In July, Biden said Kabul would never fall. Four days ago Biden said it would take more than 90 days for Taliban to reach Kabul, if at all. Today, Biden sends 1,000 more additional troops to Kabul as it is expected to fall within 72 hrs. That is correct. By Monday the Taliban could control all of Afghanistan.
The AP is reporting that emergency evacuations have sped up the timeline to avoid the most embarrassing optics for the Biden administration. An additional 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne are en-route to support the previously announced 3,000 U.S. troops handling the evacuation. That is a total of 4,000 new military troops sent to Kabul to support the previous 1,000. Keep in mind the original Afghan withdrawal was 2,500 troops in total.
(VIA AP) – The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban offensive is now approaching the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, after the insurgents captured most of the north, west and south of the country, just weeks ahead of the final pullout of all U.S. and NATO troops: “WASHINGTON — A defense official says President Joe Biden has authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan.
That raises to roughly 5,000 the number of U.S. troops to ensure what Biden calls an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel. U.S. troops will also help evacuate Afghans who worked with the military during the nearly two-decade war.
The Pentagon said earlier that 3,000 troops are being sent to Kabul to join the nearly 1,000 already there. Biden’s statement on Saturday didn’t explain the breakdown of the 5,000 troops he said had been deployed.
But a defense official tells The Associated Press that the president has approved Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recommendation that the lead battalion of the 82nd Airborne Brigade Combat Team assist in the State Department’s drawdown.
The situation in Afghanistan has worsened in recent days with the Afghan government losing control of many parts of the country. (read more)
From CNN the following wagon-circling:
(VIA CNN) The US Embassy in Kabul is instructing personnel to destroy sensitive materials as well as items “which could be misused in propaganda efforts,” according to a management notice sent Friday to embassy staff, seen by CNN and described by another source familiar. […] A diplomatic source told CNN that one intelligence assessment indicated that Kabul could be isolated by the Taliban within the week, possibly within the next 72 hours. (read more)
Perhaps U.S. military leadership emphasis has been on the wrong syllable….
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Listen up, our CTH community has family there and en-route; we do not think this is funny. But the sheer scale of military ineptitude is laughable in the extreme. The Pentagon has known for two years that we were withdrawing from Afghanistan. President Trump instructed them to plan and execute the withdrawal. They did nothing…
Instead of doing what the Commander-In-Chief instructed, the Pentagon supported Lt. Col Alexander Vindman (Trump impeachment), Navy Secretary Richard Spencer (Trump extortion) and Joint Chief’s woke Chairman Mark Milley (Trump attacker). So, at the same time we pray for the safety of our family to execute the mission at hand, we spit toward those flag officers who are insufferably political.
Biden will attempt to blame Trump, that won’t work. Eventually the White House will blame the military – that’s partially deserved. But ultimately the White House should have reviewed the plans -to verify they were actually in place- before doing the currently big stupid.
We all want to see our troops out of Afghanistan, but it doesn’t take a military strategist to see that we are going to have to deal with the multi-billions of heavy weapons we have just handed a bunch of terrorists. Good grief, we even left drones there. Everything about this is FUBAR.
The Pentagon has been rogue, because the same political attitude that exists within the Intelligence Branch writ large exists in the political military. The political Pentagon thinks they are above and beyond civilian oversight… and the political Senate has allowed this to happen.
Why the Senate?
Because the Senate appropriated hundreds of billions to federal defense contractors; private companies. Those private corporations then turn around and (1) hire the family members of the Senators in office; and (2) give money to the campaign coffers of the Senators who funded them.
In the big picture, Afghanistan was nothing more than another big circle-jerk of taxpayer money laundered to corporations and themselves.
Our entire system of government is one long collapsing mess.
The U.S. government gives billions of taxpayer dollars and weapons to terrorists, then the same federal government turns around and labels Americans as terrorists because we don’t like the U.S. government response.
They suck.
The leader of the free world is senile and being hidden in his basement.
Slight correction: The leader of the free world is coming down off the high from his 60 birthday bash on Martha’s Vineyard with a devilish look in his eye.
Agree. And he is now known at the creator of the Obama varient!
This week 74 CCP Flu posi tests on MV. Might that be the Obozo sophisticated deviant?
None at Sturgis.
Valeria Jarrett’s birthday is on Nov. 14th.
One wonders how much longer “The Free World” will remain free? Its freedom has already been diminished over the past year.
And his wife “stepped on something” in Hawaii … and is unable to rush across the stage to give dementia Joe the hook.
Why would the government not tell us what she stepped on? Something bad enough to cripple her and need surgical removal?
Strange times. Strange times indeed.
Notice they didn’t identify the “object”, that’s “telling” in and of itself (shame is wasn’t something Japanese leftover from the Pearl Harbor attack).
And to be clear “stepped on ‘something'” is code for “syringe”, Hawaii’s beaches are literally littered with them. At night bums/dopers infest and camp along the shoreline of every island, where tourists spend the day sunning, the dope addicts dispose of their biohazards everywhere and I mean why not the state gives them handfuls of new hypodermics each day.
Where exactly is this *free world* you speak of??
We have no military leaders. We have professional ass kissers who are unelected politicians masquerading as military personnel.
I wonder how many Afghan terrorists JoBama is going to bring to the US.
As many as possible. To happily join those already here. Their skills acquired from our miltary may prove useful all too soon.
Not to mention, the joebama admin will proclaim unequivocally that the US has to import refugees fleeing the taliban. If I didn’t know it wasnt a real disease, I would swear dems have political munchausen. Create a problem, deny/redirect blame and then announce they got a plan to solve it.
It’s the damdist thing!!!
