At least one American President had an appreciation of that battle.
"“I don't want any damn Dien Bien Phu,” "
Posted on 08/25/2021 6:12:28 PM PDT by McGruff
What’s it like to get somebody past the gates at Hamid Karzai International Airport? A lot of media and people seem to think it’s like signing in your girlfriend when you lived in the barracks.
It’s not that simple.
It’s more like trying to pick up someone who doesn’t speak your language out of a crowd. At a f–king death metal concert at Madison Square Garden.
And it’s at triple capacity.
And only one door is open.
And the place is on fire.
I’m not a religious person, but the word that comes to mind is “biblical.” It’s like Hurricane Katrina meets Dien Bien Phu.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Article is well worth a read.
What was that fire where a bunch of people died?
Was it Great White?
Yes.
I immediately thought of that as well
Station fire, Rhode Island..
Yes, Great White was the band
This is what both parties cheated Trump out to get.
We do not need ONE more muslim in this country.
How many like Ilhan Nur Said Elmi do you want?
Rejected? Who rejected them? If they are vouched for by our Special Operators they should be ahead of all the Afghanis that are being let in with no known connections.
There was a fire at a Great White concert? in 2003 that killed 100 people.
There was another large fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club in northern Kentucky which killed even more, 165 dead in 1977. In that one someone ran on stage and yelled something like, "We're on fire! Get out NOW!" The audience thought it was part of the show and laughed.
Piglosy has her ice cream and six friderators to make up for her insides being a toxic waist dump.
Why are they standing in knee deep water?
From the link...
But with the main checkpoints a mess, people are improvising. There’s a gray-water canal that the refugees found, and if you can get across the canal to the walls of the airport, you don’t have to go through the Taliban.
So on the walls are Marines and other Americans and every kind of coalition force — Norwegians, Belgians, Swedes, Canadians, French. And the Afghans will yell for the nationality they worked for — “I’m looking for Canadians!” — trying to connect with their guys. And soldiers will yell back, asking them for paperwork.
The lip is about 10 to 12 feet high. If you jumped into the canal, you’d probably get hurt. And you’d be thigh-deep in s–t water. If someone hoping to use the canal has the right paperwork or our blue passport, the troops will yell across, “Come on,” and that someone will jump in the s–t water and come across. Others, who don’t have passports, might just hang out down there and beg for the foreign service members to let them up, showing a bunch of random paperwork.
At least one American President had an appreciation of that battle.
"“I don't want any damn Dien Bien Phu,” "
Good memory. I remember thinking when it happened, “it could have been me!”
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