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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi praised Joe Biden and said that he “should be commended” as the Taliban moved into Kabul. The Taliban had been taking over cities throughout Afghanistan over the past week and breached the capital early on Sunday. Biden has been hammered from all over the political spectrum for the chaos. “The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and the actions he has taken,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The Taliban must know that the world is watching its actions. We are deeply concerned about reports regarding...

How wrong this assessment was is now clear for everyone to see. A week ago, the U.S. said Afghanistan could withstand the Taliban for 90 days. Today, the (70,000-strong) Taliban is in control of the capital, the much-vaunted Afghan army has disintegrated, and tens of thousands of Afghans – whose collective force could stop the Taliban, if only it had the organization to do so – are fleeing to any place and by any means they can. Conventionally, the United States did everything right; it installed a government, equipped and trained an army with four times the Taliban’s manpower, an...

A video has emerged that appears to show U.S. troops at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul shooting into the air as they try to keep civilians off the flightline. Throngs of Afghans trying to flee the country are presently stranded at the airport, which is currently being run entirely by the U.S. military and has been closed to commercial aircraft. The airport has become an island of foreign control within the Afghan capital, which is otherwise all but entirely under de facto control of the Taliban. You can read more about the Taliban's advance into the city and the...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), referred to by former President Donald Trump as the "most quoted Republican in the history of our country by Democrats," strongly denounced both the Biden and Trump administrations for their handling of Afghanistan during her Sunday appearance on ABC's "This Week." In an exchange with co-anchor Jonathan Karl, Cheney discussed how this "didn't happen in a vacuum," when it comes to the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Cheney's focus was on criticizing the Trump administration in particular. "Look, I think absolutely President Biden bears responsibility for making this decision. But there is no question that President Trump, his...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly told President Joe Biden following the 2020 election that he only called out the president's son, Hunter, for his controversial business dealings to please supporters of former President Donald Trump. Graham had previously requested that a special counsel be named to investigate whether Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and China resulted in any crimes. The South Carolina senator had also publicly supported Trump's claims of a stolen election. And while The New York Times reported that Graham called President Biden shortly after the election to explain why he had attacked Hunter, Graham's office told...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~COL Kern W. Dunagan Info from here. Kern W. Dunagan (February 20, 1934 - December 27, 1991) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.Dunagan joined the Army from Los Angeles, California, and by May 13, 1969 was...

The chop of U.S. military helicopters whisking American diplomats to Kabul’s airport on Sunday punctuated a frantic rush by thousands of other foreigners and Afghans to flee to safety as well, as a stunningly swift Taliban takeover reached Afghanistan’s capital. U.S. reports of gunfire at the airport threatened to shut down one of the last avenues of escape in an ever-more chaotic and compressed evacuation. NATO allies that had pulled out their forces ahead of the Biden administration’s intended Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline were rushing troops back in this weekend to airlift their citizens, while the Pentagon was sending in...

China is poised to make an exclusive entry into post-U.S. Afghanistan with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source close to government officials in Afghanistan told The Daily Beast that Kabul authorities are growing more intensively engaged with China on an extension of the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)—the flagship project of BRI, which involves the construction of highways, railways and energy pipelines between Pakistan and China—to Afghanistan.

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Biden’s words flood social media over image of helicopter rescuing US embassy personnel a la Saigon President Joe Biden is facing intense criticism from media figures both on TV and online as Taliban forces begin their takeover of Kabul in Afghanistan, an outcome that the president said was “highly unlikely” just last month. As American troops began emergency evacuations of the U.S. embassy in Kabul, CNN’s Jake Tapper said the world was watching “a tragic foreign policy disaster unfold before our eyes.” “That is, of course, a sharp turn-around from six weeks ago when President Biden called it highly unlikely...

August 13, 2021 The Centre for Digestive Diseases issued today a press release titled “Ivermectin Triple Therapy Protocol for COVID-19 Released to Australian GPs for Infected Elderly and Frontline Workers.” As we previously covered, this early treatment protocol combines ivermectin with doxycycline and zinc. “Triple therapy specialist Professor Thomas Borody, famous for curing peptic ulcers using a triple antibiotic therapy saving millions of lives, today released the COVID-19 treatment protocol to Australian GPs, who can legally prescribe it to their COVID-19 positive patients. They can also prescribe it as a preventative medication. Borody says this could be the fastest and...

CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk President Biden is expected to address the nation in the next few days about the crisis in Afghanistan, an administration official says https://cnn.it/3g2QVo8 Image 4:18 PM · Aug 15, 2021

I just got off White House briefing for Congress concerning Afghanistan. Joe Biden is a FOOL! * The military equipment and arms were left on purpose for the Afghan military to supposedly defend themselves. But they have handed it all over with no resistance. * 5,000 prisoners have been released from the base. Known terrorists. * Our border is wide open and out of control. These terrorists can easily make their way to the US. * The Taliban is in full control and ISIS is there as well. * Trump defeated ISIS and Biden is to blame for their imminent...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters less than four weeks before the Taliban entered Kabul that the local military was fully capable of defending Afghanistan from the insurgent Islamic terrorist militia. In a press conference on July 21, Milley said:The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country, and we will continue to support the Afghan Security Forces where necessary in accordance with the guidance from the president and the secretary of defense... Milley has become notorious recently for his obeisance to the political left. Last June, he apologized...

Another Saigon moment: chaotic scenes at Kabul International Airport. No security. None.

Sniff 'n' The Tears - Drivers SeatBack in August of 1979 - now 42 years ago - this was one of the power pop songs that blared from the tinny speakers of my 1968 Chrysler Newport as I cruised up and down Revere Beach in search of a place to park in order to get some of Kelly's fried clams. From the now forgotten album "Fickle Heart", this song was a Top 15 smash and still gets the occasional reference in movies and commercials. So Paul Roberts, the song writer, is still getting checks in the mail. In fact, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials were stunned on Sunday by the pace of the Taliban’s nearly complete takeover of Afghanistan, as the planned withdrawal of American forces urgently became a mission to ensure a safe evacuation. The speed of the Afghan government’s collapse and the ensuing chaos posed the most serious test of Biden as commander in chief, and he was the subject of withering criticism from Republicans who said that he had failed. Biden campaigned as a seasoned expert in international relations and has spent months downplaying the prospect of an ascendant Taliban...

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’A lot of anger’ “The soldiers who have talked to me, I’ve experienced a lot of anger,” said Joseph Owens, a lawyer who served in the US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Owens says his firm, based in Columbia, Maryland, has received about a dozen calls since Austin’s announcement. For Owens, the question revolves around whether it is a lawful order to compel service members to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. And to answer that question, he says he will look into the decision-making process behind mandating that vaccine and the legal considerations that went into the decision. Any procedural missteps...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has criticized anyone failing to follow the regulations designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 telling them "Screw your freedom." SNIP He said: "There is a virus here. It kills people, and the only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time and not just to think about, 'Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom." SNIP Alt-right political activist and senior editor at the conservative publication Human Events Jack Posobiec shared a link to the actor's comments tweeting: "Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was...