Posted on 08/24/2021 12:55:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
In Afghanistan, the Taliban are still allowing foreign nationals to leave via the Kabul international airport, but on Tuesday, the militant group decided to stop letting Afghans board American planes to leave as well.
"We are asking the American please change your policy and don't encourage Afghans to leave," said Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid. "They can take all the people that belong to them," he said, referring to Americans. But, the Taliban have decided they need Afghan nationals to stay and help rebuild the country.
Thousands of Afghans continue to flock to the Kabul airport in an attempt to flee the newly Taliban-controlled nation. Many Afghans, especially those with any ties to western allied forces, will be in significant danger should they remain in Afghanistan.
The news that the Taliban will be barring even more Afghans from attempting to leave the country breaks alongside President Biden's decision to move forward with the August 31st withdrawal deadline for U.S. troops. The president, who met with G-7 leaders this morning to discuss the strategic options in front of him, has been under pressure to extend the withdrawal, as thousands of Americans are still stranded in Afghanistan and European nations have said that their evacuation missions will not be possible if the American military does retain control of the airport.
Biden is set to address the public later today.
This is going well.
Don’t need all those commercial airliners after all.
Humilating, amd dishonorable.
We do not need ANY more muslims, thank you Taliban.
Where is Biden?
Shoot your way to the airport
Force Biden to resign
He's calling for a lid ... of his pudding cup to be removed.
Face it. Everyone at that airport including American troops are at the mercy and whim of the Taliban jihadists. Major concern is not so much that more Afghans reach the airport but the ability to safely withdraw the 6,000 American troops that are now there.Scenes from two old movies keep coming to mind. “Back to Bataan” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. The first depicts the horror of the untenable position of trapped American troops and their fate. The second depicts the massacre of British soldiers and civilians in India after a truce and a safe passage pact was signed.
“Don’t need all those commercial airliners after all”
Never did need em
Because the Taliban has already stuffed the refugee ranks with sleeper agents bound for the United States.
Wont this make ot harder for Taliban to get their people into this country and evetually in Congress?
Well you’ll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
‘Til you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake
—The Dead Kennedys
Thanks Joe, way to show the world we have our allies’ backs.
“We get our people out by selling out our allies to whom we made promises”
Even if that’s accurate I’ll be shocked if all Americans get out.
I suspect they wont provide a hard number of Americans still in country because they don’t want to be pinned down on verifying they got em all
Yeah. Optics. Like the cruise ship hospital in NYC harbor.
This makes sense. Taliban says you can have your people but not ours
Then they can execute
“ This is going well.”
Yeh, someone in the Taliban leadership woke up and said, “boss I’ve been thinking, if we let all these skilled and knowledgeable people leave who’s going to keep the lights on?” Make the trains run metaphorically speaking, duh 🙄….
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