Nicola Careem
@NicolaCareem
This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I've seen from #Afghanistan. A people who are desperate and abandoned. No aid agencies, no UN, no government. Nothing.
Posted on 08/16/2021 4:13:03 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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 converged in hopes of getting on an evacuation flight as the insurgents consolidate their control over the capital.
Witnesses reported seeing the prone, bloodied bodies lying on the ground just outside the terminal building.
The U.S. military took over security of the airport to facilitate a massive airlift of foreign diplomats and citizens after the Afghan government collapsed on Sunday. Those evacuation flights are processed on a separate military side of the airport.
Officials at the U.S. Central Command weren’t immediately available for comment...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/3-fall-off-plane-some-huddled-on-aircraft-wing-in-kabul-mayhem-2511643
Insane if real …
They’re prepping the public for the 25th Amendment.
Ya see this is what they want, they’re back in the business of making money
There is no way to continue flight operations on an airport swarming with thousands of panicked civilians.
There will have to be a significant force of soldiers to drive these civilians off the active runways and taxiways and force them into a holding area.
I personally don’t think the thousands of Americans apparently still in Kabul can get out alive.
It would take a massive re-invasion force to not only clear the airport but drive the Taliban far away from the airport.
We already have 6,000 troops deployed there which is not nearly enough to fight the Taliban reported to have 60,000 fighters.
I don’t see how we can even evacuate our existing 6,000 troops without them being slaughtered as they are surrounded.
This fiasco is only going to get worse and reach biblical proportions.
Is there a “commander in chief” somewhere ?
I guess the “lie-beral” puppet has is CARTER’s moment ....
Must be called as it is
In his basement bunker in Delaware in fetal position. :)
Yes. Sadly he was thrown out of office after four years of non-stop venom thrown his way by an out-of-control communist insurgency in our own country.
Google Arclight ;-)
It would clear out the riff-raff. Lot of FOD to deal with though.
And NO WOMEN! These are all fighting-age men leaving women, children, and the elderly behind to be ravaged and savaged by the Taliban!
Do not forget this scene! It’s ridiculous to think these people have the same morals, beliefs, desires, or dreams as us!
Sorry, but that is the plain and simple TRUTH!
Why on earth did the US abandon Bagram AFB six weeks ago when there were still thousands of Americans on the ground? You would thank that would be the LAST place to relinquish.
https://apnews.com/article/bagram-afghanistan-airfield-us-troops-f3614828364f567593251aaaa167e623
Evacuating the military before the civilians made zero sense. As did abandoning Bagram. Massively bad planning, an epic blunder.
As far Kabul Airport goes, we have thousands of troops there. They need to clear the tarmac and if that means bashing heads, well it is sad but necessary. Got to stop acting like the Portland or Seattle PD. We should not have foreign civilians crawling all over our aircraft. We have paratroopers and Marines there - the brass needs to let them loose. Clear the tarmac and terminals.
Instead Republicans have probably gone on vacation and are just ignoring what is happening. They are allowing the media to claim that Biden is just doing what Trump planned.
A second huge difference is that Trump planned to be out by May 1. The Taliban sink back into Pakistan for most of the winter and early spring when the beginnings of the transition would’ve been happening under Trump’s plan. Summer is the Taliban‘s fighting and organizational time. Thus changing the withdrawal date to late summer just gave the Taliban time to organize and be ready to take over without any conditions.
“..Why on earth did the US abandon Bagram AFB six weeks ago..”
and left in the middle of the night. Afghan forces were not told. They awoke in the AM and the place was deserted. Cowardliness!
There were women running through the parking lot but I hadn’t noticed that it’s young men on the ladder.
WHen I heard Biden Admin plans to relocate 30K Afghanis in the US almost immediately, I thought of ‘fighting-age men’. This would be Biden’s chance to get an army of his own to help ‘put down’ protests.
It’s almost as dangerous as Chicago on a week day?
Wonder if anybody stopped to think that the Marines could get stranded there. Could the Taliban decide to take on the Marines with their grossly superior numbers? I would bet everything I have there is no back up plan. You can’t land planes on a runway full of vehicles or people. This has the potential to get very bad. I just can’t seem to muster any sympathy at all for Afghans. They had their chance and they threw it away.
3 killed. Really?
Just wait for the 30,000+ who die from this treachery.
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