Posted on 08/13/2021 7:15:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The British Government has said it will be sending 600 troops to Afghanistan to help British nationals flee as the Taliban continue to seize territory around the country, with Kandahar and Lashkar Gah - the capital of the southern province of Helmand - the latest to fall to the insurgency.
'I have authorised the deployment of additional military personnel to support the diplomatic presence in Kabul, assist British nationals to leave the country and support the relocation of former Afghan staff who risked their lives serving alongside us,' Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.
Wallace described the deployment was a 'pre-planned phase' to 'enable the next step of leaving'.
However, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) appeared to contradict this, saying that the additional deployment was 'in light of the increasing violence and rapidly deteriorating security environment in the country'.
Speaking on Friday morning, Wallace said was worried that Afghanistan was spiralling towards a failed state that could become a breeding ground for militants such as al Qaeda which would probably come back.
'I'm absolutely worried that failed states are breeding grounds for those types of people,' the Defence Secretary told Sky. 'al Qaeda will probably come back.'
Wallace said the West had to understand that it could not instantly fix countries such as Afghanistan but should manage situations.
He said that Afghanistan's second biggest city of Kandahar and the town of Lashkar Gah was 'pretty much now in the hands of the Taliban.'
Some 4,000 British nationals are estimated to still be in Afghanistan, according to the Foreign Office. The Sun reported that only a skeleton staff, including ambassador Sir Laurie Bristow, will remain in Kabul.
Troops will aim to secure the city's airport, where both the UK and US embassy will be relocated to, the paper reported.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9888431/Taliban-Afghanistans-biggest-city-Herat.html
Good article not like in this country
The great fall of Afghanistan. Now we are running out, like Viet Nam. I want to thank Joe Biden for making the US look stupid again, like what Nixon did in 1975
Sheesh, maybe we should nickname Biden , Over-run Biden. Overrun in the middle east, overrun at our southern border, and he’s running to take a vacation.
What a sh*t show this has become. Thanks to the idiot in the White House and his enablers. I feel sorry for any Afghans who have associated themselves with us. They are going to bear the brunt of it. Meanwhile the Admin talks of the Taliban as if they are a legitimate twenty-first century governing authority with ambitions to be accepted in the modern world of nations. These are seventh century savages.
One, Ford was president in 1975. Two, a Dem led Congress categorically refused to do anything to help what was left of South Vietnam. Which led to slaughter in Vietnam and genocide in Cambodia....
Nixon had nothing to do with it, Ford was President.
And none of it had to happen if air cover hadn’t been denied after October 1974. The NVA could have never mounted an armored invasion if they had to contend with US air attacks.
The same insanity is happening now in Afghanistan. Taliban supply and columns could be stopped with US counterinsurgency airstrikes. But of course, one of the Democrats who voted to rescind funding in 1974 is now the President...and he’s doing the same sleazy thing that he did then.
Should have never went in there ..They fews guys that went in and chased Bin Ladin out....told the higher ups to not go in...if there was a threat to the U.S. just to do it the same way...
It was Ford in charge of Nam. Democrats we’re in charge of Congress and kneecapped south Vietnamese.
Ask yourself why the Brits are sending the paratroopers and America is sending the 82nd. It’s because eff’n Xiden turned all the airbases/airports over to the enemy in his botched withdrawal so we can have an ongoing war. Xiden had no intention of leaving. We’ll be there a while longer, spilling our blood and wasting our treasure on a people who that don’t give a damn about freedom and living in the 21st century.
I’ve seen this situation in Zombie movies, and I know how to deal with it.
The women being slaughtered is on the President- Obama! Let’s stop pretending that Cornpop is!
This is shaping up to be Saigon part Deux.
This is what happens when you go to war with no exit plan.
The Taliban had an exit plan for us. Now we are witnessing it.
The Graveyard of Empires.
We never learn from history. We just keep repeating it.
Exit plan?
What a statement of absolute ignorance and pure stupidity
There is no possibility of an exit plan for war.
Thank you all, I actually knew that. Just wanted to see it come out. I didn’t want to seem to overly hateful of the surrender monkeys.
Cortez burned his ships.
Victory or death.
You’re correct. The Democrat lead Congress refused to fund the military in Viet Nam. There was no other choice but to get our troops out before they were overrun. And the same is happening in Afghanistan. John Kerry will start calling it “Trump’s War”.
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
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