Posted on 08/12/2021 10:27:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Saigon, here we come. As if our rapid abandonment of the government in Kabul wasn’t disgraceful enough, now the New York Times reports that we’re begging the Taliban to leave our embassy alone when they come for everyone else. The Biden administration says that they have no immediate plans to withdraw the 4,000 people working at the embassy, but that might change in a hurry depending on the tender mercies and diplomatic goals of the marauding Islamist army taking aim at the capital:
American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group overruns the capital in a direct challenge to the country’s government, two American officials said.
The effort, led by Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief American envoy in talks with the Taliban, seeks to stave off an evacuation of the embassy as the fighters rapidly seize cities across Afghanistan. The Taliban’s advance has put embassies in Kabul on high alert for a surge of violence in coming months, or even weeks, and forced consulates and other diplomatic missions elsewhere in the country to shut down.
American diplomats now are trying to determine how soon they may need to evacuate the U.S. Embassy should the Taliban prove to be more bent on destruction than a détente.
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This guy is an ass.
Begging the Taliban not to hurt us. This is embarrassing.
Paging Gen. Mattis. Why the silence?
They won’t do anything to the Embassy. They wouldn’t want to disrupt the cash flow...
What could go wrong with this ? 🙄
They had one job: to eliminate the Taliban like we eliminated the Nazis.
20 years of piddling.
Ship Bush and Obama to Afghanistan.
Mattis turned out to be a woke idiot.
Does anyone think the Taliban gives a sh!t what the US wants? What a PR Coup it will be for them to sack the Embassy and perhaps take hostages. Do you really think D!ckhead Biden will lift a finger to defend the Embassy.
This one big Cluster....
Mattis must regard your handle as his new nickname. No offense meant.
Wonder if the 4,000 embassy staff represent the entire State Department contingent of Trump supporters. Getting banished to Kabul a month before the Taliban overrun the city would sure be a way to sweep the undesirables under the rug.
After the fall of South Vietnam, I saw a book titled, "A Decent Interval." Not even that is happening here.
Since we didn’t eliminate the national socialists (consider the pattern the European Union is built according to, never mind the fact that anti-Zionist Arab nations declared themselves to be national socialists too, biggest examples Nasser and the Ba’athists), I suppose that’s the formula the deep state did indeed follow.
If they promise, but then take everyone there hostage, Biden will have far surpassed Jimmy Carter as worst President in yet another aspect.
The Taliban doesn’t worry about cash flow. It still gets there via Iran, Hamas and every other terror organization that Xiden happily funds.
Benghazi II, supersized.
Make Hillary ambassador and send her there for six months. She is an expert on embassy protection and women rights.
Gen. Milley is reaching out to the Taliban asking when they’re available for woke training?
“”American diplomats now are trying to determine how soon they may need to evacuate the U.S. Embassy should the Taliban prove to be more bent on destruction than a détente.””
American diplomats aren’t known their intelligence...but you go ahead and listen to YOUR president, you jerks! Remember Hillary’s State Department? ‘nuff said....
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