Posted on 08/25/2021 1:13:56 PM PDT by RummyChick
Up to 1,500 Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan and the U.S. is still relying on the Taliban to allow safe passage to Kabul airport with just six days before the August 31 deadline, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a press conference on Wednesday.
Blinken gave an updated on the airlift operation and the bid to get all citizens and Afghan allies out amid reports the CIA has joined U.S. troops in rescue missions outside the airport perimeter.
Thousands of people are still trying to leave Afghanistan as U.S. troops start leaving and evacuation flights begin to wrap up, but are being stopped and beaten by insurgents on their way.
Among those left are 24 school children from California who visited on a summer trip and haven't been able to leave.
Blinken appeared to blame Americans still on the ground for not leaving fast enough after first being warned earlier this year to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Is this the time for wisecracks, Joe? Snarky President says ‘you’ll be the first person I call’ to NBC reporter who asked what he’ll do if US citizens and Afghan allies are still on the ground after August 31
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9926901/Biden-jokes-NBC-reporter-asked-Afghan-evacuation.html
What on earth are California students doing in Afghanistan?
The story that high-school students just took a trip to Afghanistan, like they are visiting Disney World, is nonsense. There is a lot more to this than the fake media is reporting.
Xiden did this KNOWINGLY.
gave the Taliban Afghanistan.
gave the Taliban weapons, vehicles and aircraft.
gave the Taliban Americans children and women to
rape, slave and behead.
Xiden - DNC - ENEMIES of all that was America
Who fa fook sends school children to Afghanistan???
We’ve been hearing for days and days it is WAY more than 1500. They’re trying to shirk responsibility for leaving Americans behind. The latest talking point is some Americans might want to actually STAY in Afghanistan. That is unbelievably despicable.
most
incompetent
commander-in-chief
ever
When we get the kids home, arrest the parents for endangerment.
Didn’t the State Department just say this week they are not sure how many US citizens are in Afghanistan? There was an interview in which a US government official explained that Americans were highly recommended to register at the US embassy in Kabul but not all of them did.
How can we be so sure of this number?
The young American school girls will make good Taliban wives.
Presumably they’re Afghan refugees who returned home for the summer?
No, they are there. Why do you think they are there?
this was probably some lefty school on some woke trip to do good
horrible timing. maybe the parents will think twice now about Biden
I ask the same question too. What’s next - Iran?
What parents would let them?
They are Afghani children visiting relatives in Afghanistan.
They probably would have if Biden had given them a heads-up first, before he told the Taliban.
Some of the kids may be at antifa training camps
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