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Taliban just 30 miles from Kabul, power and road links cut
twitter ^ | Aug 13 | Disclosetv

Posted on 08/13/2021 4:15:04 AM PDT by RandFan

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JUST IN - Taliban just 50 kilometers from #Kabul, power and road links cut this morning (RIA)

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To: Levy78
Concur. The Talibunnies will have the airport before we can get any troops in, much a full brigade.

1842 anyone? Only this time the Pathans have automatic weapons, RPGs, and God knows what else Biden, Austin & Milley abandoned when they cut and ran from Bagram.

41 posted on 08/13/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Levy78

If Biden has paid them off, they’ll still go after the Embassy.

It’s what they do.


42 posted on 08/13/2021 6:05:37 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Levy78

That’s the cold-hearted truth. Our Country has been stolen, raped, beaten, and left in the ditch for carrion feeders.


43 posted on 08/13/2021 6:06:41 AM PDT by mcshot (We've been bamboozled.)
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To: dynachrome

Logistics won’t play much into the calculation for this accelerated fall.

The issue is that the Afghan ‘national army’ knows they’re doomed and the Taliban know they will conquer. This is a pure morale issue.


44 posted on 08/13/2021 6:13:12 AM PDT by larrytown ( )
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To: Jim Noble
"Taliban will celebrate their victory on 9/11/21 Why?...They will celebrate soon enough, but 9/11 for them is just another day on the calendar."

Disagreed. The Taliban gave safe haven to OBL in the lead up to 9/11. 9/11 was celebrated in a lot of muslim countries outside of SA and Pakistan.

45 posted on 08/13/2021 6:17:38 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack
The Taliban gave safe haven to OBL in the lead up to 9/11

They extended milmastya to him. That's their custom.

46 posted on 08/13/2021 6:21:08 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: RandFan

This whole situation is repulsive and embarrassing.


47 posted on 08/13/2021 6:21:37 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: stockpirate

This is no longer about Afghans defending themselves. We are now into Nam II. Democrats cannot afford the slaughter of US personnel on their hands and that’s exactly what’s going to happen. With 3,000 flying in first now and another 3,500 (2 battalions worth) slo Joe is going to get more of our personnel killed.

If the Taliban get within 5 miles of the airport, they can essentially shut it down with ground to air shoulder fired missiles. As LBJ found out in 65’ it took a lot of marines to protect Da Nang. You just can’t protect the base, you have to conduct operations 10-15 miles outside the perimeter.


48 posted on 08/13/2021 6:21:55 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: larrytown

And if what is left of the afghan army is smart, they’ll help the taliban or flee to some other muzzie craphole.


49 posted on 08/13/2021 6:23:37 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Joe 6-pack

Wouldn’t that be ironic.


50 posted on 08/13/2021 6:23:53 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: dynachrome

Just like Nam, soldiers will don their uniforms in the streets for Taliban garb and turn tail.


51 posted on 08/13/2021 6:28:11 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Dan in Wichita
In general, I’d say the American people really don’t care about the disgraceful fall of Kabul and the Vietnam-like evacuation of our embassy.

I don't care about it in the slightest. Why should I?

52 posted on 08/13/2021 6:33:26 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: 1Old Pro

“Better get the helicopters in to evacuate”

They will bring AC130’s to evacuate and cover the retreat. I fact I think they already have them and some B52’s staged in the area.


53 posted on 08/13/2021 6:35:59 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Levy78

Islam is radical. That’s the problem.


54 posted on 08/13/2021 6:38:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Drew68

If I have to explain it to you it is pointless to even try. Have a good day.


55 posted on 08/13/2021 6:38:54 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Pollard
It is not just Americans who need to be evacuated:

"More than a dozen nations have contacted the U.S. military for assistance in removing their personnel from Kabul should the security situation dictate it, officials said."
56 posted on 08/13/2021 6:39:39 AM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: dynachrome
And if what is left of the afghan army is smart, they’ll help the taliban or flee to some other muzzie craphole.

It's the smart play.
57 posted on 08/13/2021 7:09:26 AM PDT by larrytown ( )
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To: Levy78

“I believe history will see the loss of Afghanistan as symbolic of the fall of America as we know it.”

You are almost certainly correct. The New Reichstag Fire on January 6 will be the domestic marker of the fall, and the taking of Kabul will be the foreign marker. Our arrogant oligarchs may, likely will, lose a lot more in the next three years, but Kabul will mark the beginning of the avalanche outside the US.


58 posted on 08/13/2021 7:47:23 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: RandFan

tick tock.


59 posted on 08/13/2021 4:03:29 PM PDT by sauropod ("We're Left with no Choice but to Be Against the Party that Continues to Elevate People Like Bidet)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Now, while the talibunnies are crowded on the roads
is the time for B-52s to carpet bomb the convoys.
However it would take a real leader to do that.


60 posted on 08/13/2021 4:11:04 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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