Posted on 08/15/2021 7:04:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is evacuating remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as the Taliban enter the Afghan capital. But he is playing down America’s hasty exit, saying “this is manifestly not Saigon.”
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Blinken said: “The compound itself, our folks are leaving there, and moving to the airport.”
Blinken also confirmed that U.S. Embassy workers were destroying documents and other items ahead of fleeing the embassy, but insisted “this is being done in a very deliberate way, it’s being done in an orderly way, and it’s being done with American forces there to make sure we can do it in a safe way.”
The evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul had U.S. military helicopters lifting off from embassy grounds Sunday, and sent puffs of black smoke up into the skies over Kabul as U.S. officials worked to keep sensitive material from falling in Taliban hands.
The scene comes after President Joe Biden earlier this year played down any idea that the Taliban could capture the country, or that the Afghanistan war would end up in scenes reminiscent of the Vietnam one, with military helicopters taking off from embassy rooftops.
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Babylon Bee?
Biden has agreed to pay the ransom.
Obama paid the ransom at Benghazi.
The Democrats understand payoffs.
The American taxpayers pay the ransom and the Democrat Party Crime Syndicate will get a cut.
I wonder if the taliban has enough discipline to wait for the 20th anniversary of 9/11 before blowing up the embassy.
Freegards
Are we going to level the embassy or just hand it over?
Biden and his ilk have no clue what to do.
So will we now pay for vaccinations for taliban
I am so disgusted at the amount of money that was spent on that hell hole
Nope.
Why don’t you post that a few more times. I didn’t see it on the other 75 threads where you’ve been posting it since last night. /sarcasm off/
The fireside chats from the president are very comforting.
Biden must be functioning on less than 18 hours sleep?
Will we see pictures of Biden closely monitoring this from The Situation Hot Tub?
This will be the theme, totally predictable and media will lie. Biden will be a hero by the time this is over and all while Joe was on vacation. Count on it.
And Biden is opening our doors to some of these “wonderful” helpers?? Let’s think about it.
I’m not forcing you to read.
If you don’t like what I write, go back to watching cartoons.
Lol! That is what I was thinking of!
Which means it’s total chaos. Coming up: “No helicopters landing on the embassy roof.”
This might be a little different. The world is going to blame us. Media cant hide that
If I were a member of the Biden administration I think I’d be bailing out like right about now. There’s still honest work at Jiffy Lube.
Orderly is a word used by criminal democrats to mean chaotic and deadly.
It is always opposite day in the democrat party.
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