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U.S. troops sent to evacuate personnel at Kabul embassy
https://justthenews.com ^
| August 12, 2021 - 2:53pm
| By Sophie Mann
Posted on 08/12/2021 1:09:12 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bidenforeignpolicy; embassy; jimmycarter2; kabul; retreat; taliban
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
I think that evacuation was April 1975 but, yes, “it’s deja vu all over again.”
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posted on
08/12/2021 1:58:32 PM PDT
by
riverdawg
(Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
To: Red Badger
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.
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:00:35 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Red Badger
Taliban moves in to capture everyone.
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:04:14 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Identify As Vaccinated - non-injected. Jab Me Not)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
bears repeating:
IT IS REPEATING!
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:12:30 PM PDT
by
GraceG
("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:15:02 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: outofsalt
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:17:37 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: Red Badger
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.
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:18:13 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
To: Red Badger
I pray this is not a Carter.
To: Red Badger
Biden pulled out the military and forgot the civilians.
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:38:43 PM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: Red Badger
To: SmokingJoe
Could it be that Joe thought the Taliban was the best leadership for Afghanistan?
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:44:38 PM PDT
by
Toespi
To: PeteB570
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.
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posted on
08/12/2021 2:45:31 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
That photo was taken the day Saigon fell. April 30, 1975.
To: Enlightened1
The Pentagon spent $88 billion dollars training the Afghan Army for 20 yearsIt 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.
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posted on
08/12/2021 3:23:36 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
To: Red Badger
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.
To: V_TWIN
I would have the thought the time to remove them would have been the same week he announced the pull back?
To: Red Badger
God help our troops. Benghazi
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posted on
08/12/2021 3:47:32 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: Red Badger
Gosh. That sure ended well./s
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posted on
08/12/2021 3:49:32 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(不要相信中国。中国是个混蛋 "don't trust China. China is azzhoe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicC53AhZ6Y)
To: SmokingJoe
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?
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.
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posted on
08/12/2021 4:44:14 PM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: ConservativeInPA
"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.
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posted on
08/12/2021 5:08:04 PM PDT
by
Izzatso
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