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Blinken was vacationing in the Hamptons hours before Kabul fell
Fox News Network ^ | 8/29/2021 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 08/29/2021 4:05:42 PM PDT by McGruff

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was vacationing in the Hamptons just hours before Taliban insurgents invaded Kabul and completed their retaking of Afghanistan 20 years after their ouster by U.S.-led forces, according to a new report.

According to a detailed timeline of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul compiled by The Washington Post, the actions by U.S. officials in the days leading up to the collapse suggested "no immediate cause for alarm," with many of them "surrendering to the customary rhythms of Washington in August."

Blinken, like other U.S. officials, had to be called back from his vacation once things started rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the report said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bidenforeignpolicy; blinken; kabul; wediditjoe
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1 posted on 08/29/2021 4:05:42 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Knocking on his wooden head the Pinocchio


2 posted on 08/29/2021 4:08:44 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: McGruff

So the press was winkin’ while they watched Blinken nod?


3 posted on 08/29/2021 4:09:53 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: McGruff
At least he managed to offer President Ghani pallets of cash the day before the city fell:

Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell

4 posted on 08/29/2021 4:11:49 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: McGruff

Networking with the Clinton Crime Family?


5 posted on 08/29/2021 4:11:54 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: McGruff

The current regime are a bunch of devious, narcissistic, corrupt bastards. This is a “government?”


6 posted on 08/29/2021 4:15:42 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: McGruff

The country is in the very best of hands.


7 posted on 08/29/2021 4:16:25 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: McGruff

Question for Biden: Couldn’t you have thought ahead to refrain from letting the country fall to the Taliban until AFTER Blinken’s luxury vacation was over?

Set the deadline to the after vacation weeks.

Of course the beach mansion on the shore of Delaware was where Biden himself was headed until making a last second “circle back” when the bad military news got on the top of the news hours. They said aides told him the optics would have been bad showing Biden on the beach relaxing.

Biden White House can call this the war that ruined our vacation plans.


8 posted on 08/29/2021 4:16:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: mass55th

Good article. Thanks for sharing.


9 posted on 08/29/2021 4:20:25 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Biden’s got the vacation advantage.


10 posted on 08/29/2021 4:22:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: McGruff

0bama redux. Amateur Hour.


11 posted on 08/29/2021 4:24:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (I won't get vaxxed because it endangers Mitt Romney's life. )
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To: McGruff

Blinking was probably in the Hamptons auctioning off some crack heads latest piece of “art” to the highest globalist bidder.


12 posted on 08/29/2021 4:27:27 PM PDT by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: Fungi

The Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, Hollywood, it’s all about money and the sweet life it brings.

Sorry ‘bout your boy.


13 posted on 08/29/2021 4:32:48 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: McGruff

Has he resigned yet?


14 posted on 08/29/2021 4:35:28 PM PDT by bray (Time to resign Joe)
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To: McGruff
Blinken used to work under Susan Rice and Obama.

And he still does.


15 posted on 08/29/2021 4:36:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: McGruff

Where where Winken (VP) and Nod (Biden)?


16 posted on 08/29/2021 4:46:40 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: Fungi

Taliban Tony.


17 posted on 08/29/2021 4:51:16 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: McGruff

Great job Brownie...


18 posted on 08/29/2021 4:55:33 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Xiden - Make America Grovel Again...)
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To: McGruff

Apropos.


19 posted on 08/29/2021 5:16:36 PM PDT by Baldwin
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To: jocon307

***The country is in the very best of hands.***

My favorite song from the movie Lil Abner (1959)

Except for this little one...(modified)

“RIGHT! RIGHT! With a rah rah rah and a sis boom bah, and a hip hip hip horay!
What’s good for President BIDEN is good for the USA!”


20 posted on 08/29/2021 5:24:41 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (30 days! FB jail for mentioning a Monty Python script about tranneys, and the 1936 Olympics.)
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