Posted on 08/14/2021 3:46:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Taliban fighters have captured Mazar-i-Sharif, the last major city in northern Afghanistan which was still under government control.
The fall of the traditional anti-Taliban bastion marked a major gain for the militants, who have been advancing at speed as US-led forces withdraw.
Local officials said Mazar-i-Sharif - the capital of Balkh province and fourth largest city in Afghanistan - fell largely without a fight.
Abas Ebrahimzada, a lawmaker from Balkh, told the Associated Press news agency that the national army were the first to surrender, which then prompted pro-government forces and other militia to give up.
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When will the Taliban erect a statue of Biden? He certainly deserves it. No other American will get his own statue in Afghanistan.
All over but the shouting.
The word “conflict” would imply resistance.
I’m having flashbacks to Jihma Carter and the Iran Embassy.
Humiliation. Kids these days love it. We’re screwed.
The Chinese Communist Party has already started their mining operations
It’s like the Blitzkrieg vs Polish horse cavalry...except the Poles fought valiantly.
Media salivating...more war!
The calligraphy is on the bulkhead.
If Biden said even one thing that was correct (Afghan Army of 300,000, Talban 75,000 fighters), then the Afghan Army must have abandoned the battlefields.
Map shows jihadis flocking to Afghanistan to launch terror war!:
Must not have been much of "stronghold".
But then the Left can change the definition of men and women, the definition of normal and deviant, and now the definition of stronghold
The Taliban offered W Bin Laden in 2001
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5
We spent decades and a ton of money “Training” their forces.
If their people are unwilling to fight for their freedom no amount
of Training or Money can help them.
Let them go back to what they have always been.
A Warlord Society.
Thus far Biden has made it a prior to get Afghan nationals out of Afghanistan, not Americans. He will have a major disaster on his hands if the Taliban make to the embassy and Americans are their. 1,200 Afghani Muslim pieces of excrement were airlifted out by the US on Thursday. That could have been Americans.
My SIL is in Kabul with the 82nd. I certainly do not want his career tarnished by a mission that is a complete Charlie Foxtrot. Worse yet, I don't want him injured or killed so a pedophile prophet worshiping POS can immigrate to America. My grandson deserves a father more than any Muslim deserves to immigrate to America. America First means American Lives First. Muslims Lives Do Matter.
Prayers for your SIL and all of our troops and staff there, will be ongoing off and on all day and this evening.
This is horrid. We really need Trump.
Abandoning Bagram AFB in the dark of night, with no notice to the ANA, so that we now have no way to stage and fly tactical missions into and out of A-stan, other than from Kabul Int'l Airport (now jammed full of evacuees and civilian refugees.)
If we still had Bagram, we could use it to handle tactical fighters and troop transports, enough to keep the Taliban at bay until we evacuated Kabul. Taking off, reloading and landing at Bagram, instead of hours and hours away.
Without Bagram AFB, we are reduced to flying tactical missions from very long range. This gives the Taliban an immense OODA loop advantage. The Taliban now has local air assets (ex Russian Hips, ex U.S. Blackhawks), artillery up to 155mm howitzers, etc. This means they can move troops and artillery around much faster than we can respond with air missions from approx. 1,000 miles away.
Now, the Taliban can shut down Kabul Intl' anytime they choose, using local forces under their control. We are 100% at their mercy. A total debacle. Every general involved should be busted to private and then fired without a pension.
Or shot.
Thank you for your prayers. My SIL would certainly feel moved by knowing that there are people praying. May the Holy Spirit be felt by all our troops and give them strength as they go into battle with the devil’s forces.
Afghan Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum and Tajik leader Atta Mohammad Noor fled to Hayratan Border Pass with Uzbekistan about 5 hours ago.
That’s it, charter flights arriving in Kabul now, evacuating foreign nationals.
Our ambassador is likely to evac in 36 hours. Power is out in Kabul, airstrikes heard in the south of Kabul. There is one Afghan division and and a special operations corps left in Kabul. Estimated 70% of all the weapons and vehicles and aircraft are in Taliban hands.
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