Posted on 08/30/2021 6:28:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and Ambassador Ross Wilson, charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, were the final Americans to step aboard the last U.S. military C-17 cargo jet shortly before it lifted off from the Afghan capital’s sole international airport Monday.
All told about 6,000 U.S. citizens were evacuated from Afghanistan. They represent the “vast majority” of those who wanted to leave the war-torn country, Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters Monday.
“There’s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. We did not get everybody out that we wanted to,” he said. “But if we had stayed another 10 days, we wouldn’t have gotten everybody out. It’s a tough situation.”
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Kinda like the Trump plan to get citizens out first in a orderly fashion, then equipment and troops last. Not the other way around and leave all the guns, tech, vehicles, etc. behind.
Should have kept both. Use Bagram as the primary base with the multiple runways, etc. and Kabul as a backup/secondary.
They nuked the FB and instagram accounts of one of the mothers for doing exactly that. They are despicable but if you criticise the Democrat regime too strongly or too effectively you will get digitally purged by big tech scumbags.
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