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US sending 3,000 troops to help begin embassy evacuation in Kabul as Taliban rapidly advances
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| 8-12-21
| John Haltiwanger
Posted on 08/12/2021 12:22:53 PM PDT by dynachrome
John Haltiwanger Thu, August 12, 2021, 12:31 PM·3 min read Taliban Taliban fighters have been seizing territory across Afghanistan. Allauddin Khan/AP The US embassy in Kabul is reportedly considering relocating employees to the airport.
The embassy is set to be evacuated as the Taliban makes rapid gains.
The US will temporarily send in 3,000 additional troops to help with the process.
The US is taking steps to pull personnel from the US embassy in Kabul, the State Department confirmed on Thursday, and additional troops will be sent in to assist with the process.
"We are further reducing our civilian footprint in Kabul in light of the evolving security situation," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said. "In order to facilitate this reduction, the Department of Defense will temporarily deploy additional personnel to Hamid Karzai Int'l Airport."
"We expect to draw down to a core diplomatic presence in Afghanistan in the coming weeks," Price said.
The Pentagon on Thursday said that roughly 3,000 additional troops will be sent to the Kabul airport.
The troops "will be there to facilitate this safe and orderly reduction" of embassy personnel, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said, portraying the move as "a prudent thing to do given the deteriorating security situation in and around Kabul."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bidensurrender; embassy; evacuation; kabul; rop; taliban
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"Safe and orderly reduction"
Lie.
To: dynachrome
Pretty sure they assured us that there would be no helicopters landing on roofs to evacuate people, we’ll see.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:24:07 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: dynachrome
To: dynachrome
Brave Sir Robinette.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:24:45 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: dynachrome
Evacuate, then fire-bomb the building
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:24:53 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
To: dynachrome
Should have nuked them 20 years ago.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:25:16 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
To: dynachrome
Saigon all over again, great job dementia joe.
To: 1Old Pro
I think I’ve seen this Democrat movie before. Where’s John Kerry? Still in Cambodia? It’ll be Christmas soon.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:29:14 PM PDT
by
paulcissa
(Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:29:49 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Truth is treason in an Empire of lies.)
To: dynachrome
I am waiting for the “Huey on the Roof “ picture.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:30:45 PM PDT
by
230FMJ
(...from my cold,them to be. dead, fingers.)
To: dynachrome
Boy, I bet the people of Kabul are a confident and happy bunch.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:31:23 PM PDT
by
elpadre
( )
To: dynachrome
Saigon.
Or if you prefer, Ho Chi Minh city.
5.56mm
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:32:13 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
To: dynachrome
How about 4 MOABS targetted around the edges of the Taliban camps, and one in the middle. Incinerate a lot of them. They can go meet Al Lah
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:32:19 PM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
To: dynachrome
How about 4 MOABS targetted around the edges of the Taliban camps, and one in the middle. Incinerate a lot of them. They can go meet Al Lah
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:32:22 PM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
To: paulcissa
Yep, typical democrats get us into a war and then surrender.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:32:29 PM PDT
by
Ronald77
To: dynachrome
The Afghan government has today offered a conditional surrender to the Taliban: "The Afghanistan government has made a power-sharing proposal to the Taliban in exchange for a halt in the escalating violence in the country, a top government source has told Al Jazeera."
To: 1Old Pro
US should keep an army of 3000. Just like Mo.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:33:35 PM PDT
by
steve8714
(Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
To: elpadre
“Boy, I bet the people of Kabul are a confident and happy bunch.”
They will just change sides.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:33:38 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
To: Chad_the_Impaler
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:35:25 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: dynachrome
“...deploy additional personnel to Hamid Karzai Int’l Airport.”
Soon to be renamed.
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posted on
08/12/2021 12:35:35 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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