Posted on 08/24/2021 9:22:58 AM PDT by elpadre
Joe Biden today shrugged off pleas from Boris Johnson and other allies to extend the Kabul evacuation after the Taliban warned it will not tolerate delay to the August 31 deadline for troops leaving.
Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel used a G7 meeting to urge the president to keep the operation going longer, but the entreaties appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
White House sources said Mr Biden had instead agreed with the Pentagon that there would be no change to the timeline of the mission.
The rebuttal came after the Taliban repeating blood-curdling warnings of consequences if there was an attempt to cling on, saying no-one will be permitted to leave. 'All people should be removed prior to that date,' a spokesman told a press conference in the capital. 'After that we do not allow them. We will take a different stance.'
According to Reuters, the Pentagon has told Mr Biden the risks to American forces are too high if they defy the Taliban. It means troops will have to abandon the humanitarian operation and start focusing on their own exit plan as soon as tomorrow.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned of the danger of a 'shooting war' at the airport as the deadline approaches, after the RAF extracted another 2,000 people in the past 24 hours. Berlin and Paris have also been ramping up their evacuation, but there are still thousands of desperate people waiting to be taken to safety.
Efforts have been continuing on both sides of the Atlantic to get Mr Biden to change his approach, after he faced a furious backlash for his hamfisted handling of the crisis. The US chair of the House Intelligence Committee has said the current timetable for evacuating America citizens and ... (story continues at link)
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Biteme has reverted to such a childlike state, Im guessing he also stomped his feet and held his breath..
The European govts got the US president they wanted.
They say be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
The Taliban are more concerned about flows of undocumented, unvetted Afghanis into the USA than our own DC elites.
“Tory MP Tom Tugendhat – who served as an Army officer in Afghanistan – said all the UK could do was ‘ask the Americans if they’re willing to stand with us’.
He added: ‘If they’re not then we can’t secure the perimeter and we can’t manage air traffic control, so if the Americans decide to go now I’m afraid that is it. But we can ask.’”
That means there will be limited MSM news from Afghanistan after the 31st as they will pivot to the budget deals, the economy, and perhaps a false flag (like a shooting where the FBI is somewhere in the background).
Betrayal riddles the DNA of the Democrats.
They need 3 days to get the military out, so only 4 days left to evacuate the American hostages.
The GOP got what they wanted, too.
They got rid of Trump and got the border back open again.
Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel used a G7 meeting to urge the president to keep the operation going longer, but the entreaties appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
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Well, they should look on the bright side: The bad orange man is gone and no more mean tweets to hurt their feelings.
Betrayal riddles the DNA of the Democrats.
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And Assistant Democrats.
Snaps to Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney
Those two are just the tip of the iceberg.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, Hoeven, Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, Inhofe, Scott, Scott, Romney, McConnell, Cassidy, Thune, Ernst, Boozman, Murkowsky, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Shelby, Blunt, Sasse, Toomey, Rounds, Portman, Burr, Lee, Capito, Crapo, Cramer, Barrasso, Risch, Sullivan, Moran and Collins are ALL Bush League Republicans
And that’s just the Senate, there are 145 House members that voted for Liz Cheney in Feb. to lead them (away from MAGA)
I cannot imagine the total despair and absolute fear that those left behind will be feeling as they watch the last military aircraft climbing into the air as it leaves the airport at Kabul.
This is a joke, right? Who in the Pentagon would ever utter such a profanity? The other day, there was a comment by someone in the defense intelligence community on FR who said it would take approximately thirty minutes for the US military to completely obliterate Taliban presence in Aghanistan and Pakistan.
The sooner Biden bails out, the sooner the MSM can focus on the real enemy, Trump supporters.
There is but one solution. Have troops go back in with force great enough to ravage the Taliban and push them back, but Biden does not have the guts!
Some people don’t understand that joe is taking orders from the taliban, not from the American people.
joe is beholden to the chicoms/taliban/muzzies/blm/antifa, and doesn’t have a mind of his own.
He is a traitor.
There is NO way those Americans are going to be saved. They are doomed to whatever fate the taliban decides for them, and it won’t be pretty.
joe is responsible for this.
The ultimate snub is possibly being set up here. US Forces leave, and the French, German and UK forces double down.
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