Posted on 08/29/2021 8:27:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday to double down on Biden’s ‘knock on wood’ strategy in Afghanistan. Blinken said the U.S. State Department will be “looking to” the Taliban to guarantee safe passage out of the Islamic terrorist state.
“You may have seen that just yesterday, a very senior Taliban official went on television and radio across the country and repeatedly assured people in Afghanistan that they would have the freedom to travel after August 31,” Blinken said.
“He even specifically said, those that work for the Americans and those that want to leave for whatever reason will have that freedom,” he continued.
“Now, of course, we don’t take the Taliban at their word,” he added. “We take them by their deed. And that is what we are going to be looking to.”
“We have more than a hundred countries, 114 countries, who signed onto a statement we initiated making clear the international community expects the Taliban to make good on a commitment to let people continue to leave the country, after August 31,” Blinken went on.
“That freedom of travel is essential to the international community’s expectations to the Taliban going forward,” he said.
The temporary halting of flights comes amid a new State Department warning for Americans to stay away from Kabul airport, as a new terror attack is impending.
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“...Looking To’ The Taliban to Guarantee Americans Safe Passage....”
Really”
We outsource safety of our people to a group that WE armed and with whom we ageeed to a front loaded agreement with????
What’s next? “We’ll be looking each city’s community of pedophiles to Uber your children to and from grammar school...”
All of the foxes have promised that the chickens will be given safe passage from the henhouse.
Absolutely pathetic to believe that, extremely damaging to our (former) image as a strong nation for him to sit behind a camera and SAY that out loud!
Hanlon’s razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Well yeah. They’re really not all that bad an outfit once you get to know them, and once you get past all the murdering and stuff.
Maybe the Biden bunglers are pushing extra hard to satay away from the airport because they don’t want that last photograph of people standing there watching their last chance to get out disappear.
You know, no more ugly PR for Joe.
Biden is pure evil, but, we have to be objective.
In Feb 2020, Did TRUMP not say that that he (TRUMP) was looking forward to meeting with TALIBAN leaders, and, they (Taliban Leaders) have promised to kill terrorists?
Brilliant! We should have looked to Hirohito to guarantee Americans safe passage from Pearl Harbor!
compare Antony Blinken to Mike Pompeo and tell me which make you feel more safe?
I wouldn’t trust Blinken to be a local crossing guard.
Might as well turn pre-natal care over to Planned Parenthood.
Assuming the bearded savages plan to do what they have said, and guarantee Americans safe passage, they WILL demand something in return. Like the US taking a million or so fertile young islamists. Or biden sending them 10 billion in cash.
Blinken says the Taliban promised that every American will be repatriated from Afghanistan using two secret routes in two separate transfers.
Hello newbie. This is all on Biden. Trump made plenty of mistakes, but Biden was happy to stop all Trump policies, then blames him for this? I’m just trying to be objective.
Once fake President Biden reneged on the May 1st deal, the Taliban went for broke.
Pure insanity
We are being led by a gaggle of forking idiots
The DU noobs are easy to spot aren’t they?
Innocently trusting the Taliban.
Imagine Putin and Xi making handshake agreements on disarmament with Blinken and Biden.
“Throw in the Brooklyn Bridge and it’s a deal. I’m no fool”—Blinken.
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