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How long will the Kabul airlift last? Around 40,000 Brits, US nationals and Afghans hope to be evacuated which could take a MONTH... unless they are abandoned and left behind by the West
Daily Mail ^ | 16:36 EDT, 16 August 2021 | Henry Martin

Posted on 08/16/2021 5:10:57 PM PDT by BusterDog

"The evacuation of some 40,000 Brits, Americans and Afghans who sided with the West from Taliban-occupied Kabul is set to take weeks while thousands of people camp out at the US-controlled Kabul airport."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistandebacle; bidenadm; bidensfault; kabul; kabulairlift
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I think the Taliban exceeded their own expectations.

They can't handle and do not want 40,000 hostages. They will probably pick a couple of thousand to keep.

I don't think Biden can buy them back, and I don't think Biden can take them back by force.

I think he will have to agree to not defend Taiwan and to not sell Taiwan any more weapons to get them back.

It's a Catch-22, with China rising any way he goes about it.

1 posted on 08/16/2021 5:10:57 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

The following is foaf

off another news/ message board
from on ground report.

Journalists
are being executed outright
Christians are being executed
Missionaries executed
Westerners being executed
Any who worked with or for westerners being executed
Those trying to get to the airport being executed.
Girls 12 and above given as booty to tallies for sex slavery and marriage.

We will not get the majority of those thousands of u.s
citizens evacuated imho.

Pentagon presser knows nothing about our citizens
and when asked referred the questions to state department.

So it’s a good bet those afganies flown
to Wisconsin and Texas are probably mostly talies
to be let loose on our country imho

If they were trying to get as many out as possible
why fly halfway around the globe
instead of somewhere closer
where they could minimize the turn around time
and maximize how many could be evacuated?
No good reason so those evax flights
have suspicious motives imho.

And most of our citizens will be never be heard of or talked about again imho

And our forces on the ground might not make it out of afganistan imho.

Pray for citizens


2 posted on 08/16/2021 5:15:42 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: C19fan; Army Air Corps
For your interest.
3 posted on 08/16/2021 5:15:57 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: BusterDog

There are so many thousands of people, not all westerners, but including various international contractors, business people, and local civilians who acted as interpreters or functionaries (who may end up standing accused of treason by the Taliban). What a mess they made by not planing an orderly exit and safe transport for everyone who lent support to our efforts over the last 20 years. The pulled the troops out before securing the civilians leaving them all exposed.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 5:17:00 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BusterDog

So all the relatives and friends and neighbors of the thousands waiting over there in harm’s way will be afraid. That’s a lot of local news interviews.

Then the killings will start. A renegade or two kill some Westerners, then evidence is found that the leaders planned it, then more killings. Then big increase in American guard troops engaging with the enemy. It’s called war.

Idea: If Americans gain the upper hand the terrorists can round up some hostages and threaten to torture them to death unless the US backs off.

Some “safe and orderly evacuation.”


5 posted on 08/16/2021 5:17:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: BusterDog

Thanks a lot Rat/RINO uniparty. Like Mark Levin said months ago: “Joe Biden is the absolute worst President at the absolute worst time” and we are seeing the results of that, and just think - it’s just beginning.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 5:18:40 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: BusterDog

Of course the Taliban want to flood the West with their agents.


7 posted on 08/16/2021 5:19:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: monkeyshine

“There are so many thousands of people, not all westerners, but including various international contractors, business people, and local civilians who acted as interpreters or functionaries (who may end up standing accused of treason by the Taliban).”

*****

God help those people, and any Christian in Afghanistan.


8 posted on 08/16/2021 5:19:15 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: cuz1961

“Journalists
are being executed outright
Christians are being executed
Missionaries executed
Westerners being executed
Any who worked with or for westerners being executed
Those trying to get to the airport being executed.
Girls 12 and above given as booty to tallies for sex slavery and marriage.”

*****

I’m sure some of that’s happening, but I think the Taliban’s plan in concert with the CCP is to hold them for a longer term and bigger prize, that’s why you can’t negotiate or buy them out.


9 posted on 08/16/2021 5:20:54 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: cuz1961

Really surprising they did not coordinate with Pakistan or India to turn the planes around quickly. Really surprising they pulled the military defense out without considering what would happen to the tens of thousands who worked to support our efforts. Really surprising they did not create an orderly system to bring people in phases and into a secure green zone well in advance of troop withdrawals.

I am in favor, in general principle, of getting out of Afghanistan but abandoning our allies and supporters like this is outrageous and demoralizing on a human level, and on a diplomatic and international relations level.


10 posted on 08/16/2021 5:21:06 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Thank God Biden and the leftists are bringing the Afghani jihadist to America before our own American troops and citizens! /sarc

Now that is how you enable a coup.

11 posted on 08/16/2021 5:23:20 PM PDT by WMarshal (The Pleasant American )
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To: monkeyshine

The elites in DC dgaf.

It is just that simple.

They have no humanity or respect for their fellow human beings.

They are sociopaths.


12 posted on 08/16/2021 5:24:17 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BusterDog
C-17 leaving Kabul with no standing room


13 posted on 08/16/2021 5:26:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, China, Cuba, Canada, the UK, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
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To: Grampa Dave

Taliban filled direct flight to kill us .
The Biden and BLM military are dangerous and insane .

Shoot it down .


14 posted on 08/16/2021 5:27:50 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger l)
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To: monkeyshine

“I am in favor, in general principle, of getting out of Afghanistan but abandoning our allies and supporters like this is outrageous and demoralizing on a human level, and on a diplomatic and international relations level.”

*****

You can’t leave them there, it weakens the US so much globally, we won’t be seen as the sole super power anymore and China, Russia and Iran can be much more aggressive to get what they want. Conflicts in multiple regions.

You can’t agree to give up Tiawan. China would then have a strangle hold on strategic resources.

The problem with war is that not only the international community and your allies don’t want it, but we the people don’t want it, either, and you’d have to admit to everyone what the world is really like and give up your identity politics games.

Like I said, it’s a no win situation, and I think Biden stepped right in China’s trap.


15 posted on 08/16/2021 5:29:49 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

cuz1961 to SE Mom
How reliable is this source?

It’s from a poster from a board I’ve been around for 20 years, I beleive it’s genuine.

It’s foaf with in country contact so...ymmv.

When was the last westerners journalist video from afganistan you have seen ?

That would be one way to judge it.


16 posted on 08/16/2021 5:30:22 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: BusterDog

AITA here? I feel the same way about “westerners in Afghanistan” as I do about people in the path of hurricanes. You had PLENTY OF WARNING to evacuate, yet you decided to just sit there, believing everything will be OK. And now that it’s all gone to SHEET (which everyone KNEW IT WOULD!), you want sympathy, and/or heroics to get you out.

Sorry you’re there. Should have planned better.


17 posted on 08/16/2021 5:30:45 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Grampa Dave

I saw that story, they are on that plane because they forced their way on to that plane and the pilot decided to take off.

Those Afghan people are in that situation because they trusted and believed in us.


18 posted on 08/16/2021 5:31:19 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Grampa Dave

"Ooops!   Forgot my mask."

19 posted on 08/16/2021 5:32:43 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: cgbg

“They have no humanity or respect for their fellow human beings.

They are sociopaths.“

They are really just foolish.
They can’t see a blinding light in front of them. They are inbred and inward looking.
A group of farmers put together from Alabama, Texas and Iowa would have done a much better assessment of this situation than the deep state failures that cooked up this cluster f$&@.

The deep state screwed this bigger than any disaster in decades .


20 posted on 08/16/2021 5:32:50 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton’s )
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