Posted on 08/21/2021 5:07:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
I have been reading about the cluster-foxtrot that Biden has allowed in Afghanistan and that the government is considering requesting that commercial airliners be pressed into service to rescue trapped US citizens and I thought to myself, what would be a better way to show how to lead than for Trump to send his personal jet to Kabul to rescue a planeload of Americans? He could have the crew shuttle them to a safe airport and go back after a couple of loads.
What do Freepers think of this idea?
The federal government can call up civilian air liners if they want to.
There is no way The Pentagon will allow it to land, imo.
As I recall his personal jet is a 757 so it would need to make a number of stops to get there. He could of course land it in India or other nearby country and then make a public plea that his plane is on stand by fueled up and ready to help.
I like it.
But only Trump’s opinion counts.
Too bad Elon doesn’t have his Starship ready for continental travel which is a goal. That would blow the taliban’s mind. They’d probably all haul butt out of the city leaving the modern Western people.
Ross Perot did something similar during the Iranian fiasco, but he didn’t do it out in the open where everybody could see it. If Trump does something to rescue our people, it would have to be covert, perhaps involving Erik Prince’s organization, and we would only know about it after the fact.
A report from March shows it with shrink-wrapped engines. Probably not flyable. Oh well, it was a good idea.
Isn’t there a law against private citizens interfering in foreign policy?
Dream on.. Lloyd Austin or Mark Milley will order it SHOT DOWN then say the Afghan Army did it.
His jet is in the shop being retrofitted and repainted. Wont be ready until 2023 or 24. He is now flying in a Cessna Citation X
The CIA would probably coordinate with the Taliban to have the plane shot down. Seriously, that is probably how the Seal Team helicopter got shot down during the Obama reign.
Hire Pakistani airlines
It could fly into Qatar and pick up Americans and fly them home.
I think your a moron for not posting the pic!
Why do they need commercial airliners? Did the brass leave all of our transport planes on the ground for the Taliban? GD Biden regime, we now need a Dunkirk to save us from these savages.
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They are not planning on landing those planes in Kabul and they are not planning on using them for US citizens.
Additional military bases in the U.S. also are being designated to provide housing for arriving Afghan evacuees.The civilian planes wouldn’t fly in or out of Kabul, which fell to Taliban rule Aug. 15, officials said. Instead, commercial airline pilots and crews would help to ferry the thousands of Afghans and others who are stranded at U.S. bases in Qatar, Bahrain and Germany.
Cessna Citation X is the way to go.
With speed of Mach .92 it is one of the fastest civilian planes on Earth.
I don’t wee that as interfering with foreign policy.
Uber rich Americans jet set around the world for cause after cause like Doha where they plan our imprisonment but they will not lift a finger to save Americans when they are in danger of being slaughtered.
We watch and we remember.
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