Posted on 08/16/2021 7:40:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
Edited on 08/16/2021 7:53:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The United States has suspended operations at Karzai International Airport in order to clear the airfield of Afghans attempting to flee from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
The U.S. took control of airport operations over the weekend after Taliban militants took over Kabul and toppled the Afghan government. The airport has become the center for embassy operations as well after U.S. officials and personnel abandoned the U.S. embassy on Sunday.
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AP: Biden administration is currently in negotiations with Boeing (NYS-BA) to retrofit it’s military transport planes with external seatbelts. The administration is seeking fastening belts attached to the outside of the planes for easy runway access.
A complete fustercluck.
Utter disaster.
L
They think a plane ride is like a train ride ?
This is going well.
Dementiajoe's puppetmaster has already planned for them to be be sacrificed to the Taliban.
Any live video feeds from the airport?
America? Afghanistan? The White House? Or, all the above?
They live in the 7th century........................
Maybe the Dems are thinking twice about shutting down that base
IDIOTS.
Dems own this.
they should have just taken off and let idiots find out they win the Darwin award for stupidity
Visions of Saigon!
Yet the news media is blaming it all on Trump.
Is the Biden Admin planning to bring these things to the US ?
I was reminded of those 9/11 photos of people jumping from the Twin Towers. Jumping from a skyscraper was actually preferable to the horror of staying inside the burning building.
Now you have people who would prefer to hopelessly cling to a departing jet aircraft than to face the horror of the incoming Taliban.
A failure of Progressive, DC bureaucrat thinking all the way back to Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski first got the USA into Afghanistan, supplying the “Afghan rebels” and goading the Soviets into an invasion.
The Russians used to have troops ride on the wings of planes. Maybe byedone should look into that.
I believe they are really afraid of planes being shot down during landing or take off.
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