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Meanwhile from our Neighbor Up North: PM Justin Trudeau Abandons Kabul Evacuation Operation, Leaves Canadians Stranded
PJ Media ^ | 08/26/2021 | Kevin Downey Jr.

Posted on 08/26/2021 9:14:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suspended Canada’s evacuation of Afghanistan.

“Our engagement with Afghanistan is not done,” Trudeau said, suggesting Canada may work with the Taliban to get more Canadians home. He went on to call the situation “heartbreaking”.

Canada has thus far removed roughly 2,700 people, including Canadian nationals and Afghans. No one knows just how many Canadians, and their Afghan allies, remain stranded in Afghanistan.

“We would have liked to have stayed beyond the 31st deadline, but as you know this decision has been made by the Americans,” Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan stated. Canada’s evacuation plans rely on the American military forces’ ability to maintain control of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, the scene of one of today’s two suicide bombings.

Unconfirmed reports state that 40 people have been killed and 120 wounded in today’s bombings. Three of the wounded are U.S. Marines, one of whom is reported to have sustained serious injuries.

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TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; canada; dereliction; evacuation; rout; surrender; trudeau

1 posted on 08/26/2021 9:14:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s doing what he’s always done, half commit to everything.

I assure you, however, not a single Quebecer will be among the casualties.


2 posted on 08/26/2021 9:18:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: SeekAndFind

There isn’t a Leftist that cares one tiny bit about the deaths of their citizens. People who go all out to ensure their ability to Murder and Mutilate Babies in their Mothers Wombs cannot be expected to give a damn whatsoever about human suffering. To expect this is insane.


3 posted on 08/26/2021 9:22:02 PM PDT by ocrp1982 ( Bibicly)
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To: All

He and his government party have had a very bad start to the election campaign and this issue is one of several contributing factors. It no longer looks like a sure thing for him to maintain his position (the aim was to improve it from minority to majority rule in parliament — now he looks quite capable of losing entirely).


4 posted on 08/26/2021 10:13:02 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It's time we got serious about COVID-74 and COVID-92 and the Bulgarian variant and ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I miss Rob Ford.


5 posted on 08/26/2021 11:09:43 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: SeekAndFind

what’s with that? nobody wants to volunteer to let America go first. Always we gotta be last. Some friends.


6 posted on 08/27/2021 12:40:36 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

Canada was fighting Nazi Germany TWO YEARS before Germany declared war on America.


7 posted on 08/27/2021 12:45:00 AM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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To: Does so

That’s only because they were little more than British subjects, and did exactly what they were told.


8 posted on 08/27/2021 3:59:45 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Sometimes War Finds YOU!


9 posted on 08/27/2021 1:36:41 PM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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