U.S. troops sent to evacuate personnel at Kabul embassy

https://justthenews.com ^ | August 12, 2021 - 2:53pm | By Sophie Mann

[Red Badger]

With security in Afghanistan deteriorating rapidly, U.S. troops were dispatched Thursday to evacuate personnel from the embassy in Kabul, according to a U.S. official.

U.S. troops are being sent to the Kabul airport where they will provide air and ground support to help process Americans hastily exiting the country.

The move comes alongside news that the Taliban have seized the country's third largest city of Heart, a strategic provincial capital near Kabul.

[riverdawg]

I think that evacuation was April 1975 but, yes, “it’s deja vu all over again.”

[shanover]

If I were the Taliban,I would blackmail the pathetic USA by saying we will let you evacuate for a few billion and we won’t attack for 48 hours and then get the money and attack anyway.

[SkyDancer]

Taliban moves in to capture everyone.

[GraceG]

bears repeating:

IT IS REPEATING!

[outofsalt]

[outofsalt]

[RetiredTexasVet]

The Press should dig up the old new film from the evacuation of Saigon. Use it instead and save a few bucks. Get some real tear jerkers as people are pushed off the evacuation choppers. The government slugs pushing old people and children down on the ground to climb over them to escape. Seems so familiar from Democrats.

[NeverTyranny]

I pray this is not a Carter.

[blueplum]

Biden pulled out the military and forgot the civilians.

[Enlightened1]

The Pentagon spent $88 billion dollars training the Afghan Army for 20 years

It collapsed in 1 month

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1425923773199495176

[Toespi]

Could it be that Joe thought the Taliban was the best leadership for Afghanistan?

[higgmeister]

Can anyone say Libya?

Also say the U.S. evacuation of Phnom Penh and Saigon, then eventually the whole of Laos.

*It's like a broken record that nobody will switch off.

[Dan in Wichita]

That photo was taken the day Saigon fell. April 30, 1975.

[ConservativeInPA]

The Pentagon spent $88 billion dollars training the Afghan Army for 20 years

It is more like the Pentagon spent $88 billion dollars training the enemy. The Afghan Army will dissolve and morph with the Taliban and other tribal militias.

We shouldn't spend a dime on a pot for Muslims to piss in. You get in, kill them, and get out. It ain't all that hard to do. This nation and democracy building crap was wrong from the beginning.

I bet there wasn't one 4 Star at the Pentagon that had the testicular fortitude to tell Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden that.

[Dan in Wichita]

Through it all, Pedo Joe maintains a decent approval rating. Many in this country, perhaps a majority, think he is doing a great job as president.

Things are getting so bad, it may be better for my mental health to stop keeping up with the news.

[Sam Gamgee]

I would have the thought the time to remove them would have been the same week he announced the pull back?

[TornadoAlley3]

God help our troops. Benghazi

[Eleutheria5]

Gosh. That sure ended well./s

[rdcbn1]

The totally laughable Dementia Joe clown show continues.
Did this deranged fool not foresee the Taliban will re-intensify their attacks once America was withdrawing their troops?
Joe Dementia is old enough to remember Vietnam no?

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Dementia Joe is old enough to have been one of the Senators who betrayed Vietnam and left them to the Communists..

In fact, he WAS one of the Senators who betrayed Vietnam.

[Izzatso]

"I bet there wasn't one 4 Star at the Pentagon that had the testicular fortitude to tell Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden that."

I'd bet a fair number of stars got pinned on over the last twenty years.