Posted on 08/15/2021 4:03:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Priorities...
Just like how shocked Obummer was when gas shot up to $6 a gallon. ITS ALL PART OF THEIR PLAN!
Anyone who calls himself Zeke, shouldn’t be taken seriously, in any of his/her/it’s endeavors….
Biden’s team is surprised by the sun coming up each morning.
So - I’m confused.
Are large numbers of Americans leaving Kabul Airport on US military transport aircraft which are protected on the ground by USMC and in the air by combat air patrols? Or not?
If those fights are operating without interference, and if stranded Americans are being convoyed to Gate USA by our soldiers, this could actually turn out OK.
July 08, 2021: "The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable. " "the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely." - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan/
Aug 13, 2021: I don’t know exactly what they are doing, but we had conditions attached to how we were thinking about this withdrawal — I was part of those negotiations,” Pompeo said. “I was also in the room when President Trump made very clear to Mullah Baradar, the senior Taliban negotiator, that if you threatened an American, if you scared an American, certainly if you hurt an American, that we would bring all American power to bear to make sure that we went to your village, to your house. We were very clear about the things we were prepared to do to protect American lives. And indeed, since we began those negotiations back in February of 2020, there wasn’t a single American killed by the Taliban. We had established a deterrence model.” - https://www.foxnews.com/media/pompeo-biden-failing-to-execute-afghan-withdrawal-trump-warned-taliban-of-consequences
8/14/21" Biden doubled down on his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in a White House statement earlier today, blaming the Trump administration for signing a deal with the Taliban that left them "in the strongest position militarily since 2001." - Newsweek
August 15, 2021" "Helicopters buzzed overhead as part of an evacuation of personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Several other Western missions were also preparing to get staff out." - Boston Globe
August 15, 2021" Now, months after his initial declaration that all 2,500 US troops would be out of Afghanistan by the end of the summer, a total of 6,000 troops are expected to help facilitate the evacuation. - CNN
Aug 16, 2021 " At least three people were killed by gunfire Monday morning in chaotic scenes at the passenger terminal of Kabul’s international airport, where thousands of Afghans who fear for their lives after the Taliban takeover of the country... - WSJ.
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