Posted on 10/31/2021 4:00:18 PM PDT by upchuck
Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives insight into the department’s efforts in getting Americans out of Afghanistan, as well as current talks regarding the Iran nuclear deal.
Blinken has continued to defend the Biden administration’s efforts to evacuate Americans and allies out of Afghanistan. During a series of interviews on Sunday, Blinken claimed about 340 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since Aug. 31.
This comes as the Biden administration has come under immense scrutiny over the botched withdrawal and has been pressed to do more to help those in danger in the Taliban-ruled country. Blinken stressed his department has ramped up efforts to coordinate better evacuations as more stranded allies have expressed interest in leaving.
“We’re at this 24/7. We have teams of several hundred people in the State Department, and also other parts of our government working on this every single day,” the secretary of state said.
Blinken also assessed the department is constantly working with thousands of Afghan allies who qualify for Special Immigrant Visas.
Additionally, he touched on nuclear negotiations, saying the U.S. is “absolutely in lock step” with France, Britain and Germany on getting Iran to rejoin a nuclear deal. The four countries are also reportedly working with China and Russia to come up with an agreement to limit nuclear weapons developed in those countries.
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Leave Afghans out of it, how many Americans?
He got the ones out that he cares about:
“In fact, working in close coordination with the management of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, we have successfully evacuated all 204 of their employees in Afghanistan on U.S. military aircraft earlier this week.” - Biden August 20, 2021
So....one whole plane load. Impressive! 🙄
So about 99.360 so to go?
We should have this baby wrapped up by Christmas-—2051
Were these people who wanted to stay when we left and they have changed there minds?
Ginger Goebbels told us they wanted to stay.
He didn’t get any out. He’s taking credit for what private contractors are doing.
339 Afghans + 1 American
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