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The scenes out of Afghanistan are infuriating and tragically predictable. It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that President Biden and the geniuses surrounding him have made such an almighty hash of the withdrawal from that godforsaken country. Look at everything else he has messed up. His first act in office was to dismantle hard-won Trump-era border protection measures. The inevitable illegal migrant surge at the southern border has turned into an unchecked invasion, with national security and public health risks that will ricochet through history. At this stage we can confidently say that Joe Biden has the reverse Midas...

Showing a bizarre disassociation from facts, senility, or a feminist obsession that overrides all other things, Nancy Pelosi issued an utterly ludicrous statement on Afghanistan. Its entire focus is on women and girls. There’s no mention of the thousands or tens of thousands of men who have been and will be slaughtered in cold blood. There’s also no recognition that the Taliban is a medieval Islamic sect that believes women and girls (including little girls) belong in the home cooking for and satisfying the sexual needs of their Taliban husbands – and that’s it. I’m printing the pertinent language from...

Vanity I don't know how to return to a day in Free Republic other than what I've done here. I would like to be able to see on Free Republic the tragedy in Afghanistan unfold. We are able to go back one page at a time, but not forward. The first 3 links will take you back to a place in time on Free Republics Index. Followed by infrequent links to Afghanistan posts. Free Republic Index Page Chaotic Scenes In Kabul Today Posted 8/15/2021, 6:16:13 AM https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?more=3985198 Free Republic Index Page Biden Sends 3,000 Troops, Offers Taliban Bribes, As Afghanistan...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that the Afghan situation is “manifestly not Saigon.” This has been suggested because helicopters are being used to evacuate embassy personnel. Perhaps it is more like Benghazi. In both cases, the commander-in-chief left the scene: Obama to bed and Biden to Camp David. Americans have been advised to "shelter in place” and fill out a Repatriation Assistance Request. Civilians are advised not to come to the embassy or airport. There has been no mention of the archaic notion of "women and children first." The president was confident that Afghanistan would not fall to...

The UK is talking to the Taliban via a third state to get assurances over the safety of diplomats still in Afghanistan and Afghan nations who helped allied forces; planes are said to be grounded at Kabul airport amid chaos on the tarmac; the Taliban has seized all major cities. We've been reporting live today as nations worldwide rush to bring their nationals and embassy staff home. In the past hour: Qatar said it was doing its "utmost" to evacuate diplomats in international organisations seeking to leave Afghanistan. The Dutch military said it plans to operate "multiple" flights, with one...

US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks during her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on August 6, 2021. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the third-highest ranking Republican in the House, alleged on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blocked her and other Republican members from asking top U.S. officials about the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan. “On this morning’s bipartisan conference call regarding Afghanistan with Secretaries Austin, Blinken, and Chairman Milley, Authoritarian Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blocked me and multiple Republican Members from asking questions and lied and said, ‘there were...

Unless a miracle happens Afghanistan is a lost cause. Our friends there now face slaughter and slavery because of our betrayal. Too bad. Although Afghan society is, by our standards, corrupt from top to bottom, it is their culture, not ours. In Afghanistan, we were winning militarily despite major strategic blunders. We only needed to stick it out long enough for its society to transform itself into something the world could live with. The developing disaster there is entirely of our own making. Our liberal leadership may have been to the finest schools, however they are clearly not sufficiently educated...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly called President Biden after the 2020 election in an attempt to revive their long-standing friendship by saying his attacks on the president's son Hunter Biden had done little to appease Trump voters. The New York Times reported that Graham reached out to President Biden in mid-November, while the senator was also publicly supporting former President Trump's attacks on the results of the election. The Times cited three people familiar with the conversation who said Graham told President Biden that targeting Hunter Biden hadn't appealed to many Trump voters in his home state. Last year, Graham...

Kandahar is fallen. Kabul, too. To hear again those names is to bring back a lost youth a lifetime of operations overseas. When I heard that Kandahar had fallen to the Taliban...I had a bad day. I did not think the news would hit so hard — but it did, and I thought to take a moment to give hard won advice to those who were there, as well as to reflect upon some of the reasons why the Taliban are on the cusp of victory. Think of those who servedFirst, this moment is a bad time for those who...

Frustration over the mostly feckless national Republican Party is nothing new. Those of us on the political right have few electoral options given our two-party system. In some elections, the choice is stark and easy, as when Reagan or Trump were at the top of the ticket. Other years saw names like McCain or Romney on the ticket and many of us held our noses voting Republican only because it was the better of two lousy choices. The leftist agenda moves forward regardless of who is elected, at the presidential or congressional level, the only difference being the speed of...

A man was stopped by a game-warden in Northern Algonquin Park recently with two buckets of fish leaving a lake well known for its fishing. The game warden asked the man, “Do you have a license to catch those fish?” The man replied to the game warden, “No, sir. These are my pet fish.” “Pet fish?!” the warden replied. “Yes, sir. Every night I take these here fish down to the lake and let them swim around for a while. I whistle and they jump back into their buckets, and I take em home.” “That’s a bunch of crap! Fish...

Enlivex Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ENLV) reports that the Israeli Ministry of Health has authorized the initiation of its Phase IIb clinical trial evaluating Allocetra in severe and critical COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distressed syndrome (ARDS).

Different perspective, same incident. Afghan civilians cling to a USAF C-17A at #Kabul airport trying to leave the country.

Chuck Schumer said federal law enforcement officials need to crack down on fake COVID-19 vaccination cards, which are being sold online. Schumer's announcement Sunday comes after AP previously reported how people are cheating the system and, worrying officials at colleges and universities across the country that are requiring proof students received the vaccine to attend in-person classes. A user on the encrypted messaging app Telegram offered what they described as "COVID-19 Vaccine Cards Certificates," for as much as $200 each, the report said. Schumer is demanding US Customs and Border Protection and the FBI team up with officials from the...

Mark Levin with Stephen Miller on Life, Liberty and Levin: "This is probably the most diabolical presidency and diabolical Democrat Party, probably since slavery" Rumble...

Breaking911 (@Breaking911) Tweeted: FMR. PRES. TRUMP: "What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary. It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history!" https://t.co/5CrbYiflct

At least 2 people fall to their death after holding on to a plane as it takes off from Kabul Airport Video at link

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@disclosetv NOW - Desperate Afghan civilians clung to the landing gear of a US transport plane as it took off from #Kabul airport, at least 3 plunged to their deaths. Clip...

YouTube is a private company. The First Amendment does not require it to honor First Amendment rights. However, when a gargantuan conglomerate can essentially eliminate the opinions of senators, justifying its actions under the guise of dispelling misinformation, it borders on totalitarianism. “I’m not sure when YouTube became an arm of the government, and I’m not really sure it’s good for journalism to also be an arm of the government without any repercussions or push back,” Paul said on a conference call last week. Moreover, this type of thing only seems to happen to Republicans and conservatives. For example, when...