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Rampant Taliban ransack the palatial home of top Afghan warlord and US ally General Dostum amid claims fighters have reached the outskirts of Kabul which will fall in HOURS while Brits and Americans evacuate
Daily Mail UK ^ | 14 Aug 2021 | Tom Pyman

Posted on 08/14/2021 9:32:50 PM PDT by blueplum

Insurgents tightened grip on Afghanistan by capturing Mazar-e-Sharif - a heavily defended city in the north

Fighters were then filmed raiding the luxurious home of infamous warlord Army Marshal Rashid Dostum

In a statement last night, US President Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan army for the carnage

He said he 'will not pass this war onto a fifth president' and criticsed the Afghan Army for failing to fight

Taliban fighters have invaded the palatial home of top Afghan warlord and US ally and videoed themselves lounging on his gold furniture and inspecting his golden tea set - as their advance closes on capital Kabul amid a scramble to get Westerners out.

General Rashid Dostum's home is in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif which fell to the Taliban yesterday and now there are claims that the advancing fighters have reached the outskirts of Kabul.

Dostum was a key US ally during the 20 year campaign against the Taliban and famously fought with the Special Forces 'horse soldiers' shortly after 9/11.

...In a statement last night, Biden blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan army for the carnage and said his predecessor cut a deal that left the warlords 'in the strongest position militarily since 2001'.

He said: One more year, or five more years, of US military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; asshole; bidenswaterloo; blamegame; foreignpolicy; kabul; military; stupidasshole
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To: allendale
Once again American blood will be shed on hehalf of vile, wothless politicians

Pray for our troops. They are being placed in harms way when Biden could avoided all of this. Pray that their blood is not on Biden's hands and that God delivers them from this Muslim infested hellhole.

21 posted on 08/14/2021 9:55:25 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: blueplum
...In a statement last night, Biden blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan army for the carnage ...

NOT what Biden was saying last month.

22 posted on 08/14/2021 9:56:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: allendale

great assessment. you nailed it.


23 posted on 08/14/2021 9:56:38 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: Jay W

they’ve got airpower now:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893929/Taliban-fighters-control-skies-Afghanistan-seizing-mi-17-helicopters.html


24 posted on 08/14/2021 9:57:39 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Shadow44

for $88 Billion we got 1 months worth of a collapsing Afghan army. How’s that for ROI.


25 posted on 08/14/2021 9:57:55 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: blueplum

keep in mind that any US civilians in Afghanistan
are there only for the money


26 posted on 08/14/2021 9:58:53 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: LumberJack53213
Here's what Biden said last month:

“The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstances where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the United States from Afghanistan.” — Joe Biden, quoted in The Hill, 8/13/21

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/567835-mcconnell-calls-for-us-air-strikes-to-stop-taliban-advance

27 posted on 08/14/2021 9:58:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: libh8er

This nutso operation has nothing to do with Bush or Barry.

President Trump had it under control.

Dementia Joe has now endangered the life of everyone.


28 posted on 08/14/2021 9:59:55 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: RockyTx

They are there for the expertise.

The money follows that. If you don’t have a clue what the military needs, I doubt you are there.


29 posted on 08/14/2021 10:02:48 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Jay W

The glaring difference....the south Vietnamese tried to fight. The Afghani’s gave up in huge numbers before any fighting. Heck, many (most?) are either sympathetic or supporters of the Taliban anyway. They were just all too happy to take the American tax dollars to pretend to care about their 7th century “country.”


30 posted on 08/14/2021 10:06:13 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: AnthonySoprano

Nice find!


31 posted on 08/14/2021 10:06:42 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: GOPJ

3,000 American dead , 20,000 wounded , 2.5 trillion spent , 90 billion given to the Afghan military only to lose the entire country in less than 600 hours .. Well done General Mark Milley


32 posted on 08/14/2021 10:07:26 PM PDT by LumberJack53213
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To: blueplum

I am sure glad I paid taxes to buy a gold tea set for an Afghani warlord.


33 posted on 08/14/2021 10:07:42 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: GOPJ

Wonder if dementia in chief and his woke generals have figured out how many troops will be required to evacuate the 5000 he just sent.


34 posted on 08/14/2021 10:10:30 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: blueplum

i saw a pic of the taliban posing with US SCAN/EAGLE DRONES...brand new in the crates....4 million dollars a pop....you know the chinese and the russians cant wait to get their hands on those babies. This is the worst military debacle in US history...milley..biden..all of em ..just resign. Their legacies are destroyed...


35 posted on 08/14/2021 10:13:12 PM PDT by basalt
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To: redcatcherb412

Good point/question!


36 posted on 08/14/2021 10:13:20 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Jay W

I was just a teenager at the time, but Vietnam was not like Afghanistan, in that we were just pulling out of the southern portion of Vietnam.

We basically held Afghanistan completely.

The taliban had a plan, and executed it.

They were basically out of public view until we stood down, then they just marched on in.

Sad so many did not see the possibility.


37 posted on 08/14/2021 10:13:20 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Oh geeze!! Just invite them to the WH for dinner, why don’t cha??

Carter redux.

Next up : Neville Chamberlain.


38 posted on 08/14/2021 10:15:35 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: ConservativeInPA

I have been praying. Still up and praying.


39 posted on 08/14/2021 10:16:54 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: GOPJ

Thanks for keeping that out there.


40 posted on 08/14/2021 10:18:38 PM PDT by MarMema
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