted on 08/19/2021 3:56:17 AM PDT by Kaslin

Biden closed Bagram Air Base on July 5, opening the way for the Taliban to take over Afghanistan.

The Taliban respect American air power. They know all too well that a US aircraft killed Qasem Soleimani, the “Shadow Commander” of Iranian forces in the Middle East, and also precipitated the fall of ISIS by decapitating its leadership. U.S. air power in Afghanistan is projected from Bagram Air Base, located 40 miles north of Kabul. President Donald Trump had been using this strategic American asset as leverage during his negotiations with the Taliban.

Joe Biden did the opposite. He precipitously closed Bagram Air Base in the dead of night on July 5 and withdrew all U.S. forces, not even bothering to inform the Afghans the U.S. was leaving. And of course, with Bagram and its deadly air power gone, the Taliban immediately began their offensive, taking over most of the country and causing the disaster we see today.

America must know who ordered the closing of Bagram Air Base, who supported the closing, and who signed off on the closing. They are responsible for untold deaths, destruction, and human misery in Afghanistan.


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1 posted on 08/19/2021 3:56:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Biden works for the Chinese and Russians, literally. They pay him more.


2 posted on 08/19/2021 3:57:58 AM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters.)
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To: Chgogal
Marjorie Taylor Greene
3 posted on 08/19/2021 3:59:13 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: Kaslin

Millie was cagy on his answer. He named Gen Miller but then said it was done on orders. The question is open; orders from whom?


4 posted on 08/19/2021 4:04:26 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: Kaslin

Xiden has no problems with child rape, slavery,
murder of innocents. NONE. Like PeloXi, it is
a family thing, bringing them close to the Taliban.


5 posted on 08/19/2021 4:04:47 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Kaslin
>>>Why was Bagram Air Base closed?<<<
Just a wild ass guess here, but I suspect: Dollars, Pounds, Euros, Rubles, Yuans, Yiyals and lots of others
6 posted on 08/19/2021 4:06:20 AM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Tired, Cranky and Disgusted)
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To: Kaslin

joe was following orders. He takes orders from the chinese, the taliban, and iran.


7 posted on 08/19/2021 4:10:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: Kaslin

This won’t be a popular opinion around here, and I say it with the caveat that Sleepy Joe was NEVER capable of the mildly complex thought required for this, obviously it was someone who handles him.
He closed Bagrahm so there would be a swift collapse and we wouldn’t have to deal with the scum “Americans” choosing to live in Trashcanistan and the family members of our useful translators.
The only flaw in the theory is that Biden’s handlers wouldn’t do anything that would improve The U.S.A.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 4:15:49 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: Kaslin

Look no further than Susan Rice and the 0bama clique


9 posted on 08/19/2021 4:18:46 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: End Times Sentinel

“The only flaw in the theory is that Biden’s handlers wouldn’t do anything that would improve The U.S.A.”

That’s not a flaw (”a bug”); it’s a feature in their eyes. They have no intention of improving the USA.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 4:19:12 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: I want the USA back

It really is a simple question that the media will never ask. “WHO ORDERED THE CLOSURE OF BAGRAM?”


11 posted on 08/19/2021 4:20:03 AM 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: Kaslin

Per General Milley; “We had no intelligence ...”

Either he was seized by the ‘truth bug’ or it was a CLASSIC Freudian Slip!


12 posted on 08/19/2021 4:25:00 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: Kaslin

INCOMPETENT CHILDREN.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 4:28:45 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PIF

Who was that Iranian Troll that was prominent in Obama’s regime? I can’t even remember her name anymore...


14 posted on 08/19/2021 4:30:27 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Ann Archy

That is not only true, it is factual.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 4:31:58 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Mr. K

Pres VJ .
She and Susan Rice the butcher of benghazi is calling the shoots .


16 posted on 08/19/2021 4:35:22 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger l)
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To: Tupelo

My theory. This was meant to be a disaster and meant to “escalate to change focus to Afghanistan vs. the southern border.

How many times have we seen Dem President, whenever negative crisis media here another “crisis” suddenly appears.


17 posted on 08/19/2021 4:36:02 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: Mr. K

Valerie Jarrett.


18 posted on 08/19/2021 4:36:41 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: NonValueAdded

Slo Joe.


19 posted on 08/19/2021 4:39:20 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Engedi

Bingo.


20 posted on 08/19/2021 4:39:58 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE)
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