Posted on 08/19/2021 7:53:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Mr. Austin said that, so far, the Taliban are allowing U.S. citizens who have passports to get through. But the Taliban are not letting most Afghans through, and many who are trying are beaten and who knows what else. Many Americans and Afghan allies are also spread around the country and will have to find a way to get to the airport.
That means he’s also depending on the goodwill of the Taliban to let our people and our allies go.
Mark this down as one of the biggest mistakes of the Biden withdrawal plan, if you can call it a plan.
The White House may fear that a more robust show of force will cause the Taliban to take Americans hostage. But that concern underscores the degree to which the White House is letting the Taliban dictate the terms of the evacuation. This is a rolling humiliation.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
But Joe Biden told George S. that he expected chaos upon withdrawal. He said there’s no way to conduct a withdrawal without chaos. Or words to that effect. Which was a stunning statement from a president, but there you have it.
Face it. With the once secure, fortified Barham US Air Force base abandoned, those 6,000 brave young Marines and Soldiers that the Biden cabal deployed at the last minute are at the tender mercies and whims of the Taliban. The Taliban can cloose Kabul airport anytime they wish. Kabul airport is the only portal for them to be resupplied and eventually withdrawn.
We are all going to pay the ransom to the Taliban to pull Joe’s behind out of the fire.
And The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate will take their cut.
FULL TXT:
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—”Kabul airport is the only portal for them to be resupplied and eventually withdrawn.”
TRUE!
And yet they planed it seven ways to Sunday?
The BS is bottemless.
Here’s more people who “think like a liberal” and “would make a fine serf”. Note the first sentence FROM THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:
“the Taliban are allowing U.S. citizens who have passports to get through.”
This is reality. This is what the situation is at this moment. There’s no “liberal” or “serfs”. You guys need to wake TF up.
Almost every statement Biden has ever made is one of his biggest mistakes.
Hey WSJ!
IT WAS A STOLEN ELECTION!!!
You are the problem.
YOU covered for THE COUP!
Get lost!
Only President Retard and his cohorts are being held hostage - I’m just along for the ride
More like..
The US is hostage to its own political and socialist elites.
—” I’m just along for the ride”
We all are...
It’s fun games until the terrorists start poping up.
TWO THUMBS UP!!!
Nice.
I think it would accurate to say that the Secretary of Defense is a liberal, and thinks like one at this point. Wikipedia noted that:
"Shaken by concerns of possible right-wing extremism among the troops, Austin on February 5 announced that every single unit of the United States military; Active, Reserve, and Guard would be required to stand down within the next 60 days in order to conduct "sensitivity" training.
Assuming anything reported by the media or the current administration is even close to accurate, very few people with US passports are getting through to the airport to be evacuated relative to the total number supposedly present in Afghanistan.
Hopefully the Taliban realize that letting Americans and others related to them out of the country is a good idea. But expressing weakness, gloom, and doom as some FR posters have done is, well, liberal thinking.
Reality can change in a moment when people act. Many of us don't have the attitudes, or ineptitude of the current administration.
"Overnight, 12 US Air Force C-17 cargo jets removed 2,000 people from the region - an average of just 160 people per flight, despite the planes being able to carry 600 people - six fewer aircraft than in the previous 24 hours. Since August 14, the US has only removed 7,000 people in total from the region. Only 300 of those who flew out were American"
"An Afghan-Australian trying to leave the country also told the ABC that it is 'not possible' to get to the airport today because there is 'lots of firing' and 'too many people' while Max Sangeen, a Canadian interpreter, said his wife and children - including a 20-day-old baby - are trapped in Kabul despite having proper documents."
Look what you wrote:
“Hopefully the Taliban realize that letting Americans and others related to them out of the country is a good idea.”
If what I’m saying is not true, and is liberal thinking, why do say that? Because it’s what the situation is. Yes, I too am HOPEFUL that the Taliban ALLOW the status quo. And I’m not in any way defending Austin. He’s a major cause of this total fiasco. But for him to say what he said indicates how bad the situation really is.
I guess your point is that things are as I described them but we shouldn’t say it. I mean, it seems you’re agreeing with what I said, but expressing it is doom and gloom and liberal thinking. Frankly, I don’t know what you’re trying to say.
That's wimpy liberal thinking, and you know it. The Taliban don't have "us" over any kind of barrel at all. Our inept leadership, whether intentionally or not, blundered into the situation we are in now. But in reality our military and our nation could do whatever we want to do to the Taliban if we decided to.
The troops at the airport could be slaughtering the nearby Taliban fighters if they wanted to. That's probably not the best tactic at the moment, but they certainly could if they wanted to.
Maybe the voters will learn that electing idiots has consequences, and that the weak, liberally minded people that have taken too many roles in the State Department and the military spent years pretending to be "nation building" when they were really just wasting time and money and setting up millions of Afghan citizens for disaster.
Okay, we’ve started the circular argument phase. It’s like your arguing with me by making my points for me, like this:
“The troops at the airport could be slaughtering the nearby Taliban fighters if they wanted to. That’s probably not the best tactic at the moment, but they certainly could if they wanted to.”
Why is that not the best tactic? Because the Taliban would shut down the airport, depriving our troops of supplies, move in about 20,000 Muslim psychos, and eventually slaughter back. Then they would take a few thousand hostages to be used as human shields. That’s what I’ve been saying.
Sorry, but you really don't seem to understand the mindset and approaches necessary to deal with people who base their decisions on the dynamics of power, like the Taliban, instead of fear and worry. Notice that your analysis is just a recitation of failure, based on your own defeatist attitude.
The reason driving the Taliban back is not the best strategy is that at the moment we are getting some civilians out without the disruption, expense, and killing that would be required to clear the Taliban from around the airport. Not because they might fight back, or "deprive our troops of supplies" or some other bad outcome from the list you can imagine.
Do you think the Taliban would really stay around the airport, and mass 20,000 of their fellow supporters there if the mile around the airport suddenly turned into a free fire zone with constant bombardment? How long do they usually stay around when an A-10 or an AC-130 is unloading on them? Not long if you have ever watched videos of them fighting.
I understand that you are stuck with a defeatist attitude, like the crew in the White House. But you can appreciate the bad situation as it exists but still not look only at the ways to fail further. That's how to win, even over long odds. It works. You just watched the Taliban do exactly that, right?
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