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Flights suspended out of Afghanistan
Fox News | 08/16/2021 | Self

Posted on 08/16/2021 5:55:36 AM PDT by rstrahan

Per Fox News - breaking - All flights out of the Kabul airport have been suspended due to the situation there. In other words, the only way out is to try to drive or walk to the border. Pray for those who have been abandoned by our government.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan
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To: albie
Incoming 82nd is a good thing.

Yes it is. My SIL was is in the 82nd and was deployed Thursday night. He is a right-wing, conservative. He is 100% antithetical to Biden and woke military leadership. So are his buddies.

21 posted on 08/16/2021 6:10:08 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rstrahan

Head for the Russian or Chinese embassy would be my advice. remember the Canadian embassy’s role during the Iran hostage crisis?


22 posted on 08/16/2021 6:10:45 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: rstrahan

When cnn writes this, you know the situation is very bad: “Biden’s botched Afghan exit is a disaster at home and abroad long in the making”


23 posted on 08/16/2021 6:13:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: janetjanet998
CBS last night: 10,000 Americans still in Kabul(CNN 5,000) plus another 40-60,000 Afghans that will need evacuated

Maybe they should have been prepared for kabul to be over run and evacuated in the past 6 months. Oh that's right, Biden said this would not be a hurried situation because the Taliban would not do this and there would be no helicopters and planes rushing a evacuation. Maybe Millie should extricate his head from his rer and do some actual military work and quit the social experimentation.

24 posted on 08/16/2021 6:14:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“There are incoming US troops from the 82nd. They will be landing.”

Unless they are parachuting in, no one is landing. The Kabul airport is closed. Thousands of desperate people have overrun the airfield and the US military is scrambling to clear them.

We are witnessing a catastrophe in US history live. Thousands of Americans were ordered yesterday to “shelter in place.” They can’t even get to the airport. Thousands more of our allies are facing Taliban death squads who are going door to door and killing them on the spot.


25 posted on 08/16/2021 6:16:09 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Will those troops be landing at the same airport that everybody is trying to get out of? And will they leave through the same airport?

Big question - who is scheduled to be the last American out?

26 posted on 08/16/2021 6:18:41 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: rstrahan

Time to bring in our helicopters and head for the rooftops.


27 posted on 08/16/2021 6:28:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rstrahan

This is the time to increase flights.


28 posted on 08/16/2021 6:28:43 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: romanesq

Yep. Pulling them out of cars as well.


29 posted on 08/16/2021 6:32:26 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: rstrahan

12 hours ago, it was being reported that there were 10,000 Americans still in country.

WILL HIDIN’ BIDEN:

Pay blackmail?

Or let them be murdered?


30 posted on 08/16/2021 6:40:40 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Michael Leroy Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: rstrahan

There should be no praying for those left behind and here is why.

1. Most are money whores. I know this because I did it after retiring from the Army. It has nothing to do with money because it is all about the money was the saying.

2. Everybody over there knew about the chance they were taking before going. That is why they offered those big paychecks.

3. The smart ones carried their passports and about a grand in cash as a security blanket just in case. This was on top of the blood chit that is carried by all the operators.


31 posted on 08/16/2021 6:44:42 AM PDT by Slingwing
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To: Mr. K

10k civilians and 6k troops.


32 posted on 08/16/2021 6:52:43 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Thunder90

That leaves turgissan and Turkistan.


33 posted on 08/16/2021 6:54:42 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Thunder90

Since when did airspace rights mean anything to the US military. Make a corridor and push on.


34 posted on 08/16/2021 6:56:34 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Democrats- You f’d up, you trusted us!


35 posted on 08/16/2021 6:59:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cgbg

Further proof that military intelligence is an oxymoron.


36 posted on 08/16/2021 7:01:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rstrahan

Listening to WarRoom. My conclusion of situation: Trump needs to take over!!!!

We need a leader. Biden et al are running away...no one in WH taking over. Trump, pls report orders from FL


37 posted on 08/16/2021 7:15:11 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: rstrahan

Makes me suspect the Taliban may have set up SAM sites and may be inclined to take out outbound aircraft.


38 posted on 08/16/2021 7:39:27 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: CodeJockey

Or inbound too, for that matter.


39 posted on 08/16/2021 7:41:56 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: Thunder90

Seriously? WTH?


40 posted on 08/16/2021 7:43:54 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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