The term “indulgency fee” is so much more appealing than “extortion“, just ask U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens; oh,…wait. I digress.
It is being reported that CIA Director William Burns flew to Afghanistan to negotiate with Taliban leadership yesterday. Earlier today, Joe Biden tells the G7 nations that he is sticking to the August 31st withdrawal deadline imposed by the Taliban who are in control of almost all regions of the country including the capital city of Kabul.
For future reference, remember this CIA meeting with Taliban leadership in case the administration ever tries to say we do not negotiate with terrorists. The Biden administration doesn’t have a choice. The Taliban circle the airport in Kabul. The Taliban have U.S. made advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) that we left with the Afghan army before their defeat. As a consequence, the Taliban could easily begin shooting down any airplane attempting to take-off or land from the airport…
Hence… CIA Director Burns is almost certainly negotiating payment terms with the Taliban for safe passage. We can only imagine how much money the Biden administration is paying the Taliban leadership to permit ongoing operations at the Kabul airport. Think about how much Biden would pay to avoid the optics of a U.S. airplane carrying hundreds of Americans being blown out of the sky on CNN and BBC news. That is how much we are paying.
Biden is telling everyone at the G7 he is sticking to the August 31st deadline date. Biden addressed the leaders on the call for about seven minutes. The NATO allies are worried they will not be able to get their people out. However, undoubtedly the extraction of Americans and allies AFTER August 31st is part of the agreement between the CIA (on behalf of Biden) and Taliban leaders.
The Taliban are not stupid, they have all the leverage in this dynamic. The Taliban know this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain massive ransom payments without the international media visibility of physically holding hostages. They also know the desperation of the Biden administration to avoid any painful optics.
Earlier today, the Taliban announced they will not permit Afghan nationals to travel to the airport in Kabul. The Taliban are not going to permit U.S. embassy staff who are Afghan nationals to leave.
BBC is reporting that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Majahid said: “Afghans should not go to the airport or try to leave the country.” At the press briefing, Zabihullah Mujahid also said, “Women should stay at home for now, for their safety.” The Taliban spokesman added it would be a “violation” of the agreement to allow evacuations of foreign nationals beyond the 31st of August.
This is the problem with, and motive for, the Biden administration refusing to quantify the number of Americans and SIV’s who remain in Afghanistan. As long as the American public do not know how many are there, the administration can use any arbitrary number to claim they have all been removed regardless of their actual disposition.
If you don’t think a Democrat administration is willing to sacrifice a few thousand pesky Americans to save themselves the political issues of their abandonment; and if you think the Democrats are genuinely worried about the disposition of Afghan nationals that will likely be killed silently by Taliban enforcers…. please, remind yourself of Benghazi.
If the OBiden administration pays ONE CENT to guarantee safe passage of one America citizen (aka release of an American HOSTAGE), then NO American citizen is safe outside our borders.
Probably, we will not even be safe WITHIN our borders……………
Next logical step. Travel passports because we are looking for terrorist that snuck in from ISIS-K. The new cute narrative shaper.
One eye traitor says it.
Sec of Def says it
Isis k Isis Isis k… The new abracadabra.
Seriously? Even this late in the disaster they created, the Demented Fraud’s handlers are still looking for big cash kickbacks from payments to America’s enemies
It was at the beginning, possibly even on the 15th, when I presented the “what if they planned this Afghan event?” theory. I hadn’t read that idea anywhere at that point. It resonated with me as truth. I also new our citizens would be left behind. B*don et al know how many US citizens are there. All contractors are on their own. A rescue of them was never part of the plan. They knew it and did what ? Ran for the hills?
Human life is meant to be collateral damage for the godless Ds. Life means nothing to them.
Humiliation will continue ad nauseam in Afghan and will continue in USA when Taliban arrives en masse.
In the meantime, vax, vax, vax or you will not be allowed to do anything is their mantra.
Extreme federalism. MAGA in local, state elections. If you love your state, make it red, red, red. We will have to pick a red state in the future to live. Civil war; divided states, something of this nature is coming.
Stay out of crowds.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-accidentally-evacuates-taliban-member-who-admitted-being-armed-checkpoint
The USA intentionally bringing them in
The Americans need to band together and fight their way to freedom as Xenophon and the 10,000 Greeks did.
Effing unbelievably disgusting. How far we have fallen in a few months.
4 years of this and there won’t be anything left of this country to salvage.
Less than 4 years. All planned. Trying to follow these treasonous acts & actors on so many levels, foreign & domestic, is like trying to heard thousands of roaches into a roach motel. Step on them, crunch, push them with sticks, stomp feet, scream & they disproportionately increase to the number crushed
Obviously, we need better methods to terminate these roaches.
Once we get our people out of Afghanistan, we should bomb the bijabbers out of those Taliban shitheads.
W. Bush had his chance to do so and choked. War on the cheap, war by remote control (i.e. drones), war with too many restrictions on our side preventing a real victory.
And so…here we are!
Deja vu, Vietnam!
Certainly that equipment we left should be blown to smithereens. And if the Taliban complain, tell them our other demands.
I think we all know that they left that equipment behind for a reason.Just WHAT would the taliban want with missiles??????
Yes…they can die!
In the waning days of the Roman Empire, the government found itself hiring mercenaries from among the very barbarians whom they were trying to keep away! In one case, a Gothic cavalry, which had massacred a Roman army and killed an emperor, was almost immediately “hired” to join the Roman cavalry.
Thousands of pounds of gold were paid to assorted barbarians to keep them away, the Huns among them: it worked in the short term, but eventually no: the gold became the barbarians’ cocaine and they decided to stop dealing and just grab their gold directly.
The successor Byzantine monarchy would continue the technique with mixed results: they often would send a large amount of (what we would call) “foreign aid” along with a certificate “allowing” the barbarians to rule over e.g. northern Italy.
One can almost expect The Manchurian Marionette to do the same: declare the Taliban a new “ally” in Afghanistan, send them “foreign aid,” and proclaim that the Pax Americana is just ducky! Nothing to see here…move along!
Trop vrai!
I wish it were not true, but I see no evidence that this illegitimate regime has any awareness of anything beyond what they see in mirrors, where they are enchanted by what they see!
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the vainest of them all?
If they kill us…we will come.
“We can only imagine how much money the Biden administration is paying the Taliban leadership to permit ongoing operations at the Kabul airport. ”
Yet President Trump getting money from Congress for the border wall was like getting blood from a rock.
Why in the world would we have supplied the Afghan army with surface to air missiles?
Do the Talib have flying camels?