Evacuation Eyewitness: What I Saw in Kabul

Libertarian Institute ^ | 09/22/21 | John Vaughn

[Pining_4_TX]

Since leaving Afghanistan, everyone who was on the gates has their own stories about the horrors they saw. American soldiers and Marines were placed under very strict orders not to interfere with anything that happened outside of the gates. Every inch of the city, right up to the walls, was controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban set up checkpoints on the roads leading to the airport, tightly controlling the movement of people and vehicles to and from the vicinity.

We heard reports of all sorts of atrocities committed by the Taliban. I listened to reports about sniper teams observing the Taliban dragging people out of their homes and cars and beating or executing them in the street. A friend of mine relayed a story where the Taliban apprehended about two dozen people attempting to scale the walls around the airport and then executed every one of them right there in the street, and the soldiers and Marines were forced to watch all of this happen and not intervene in this obvious war crime, lest we upset our intemperate guardians and risk them turning on us. Another soldier recounted how they watched members of the Taliban beat the belly of a pregnant woman who had slighted them somehow. The brutality extended beyond just the Taliban, though.

[Sacajaweau]

It’s called stand down. And Biden let them take over Afghanistan without firing a shot. Yup....we the great protectors, led by an insolent, arrogant President gave it way....and got 13 of our best killed.

[Pining_4_TX]

Too bad George Bush and Liz Cheney weren’t there to see what war really is.

[Texas Fossil]

Bump

[Darksheare]

Liz Cheney should go over alone and unescorted to show everyone how friendly the talibros are.

[Eagles6]

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

8 months and at least 2 million illegals let in and many more to come.

[21twelve]

“Since leaving Afghanistan, everyone who was on the gates has their own stories about the horrors they saw. American soldiers and Marines were placed under very strict orders not to interfere with anything that happened outside of the gates.”

I wonder if stuff like this is behind those three soldiers suicides recently. And hearing Milly testify that he told Biden we shouldn’t have left so quickly.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[ducttape45]

I just talked with my son, who served 6 months over there, and saw his best friend killed by terrorists. His views are the same as mine, turn the entire country into a sheet of glass, wipe them all out, friend and foe alike. He said good people covered for the terrorists, which makes them just as guilty.

Is this barbaric? Some may say yes, others would say no. But I maintain it is the only viable solution for that country. It has been a pain in the backside of many countries for hundreds of years. It's time to wipe the slate clean and let them start over.

[Jumper]

Fire with fire... evil people need good men willing to do evil things, such as killing them like vermin. Good men do not become evil by do doing evil things, but evil people cannot become good conversely. The Taliban are evil; it takes a Good and Great man to destroy this lifestyle.

[Texas Fossil]

I do not lay any blame on the soldiers in this horrible situation.

I do blame the failure in Afghanistan upon the State Department and other alphabet agencies who never looked at this as a military operation. They were nation building in a place where there is no pattern for any successful attempts, although many have tried over hundreds of years.

Never in the history of the USA has an administration (regime) failed so miserably in exiting a conflict.

And NOW, they attempt to destroy the USA from the inside.

I disagree with some comments of the author.

Will the history books portray an accurate treatment of 20 years in Afghanistan? No.

[Torahman]

The problem has a name, and that name is Islam. Can it be reformed? I think there are many good Muslims who would like to try. Who knows?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

There is something wrong with the writer’s summary of the US in Afghanistan. We did not kill hundreds of thousands of people there, etc. This sounds like a copying of left-wing anti-American agitprop. I heard the same shit in Nam and Cambodia when I was a short-term journalist there, propagated by leftist journalists. I talked to both SVN military and civilians about some of these stories and they didn’t jive. Same for Cambodia.

Be very careful of “extrapolation” stories.

[rxh4n1]

Also the lie that we killed a million Iraqis, or whatever the insane number was.

[kearnyirish2]

I think a problem for anyone who either killed people over there or saw them die is that when you leave as we did, it is clear that the deaths were for nothing.