[CopperTop]

This situation cornfuses me. Is this not an Air Force base?
With, I would assume, war fighting and cargo type aircraft?
If so, why can't they load up the families and our goodies then get-the-heck-outta-Dodge with fighter escort?

Am I being ignorant again? The thought of nukes around what seems to be a "severely shifting the wrong way" administration is... disconcerting. d:^)

[RummyChick]

Yeah it doesn’t make sense to me IF we are really flying aircraft out of there...unless Nutjob said only certain people are allowed to leave under my command...etc....

We are in a foreign nation. Remember Benghazi? We didn’t want to go in their airspace and Libyan planes flew the guys out. We kowtow a lot under the guise of the State Department and relations.