Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

Do you care?

  • No

    Votes: 41 23.6%

  • Hell No

    Votes: 48 27.6%

  • Yes, we should invade and send in Troops

    Votes: 25 14.4%

  • I like Pie

    Votes: 60 34.5%
  • Total voters
    174
#4,677
#4,677
85SugarVol said:
Why are y’all talking about Covid in here? Isn’t there an entire 100k post thread on it.
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Because that’s the only thing the cat turd lady can hope to deflect to and form some kind of positive narrative right now… even if it’s a stupid authoritarian narrative but hey they go with what they know.
 
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85SugarVol said:
I keep hearing Jen Psaki and others refer to evacuating “every American that wants to leave Afghanistan”.

Are we operating under the assumption that there are Americans there that DON’T want to leave Afghanistan?
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You are to assume they don't. It's not like they will ever be heard from again and have an opportunity to correct the narrative.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Because nobody pays attention to her nonsense in the actual thread on the subject.
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Glad I got a competent pediatrician for my kids who doesn't say "Hey, all of us young people, let's get infected by this new virus that we know very little about and see how it turns out."
 
#4,682
#4,682
Interesting question posed today on radio, I thought:

Who are these 10k or so Americans we have had to get out of there that somehow stayed even though they knew we were leaving for a long time? If I'm an American in Afghanistan and the US is negotiating with the Taliban to leave the country in a year, I'm out of there the next day.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Interesting question posed today on radio, I thought:

Who are these 10k or so Americans we have had to get out of there that somehow stayed even though they knew we were leaving for a long time? If I'm an American in Afghanistan and the US is negotiating with the Taliban to leave the country in a year, I'm out of there the next day.
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The WH appreciates your water carrying to push their narrative that it isn’t their fault they left anybody behind.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
The WH appreciates your water carrying to push their narrative that it isn’t their fault they left anybody behind.
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Its not a narrative or carrying water. Legit quesiton: who in their right mind would have stayed there leading up to this? Much less 10k such persons.
 
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evillawyer said:
Glad I got a competent pediatrician for my kids who doesn't say "Hey, all of us young people, let's get infected by this new virus that we know very little about and see how it turns out."
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BTW I didn’t realize COVID was determined to be a risk for jumping to felines yet?
 
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#4,691
lawgator1 said:
Its not a narrative or carrying water. Legit quesiton: who in their right mind would have stayed there leading up to this? Much less 10k such persons.
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Doctors, missionaries, various volunteer communities. It isn’t a new question. And all of those organized groups would likely have checked in with state regularly as protocol or had somebody supporting them handle the coordination.

Yes it’s water carrying.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Interesting question posed today on radio, I thought:

Who are these 10k or so Americans we have had to get out of there that somehow stayed even though they knew we were leaving for a long time? If I'm an American in Afghanistan and the US is negotiating with the Taliban to leave the country in a year, I'm out of there the next day.
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I would have left the same day I heard.

Regardless of why they are there at this point - what are we going to do about them?
 
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lawgator1 said:
Interesting question posed today on radio, I thought:

Who are these 10k or so Americans we have had to get out of there that somehow stayed even though they knew we were leaving for a long time? If I'm an American in Afghanistan and the US is negotiating with the Taliban to leave the country in a year, I'm out of there the next day.
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It sounds like many of them are civilians in support roles and helping with humanitarian efforts. The Taliban reclaimed areas much faster than Biden expected and these people have little to no way to contact the outside world. This is a huge cluster fudge.
 
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85SugarVol said:
I would have left the same day I heard.

Regardless of why they are there at this point - what are we going to do about them?
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I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about it, of course we should. Just odd to me that people there and who knew what was going on would stick around for the withdrawal. I'd have thought it pretty clear to them in country that they needed to get the heck out of dodge.
 
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#4,695
lawgator1 said:
Interesting question posed today on radio, I thought:

Who are these 10k or so Americans we have had to get out of there that somehow stayed even though they knew we were leaving for a long time? If I'm an American in Afghanistan and the US is negotiating with the Taliban to leave the country in a year, I'm out of there the next day.
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IDK, maybe if you're told in April that we're pulling out by Aug 31 you have time. Might have planned on leaving mid July then found out we abandoned the airbase and airport July 2nd.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Its not a narrative or carrying water. Legit quesiton: who in their right mind would have stayed there leading up to this? Much less 10k such persons.
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depends on why they are there and the guidance they received about both evacuation and expected conditions post 8/31 - remember until 2 weeks ago the official line was there is no rush and the Afghan government is well positioned to be in charge.

and/or you live outside of Kabul and were told when you're ready to leave it won't be a problem to get to Kabul.
 
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Question, if the Taliban are in power, and a Taliban member commits an act of terror anywhere in the world, would that be a act of war and give that nation and its allies the invitation to invade and capture Afghanistan?
Question 2: if we left 600,000 guns and 75,000 vehicles, how many do we have left?
 
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