Posted on 08/21/2021 10:10:58 AM PDT by RummyChick
The White House confirmed that the U.S military used three military helicopters to rescue 169 Americans outside Kabul Airport who were trapped at a nearby hotel.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed that on Thursday three U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopters were dispatched to rescue Americans at the nearby Baron Hotel, near Hamid Karzai International Airport.
The group of Americans were initially going to walk through the gate of the hotel but a large crowd gathered in front of the hotel and it wasn't deemed safe, defenseone.com reported.
Further details on the nature of the crowd - and whether it was comprised of Taliban fighters - have not been shared.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
There must be some mistake.
This undermines Joseph Stolen’s “America Last” policy.
at least some Americans got out safely
Eh, I think they were blocked by Biden.
didnt clarissa ward claim taliban were peaceful or some such thing
https://twitter.com/clarissaward/status/1428836195237236738
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Just landed in Doha with the team and nearly 300 Afghan evacuees. Huge thanks to all of you for your support and concern, to the US Air Force for flying us out and to Qatar for welcoming us. We are the lucky ones.
Kinda reminds me of the Katrina aftermath. Pinned it on Bush. Worked too.
Probably one of the more important pigs was there and the rest could not be avoided.
I’ll bet that decision was a real spell binder.
Somebody found both their balls and their marbles to order that movement.
If you can secure a hotel and helicopter evac people from there why is it that the fortified $770 million dollar embassy would not have done the same and better function as the hotel? And what of those 7 perfectly good and functional helicopters state department used to get their people out of the embassy and then destroyed? Wouldn’t they also have worked for evacuation?
How about if the fools had kept Bagram and shuttled people there by helicopter instead of Karzi airport surrounded by Afgans? Bagram could have been sort of like an aircraft carrier 24 miles offshore?
I guess that is another stupid question for a mere subject like me to ask.
Embassy the citadel and Bagram the aircraft carrier? Nah, never mind, that is a stupid idea.
Its about time we started going out and picking up folks who have grouped together.
I’m surprised that the Deep State isn’t taking advantage of their golden opportunity to kidnap thousands of Americans to essentially dictate what they want, such as: the dismantling of US miltary, transfer of all US military assets to UN command, prisoner trade of Americans for Donald Trump, etc. Really scary times.
Significant that the hotel is only a mile from Kabul Airport, and that they had to use helicopters to transport the Americans. No way the U.S. is going to be able to get thousands more Americans, or anyone else, out of the country at this rate.
Could have been doing this everyday.
“wonder if there was a VIP there?”
...or journalists and their crews and dual-citizen or SIV interpreters/families?
They were near the airport gate. The soldiers just pulled them inside. What about the thousands trapped in the city?!?!?
“Could have been doing this everyday.”
Exactly what I have been wondering. Seems like helicopter teams of Special Forces or Seals would be arranging pickup points and extracting them away from the airport.
That was exactly what I got from this. No doubt special treatment that they are using as an example of competency.
But the brits, French and Germans military are doing just that, but American military can’t.
But remember, OrangeManBad™ and NoMeanTweets™
Yes this whole thing is stinky cheese. Has been from the beginning.
That video of her cut out the part where she adds, "It's utterly bizarre."
She wasn't being sympathetic to the Taliban. She was right - the way they were chanting "Death to America!" but acting like they were friendly was utterly bizarre.
She's the same reporter who said, "If this isn't failure, what does failure look like exactly?"
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