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Situation Deteriorating at Kabul Airport, Hardened Soldiers Tell Reporter the Truth
The Western Journal ^ | August 21, 2021 | Kipp Jones

Posted on 08/22/2021 5:36:01 AM PDT by george76

A harrowing report from outside the airport in Kabul shows that the situation in Afghanistan has gotten so dangerous, tense and time-sensitive that even battle-hardened troops said they have never seen anything like it.

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“Every day the scene outside the British evacuation camp changes, every day it seems to get worse and this day there is a new sense of desperation,” ..

“Collectively I think the thousands queuing outside in burning temperatures know that the clock is ticking on how long this airlift will go on for.”

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Most of them will remain,..

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“Beyond the containers and beyond a line of paratroopers standing behind riot shields, it is quite simply horrendous,” ..

The situation at the airport gate is now the epicenter of desperation as more and more people flood to the city’s airport every day.

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situation as “utterly horrendous,” noting that swelling crowds have bunched together and several people are believed to have died on Saturday morning.

Despite President Joe Biden’s decision to downplay the humanitarian crisis in Kabul, the situation is challenging members of the military who have served in combat for years, ..

Soldiers who spoke to Ramsay said the situation on Saturday was the “worst thing they have ever seen in their entire careers,”

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Americans, Britons and Canadians are struggling to break through the line, but some are not finding any success. The situation seems more perilous for Afghanis who know what fate they face if they remain when the rescue operation concludes.

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George Stephanopoulos .. told Biden of reports of “pandemonium outside the airport.”

Biden responded, “Oh, there is. But, look — but no one’s being killed right now, .

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airport; kabul; rout; surrender; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/22/2021 5:36:01 AM PDT by george76
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biden is totally responsible for this. He made an agreement with the taliban to do just this.


2 posted on 08/22/2021 5:39:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: george76

It is infuriating to know it didnt have to be this way but biden handlers deemed it so. It cant just be incompetence


3 posted on 08/22/2021 5:40:32 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: george76

I don’t give a shit whether Biden is too brain-addled to understand what’s happening; I hope there’s a special place in Hell awaiting him and his entire administration.


4 posted on 08/22/2021 5:42:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: RummyChick
"It cant just be incompetence"

Agreed. I've been wondering a LOT lately if it's blackmail...stuff from (one of) Humper's laptops that's so bad that if it were released could end Biden's presidency in short order.

5 posted on 08/22/2021 5:43:58 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: RummyChick

Yeah, it could, and probably is, just incompetence. If I thought Bidet was traitor, I would actually be less worried.


6 posted on 08/22/2021 5:44:52 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Fai Mao

If Biden was running things I might agree with you..but i dont believe he is


7 posted on 08/22/2021 5:46:32 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

Who benefits = the enemies of America who have bribed Biden, Obama, and their pals... Not just incompetence.


8 posted on 08/22/2021 5:47:47 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Nothing to see here. Move along.


9 posted on 08/22/2021 5:47:48 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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It’s going to get worse. I can see a suicide bomber setting himself off in the middle of the crowd. Or the taliban or isis to start firing in the crowd..


10 posted on 08/22/2021 5:50:06 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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Downing street having to deny rumor Boris said we would be better off with Trump

Lolol

Whole lot of buyers remorse going on


11 posted on 08/22/2021 5:50:29 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: glimmerman70

Suicide car bomb already threatened as per daily mail


12 posted on 08/22/2021 5:51:10 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

Tony blair says biden is an imbecile


13 posted on 08/22/2021 5:52:36 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: george76

There are no good options for those who were not able to plan escape months ago. Get food and family and supplies and get away from Kabul. Find a different route if you can. The Von Trapp family did it. Some of my family did it. Government reliance can be a trap.


14 posted on 08/22/2021 5:55:37 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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Suposedly 2500 Americans have gotten out....why isn’t anybody in the media interviewing them to get 1st hand accounts of what is really going on?

I find that very odd.


15 posted on 08/22/2021 5:56:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: RummyChick

Could very well be. Occam’s Razor. Biden, even in his non-dementia days was a moron, incompetent and as Mark Levin would always refer to as “the dumbest man in the Senate”. So it is entirely possible that Biden is in charge, making or not making decisions and just effing everything up because that’s what he’s done his whole life. Sometimes the answer is just what it appears to be.


16 posted on 08/22/2021 5:57:46 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America! )
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Pish posh, that was like five days ago, man!


17 posted on 08/22/2021 6:01:22 AM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an Empire of lies.)
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ENDLESS WAR
https://outline.com/HtZnty
https://archive.is/4rUr4


18 posted on 08/22/2021 6:03:00 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: george76

He may prefer being impeached over this than election fraud ? How much competence does it take to leave the situation alone ? That is all he would have to do (or not do). Same with the catastrophe at the border.


19 posted on 08/22/2021 6:04:04 AM PDT by erlayman
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It is an error to attribute incompetence where malice is much more likely


20 posted on 08/22/2021 6:04:09 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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