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U.S. Considers Ordering Commercial Airlines to Help in Afghan Evacuation
Wall Street Journal ^ | 8/21/20 | Gordon Lubold & Alison Sider

Posted on 08/21/2021 4:36:30 PM PDT by Bearshouse

The Biden administration is making preparations to invoke an emergency civil aviation program, while adding to the number of U.S. bases that can house Afghan evacuees

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airlift; airlines; treason; wsj
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To: Bearshouse

Dumbkirk


81 posted on 08/21/2021 6:14:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bearshouse; All

Biden admin charging americans $2000 to be evacuated from Afghanistan

https://www.wnd.com/2021/08/biden-admin-evacuating-americans-afghanistan-price/


82 posted on 08/21/2021 6:16:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: KingLudd

Yep, Hillary’s Stinger Missiles may be used against us. Benghazi could come back to haunt Obama and her.....


83 posted on 08/21/2021 6:20:36 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Bearshouse

If there is a way to make a wrong decision, the Democrats will find it !


84 posted on 08/21/2021 6:21:56 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Bearshouse

Man, only if they planned for every contingency... oh, wait.


85 posted on 08/21/2021 6:23:06 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (F*ck Joe Biden!)
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To: Clean_Sweep
We did leave stinger missiles. Pictures have already surfaced on the internet.

Wait till one brings down a commercial airliner in THIS country.

86 posted on 08/21/2021 6:24:19 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Bearshouse

Our son is a civilian pilot. He won’t be in on this shite.


87 posted on 08/21/2021 6:24:54 PM PDT by boknows
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To: Bearshouse

Compelling an airline is one thing. Compelling their pilots might be another.


88 posted on 08/21/2021 6:26:53 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Bearshouse

Sure would be nice if the United States had an organization whose mission was to protect American citizens from foreign threats.

Maybe we should create one.

We would want to distract the US military from its mission of promulgating Critical Racist Theory.


89 posted on 08/21/2021 6:28:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Bearshouse

If our military transports cannot fill up their cargo compartments, what would be the point of commercial airlines?


90 posted on 08/21/2021 6:32:29 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Bearshouse

What’s wrong with our military?

And Biden does not own the airlines that he can order them around.


91 posted on 08/21/2021 6:47:26 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…. )
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To: Bearshouse

Will they be allowed to carry box cutters on board?


92 posted on 08/21/2021 7:10:56 PM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: KingLudd

Now watch me as I hold up the seat belt and buckle it.
(Do they still do that? Haven’t flown for a long, long time.)

And will refugees get the frequent flier miles? Will Halal meals be available at all stopovers?

One more question, will rental cars be available for each refugee in the close lot or do they all have to take shuttles?

Back to the military cargo transport planes. Oh, well.


93 posted on 08/21/2021 7:26:05 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: Bearshouse

I’d be flying C-17’s and C-5’s round the clock, bringing armor and infantry to the airport. I’d be emplacing artillery, and mortar pits all around the airport, digging in, and militarizing that airport, so that our troops on the ground have some real military infrastructure at their backs, should the SHTF. Meanwhile, such a force build up would make a lot of those Taliban nervous, and perhaps, restore a shred of credibility to the US Military. Constantly enlarging the perimeter, until Kabul is within the confines of the US military controlled area. But, I’d probably have to cancel my vacation to do such things.


94 posted on 08/21/2021 7:26:46 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: Bearshouse
Department of Transportation Civil Reserve Fleet

The Civil Reserve Air Fleet is a cooperative, voluntary program involving the DOT, DOD and the U.S. civil air carrier industry in a partnership to augment DOD aircraft capability during a national defense related crisis, Air carriers volunteer their aircraft to the CRAF program through contractual agreements with U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), located at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. In return, the participating carriers are given preference in carrying commercial peacetime cargo and passenger traffic for DOD.

95 posted on 08/21/2021 7:27:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: billorites

Photo of seated swinging man-about-town cosmopolitan Arab guy:
“Hey, chick. I kinda dig your hijab. Do you have a date for the beheadings tonight?”


96 posted on 08/21/2021 7:31:13 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: Dacula
Two flights just left in the last half hour. One is USAF, the other was a Spanish AF plane. They are out of danger.

The exit routes are very convoluted, as if they are avoiding areas suspected of containing anti-aircraft missiles.

There is some kind of USAF patrol craft making a very large circle around the abandoned Bagram base, which brings it near Kabul.

97 posted on 08/21/2021 7:42:24 PM PDT by flamberge (Time has run out. Work with what you've got.)
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To: Bearshouse

Just don’t send over any Boeing 737Max models.


98 posted on 08/21/2021 7:59:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: KingLudd

Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Look it up.


99 posted on 08/21/2021 9:14:13 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Rebelbase

1) Put CCP markings on those aircraft.

2) Use a neutron bomb on Bagram. Fly out of there.


100 posted on 08/21/2021 11:06:53 PM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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