Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

Do you care?

  • No

    Votes: 40 23.3%

  • Hell No

    Votes: 47 27.3%

  • Yes, we should invade and send in Troops

    Votes: 25 14.5%

  • I like Pie

    Votes: 60 34.9%
  • Total voters
    172
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#2,056
WH spox - we intentionally avoided a mass evacuation because we thought it would signal lack of faith in the government.

sure sounds like they didn't get almost everyone out but the few needed to keep the lights on
 
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NEO said:
Biden is blowing it on every front.

Your dude is a complete failure and the entire world sees it.
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The entire world knew on election night what a turd sandwich this guy is. Why else all the celebration?

And just wait until he dies or strokes out ant Cackles takes over. Talk about Manchurian Candidate....

I'm waiting for one single solitary person to step forward and say they backed her from the get go.
 
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volinbham said:
per DoD

5-10K Americans in Afghanistan

5-9K persons expected to be transported out per day through the end of the month.
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An administration official who was not authorized to speak on the record told me that there are an estimated 10,000 U.S. citizens in the country, with the vast majority in or near Kabul. Some are residents, journalists or aid workers who may not want to leave. Most are scrambling to escape. Some are dual nationals or children of Americans who may not have the proper passport or visas, but the State Department has not told them how to fix their paperwork.
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Opinion | Biden must rescue thousands of U.S. citizens trapped in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

I don't have much sympathy for the ones that don't want to leave or are just now wanting to leave. They could have have left any time before this. As far as the dual citizens and not having the right paperwork, that has probably been the case for awhile and we don't hold up the complete withdrawal just for them. I'm sure they are being worked with now and protected.

Based on my experience, I would bet the amount of personnel that were required to be there as part of the official U.S. mission is not that much. Everyone was pulled out long ago. Anecdotally, a contractor who I was deployed with left Bagram around the beginning of May and he said there was almost nobody left and the base was a legit ghost town. Anybody who has been to Bagram would know how weird that must have been. He even had MREs for the last week he was there because the DFAC closed or had extremely limited food.
 
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hog88 said:
Not a witch hunt, pure stupidity. Removing Biden would be a huge mistake.
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I don't think it will be much longer before they'll be no choice. I'm not sure how much longer they can keep the charade going. He wasn't in the best mental shape last year and he seems to be declining fast. With my mother, who suffered and died from Alzheimer's, she would plateau for a bit then decline, plateau then decline. Outside stresses, even the slightest ones would make it worse. I said last year he wouldn't make it a year. I still believe that.
 
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rjd970 said:
More context:



Opinion | Biden must rescue thousands of U.S. citizens trapped in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

I don't have much sympathy for the ones that don't want to leave or are just now wanting to leave. They could have have left any time before this. As far as the dual citizens and not having the right paperwork, that has probably been the case for awhile and we don't hold up the complete withdrawal just for them. I'm sure they are being worked with now and protected.

Based on my experience, I would bet the amount of personnel that were required to be there as part of the official U.S. mission is not that much. Everyone was pulled out long ago. Anecdotally, a contractor who I was deployed with left Bagram around the beginning of May and he said there was almost nobody left and the base was a legit ghost town. Anybody who has been to Bagram would know how weird that must have been. He even had MREs for the last week he was there because the DFAC closed or had extremely limited food.
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the press conf today suggests they didn't want to do a large evacuation partly at the request of the Afghan government and belief it would undermine faith in said government.

even the snippet you posted indicates the State Dept wasn't prepared to process people who needed help due to documentation issues.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I don't think it will be much longer before they'll be no choice. I'm not sure how much longer they can keep the charade going. He wasn't in the best metal shape last year and he seems to be declining fast. With my mother, who suffered and died from Alzheimer's, she would plateau for a bit then decline, plateau then decline. Outside stresses, even the slightest ones would make it worse. I said last year he wouldn't make it a year. I still believe that.
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Biden gorked in a hospital bed or even dead is 100 X better than Trump as POTUS.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I don't think it will be much longer before they'll be no choice. I'm not sure how much longer they can keep the charade going. He wasn't in the best metal shape last year and he seems to be declining fast. With my mother, who suffered and died from Alzheimer's, she would plateau for a bit then decline, plateau then decline. Outside stresses, even the slightest ones would make it worse. I said last year he wouldn't make it a year. I still believe that.
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He’ll stay until at least Jan 2023. They have to work on replacing Harris before they can replace Joe.
 
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Jake Sullivan makes it sound like the US has this under control and things are just fn awesome. Errything according to plan.
 
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