Posted on 08/23/2021 3:08:19 AM PDT by blueplum
The current and former military members are getting people out "one at a time."
Current and former U.S. military special operations and intelligence community operatives are using their own networks of contacts to get elite Afghan soldiers, intelligence assets and interpreters to safety as they've become increasingly disillusioned and fed up with the U.S. government-led evacuation effort in Kabul, ABC News has learned.
One informal group, dubbed "Task Force Pineapple," began as a frantic effort last weekend to get one former Afghan commando into Hamid Karzai International Airport as he was being hunted by Taliban who were texting him death threats. ...
...Other former members of the military and CIA have consolidated their own efforts with a separate group calling itself "Task Force Dunkirk," a reference to the massive evacuation of British and other Allied forces from France in 1940 under threat of the Nazi juggernaut....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Looks like Biden is using the Apollo 13 gambit. Turn one of the worst disasters in American history into one of the greatest triumphs.
Task Force Pineapple sounds like something out of McHale’s Navy.
Not possible. Even getting everyone out wouldn’t make the images good.
Loose lips sink ships
No, Biden is not doing that. “are using their own networks” They are going around the brain dead idiot.
Re-seize Baghram
Just saw on DM that one of the major reporters there had to be saved by the Brits
Agree, Bagram seems to be essential.
Bagram was essential
Too late
We cant go back and get it now.
Now we are at the mercy of the taliban
Trump would have never let this happen
You send 6000 troops there as a photo op? The outcome is not going to be good.
it was extremely stupid to abandon Baghram
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