Posted on 08/18/2021 8:44:57 AM PDT by Avalon Memories
The U.S. has no plans to evacuate Americans in Afghanistan who are located outside Kabul, according to a report Tuesday.
Officials from various departments — including State and Defense — informed Senate staffers at a Tuesday morning briefing that they do not know of a way to get those Americans through Taliban checkpoints located outside Kabul, the location of the main airport, The Washington Post reported, citing two Senate aides.
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s office set up a hotline for Americans — including those who are essentially "trapped behind Taliban lines," The Military Times reported.
"The situation is dire," the Arkansas Republican said. "But we’ll do everything in our power to help keep you informed and to help get you out."
A former State Department contractor told Fox News that Taliban fighters have also established checkpoints throughout Kabul and around the airport. Some, the source said, have been beating people on the way to the airport.
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This is going well.
Failure to plan is planning for failure.
State Department and Pentagon are still in their Nervous Breakdown
I think this is highly urgent breaking news, but don’t know your criteria for putting articles in that category. If you agree, please put this in breaking news. Thanks.
Stolen Elections have consequences.
It’s obvious they didn’t have a withdrawal plan and have no further plans to protect American citizens at home or abroad. If they were serious, they would have a WIDE OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER.
Then Biden needs to step down in humiliation, and he can take Blinken with him.
I thought there would have been a “Contingency Plan” written for this scenario decades ago. Isn’t that what the military usually does? i.e. “What if Canada dropped a bomb on New York City? How would the USA react?” We planned for that, but not this?
Biden to address the nation about booster vaccines at 2pm.
The fact that 15,000 (or more) Americans are trapped in Afghanistan with no plan by the Administration to get them out is the most negligent, malignant failure of any president in history. Even Woodrow Wilson’s terrible handling of the Spanish Flu pandemic is not as bad as this. Biden and all his appointed DoD, State, National Security and intelligence scum need to resign.
Private contractors that have been encouraged by the state department, left behind along with others. This is the biggest embarrassment in US history. They will all be or are already dead. “Leave no one behind” This is worse than what the US did in Laos and Vietnam.
Biden and Harris both need to be impeached. If ever there was an impeachable offense, this is it. They were almost certainly told not to withdraw in the fashion that was done to avoid having things like this occur and ignored the warnings.
When you withdraw from a place, you withdraw the military last - after the civilians, equipment, etc. Not the military first and then the other things. You don’t have to have any military training to know that.
Congressman on tv just said he spoke with a Afgan who served as a medic. They told him when they find were he is they are going,g to burn him alive.
Bidens POW’s
Seriously, they had absolutely no intention of evacuating Americans in Afghanistan. Think about that. They just rolled up the planes, ran away, and deliberately surrendered all the women and children and other Americans to the fate of the barbarians.
Let it sink in just what they have done and how evil and cowardly that is!
Come on GOP. Hammer home this wouldn’t be a problem if we still had Bagram.
This is ALL on Biden and Milley, etc.
?? Most of them would probably be classed as right wing terror threats if they were returned home ??
The Taliban who have taken over are still wearing robes and turbans while our guys are wearing flak jackets and helmets. I don't know how well the Taliban know how to use the equipment we left behind, but our guys do.
-PJ
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