“Political Munchausen” Perfect!
So says a man who belongs in a mental institution. with others spending their time looking in closets and under beds for “white supremacists”.
Good point. When you’re in a hurry there’s no time to differentiate between the good, the bad and the ugly.
I wish Biden would right about now send this guy and his helpers to Kabul.
Elite troops trained in CTR and LGBTQXYZ tactics are being deployed to save the day.
I feel better already. Fear not, Woke Milley is in charge!
For the sake of simplicity, I now call the LBB ……. clan the Alphabet Group.
Woker Austin is advising the hologram. What could go wrong?
This is reminiscent of ISIS overrunning the Iraqis with a boatload of pick-up trucks. Nobody bothered to pick up the phone to find out where those trucks came from. Then ISIS got all that cool equipment from the Iraqis.
This is the exact same thing. We give the Afghanis cool equipment only to have it donated to our enemies. Not Obama’s enemies, mind you.
This whole thing was planned.
obama doctrine. Equip the enemy and make America look weak. Vietnam!
This may sound harsh, but I really don’t care about afghanistan. The generals have made a fortune from this never-ending war that has taken the lives of Americans. Way past time to begin focusing on putting America back together again.
Well, you may not care about Afganistan, but the Taliban cares about our soldiers who are headed into pure evil at this very moment. They need our prayers.
Our soldiers need to return home – not one more drop of blood for Afganistan.
In part I agree. The bigger picture is why obama/bidan is doing this. ISIS 2.0 comes to mind. obama is livid his army was destroyed so now he is retooling the taliban aka ISI Pakistani insurgents.
obama and Pakistan go waaaay back. 9-11 redo?
way way back.
“Department of Defense Secretary John Kirby told the media on Friday that as the situation in Afghanistan continues to rapidly deteriorate, he could not speculate on what the Taliban’s intentions were as they surrounded the nation’s capital, Kabul.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-on-taliban-trying-to-isolate-kabul-cant-speak-for-what-their-intentions-are
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Admiral John (as in toilet) Scurvy should be serving on the USS Harvey Milk.
The Taliban is no doubt being funded by the Chinese and probably the Russians and Iranians too. They’re savoring this moment of seeing a “woke” America fleeing Afghanistan in a panic. I doubt they’ll try to engage our troops in battle, but this situation is so fluid and dangerous that anything can happen in the next 48 hours. Grandpa Joe is “resting” in Delaware as all hell breaks loose over there.
This was an arms gift to the Taliban. They had 2 years to dispose of our hardware and did nothing.
Old Joe isn’t the one.
Only Obama surrenders like this.
Well, Mr. Kirby, it looks like the Taliban is planning a flash mob. Chatter suggests that they’ve choreographed Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. If your intelligence services weren’t busy tracking Russian election hackers and spying on the maskless un-jabbed you might be better informed.
“could not speculate on what the Taliban’s intention were….”…..Well let’s start with the ideology regarding the ‘great satan’ and the ‘little satan’…
Kirby “could not speculate,” thereby proving that he is incapable of running a lemonade stand let alone a modern army.
Our “leaders” are shiite, but I pray that this is not another Blackhawk Down.
I’m kinda hoping for another Benghazi minus the deaths of service members, Biden can always sell videos of his appointees being rectally violated to PornHub in order to fund his massive infrastructure deal
Thanks Sundance, for remembering that our TROOPS are in the air right now, flying into an uncertain future. May GOD protect them all. One thing those of us that have been there know, that first step onto the plane is where the rubber meets the road. I intend to keep them all in my prayers. And I hope all you treehouse people do too! GOD , please watch over our Troops! However this ends, I trust You!
Beautifully said. Prayers and prayers and prayers.
Thank You Ma’am
As mentioned in the previous page, we abandoned Bagram base in the middle of the night. There is no place for us to land except Kabul Airport and that can be under attack at any moment now. I fear there is no real plan.
This is where massive bombing should come into play. But I doubt it will.
Over there… over there… say a prayer.. They no longer write songs about you guys/gals, but you are in our prayers and we think of you always.
Amen, all that matters is the mission of getting all our fellow citizens safely home at this point.
My heart aches. This is a travesty in every possible way. God bless our troops, and save our world.
Yup… grand/dtrs young soldier boy on his way, or already there.. Our love and prayers go with all of them!
One of my life’s Greatest Honors was to be a Proud Parent of a SOLDIER. Thank You
“A diplomatic source told CNN that one intelligence assessment indicated that Kabul could be isolated by the Taliban within the week, possibly within the next 72 hours, but stressed that does not mean the militant group would enter the capital.”
It took only one week for the Japanese Imperial Navy to defeat 50,000 British troops in Singapore and sink two prized battleships.
The defeat was so unexpected and so complete, it effectively signaled the end of the British Empire.
I suspect the Biden administration is doing its utmost to lose to the Taliban in less than 72 hours. This will enable his Secretary of Defense to announce that America is willing to pay substantial war reparations to the mujahidin in Afghanistan and Iran.
Churchill can be criticized for his bad judgment but no one can deny his love of country. Can the same be said of Biden?
Biden hates this country he said his policies were going to be America last. And everything he has done to our country in the lat 7 months reflects that.
They are already blaming President Trump because he started the draw down but it is not President Trump’s fault that career bureaucrats defied him and did not follow his orders. Traitors every last one one of them. All this blood and loss of treasure and life is on The Biden Administration period.
President Trump would not have bungled leaving because he is smart, smarter then they know.
His country is Chy-Na now.
Oath????? Like cops and docs? Those days are gone.
Hmm, I just looked at a map. China borders Afghan (the little finger to the right in the map above, it looks to be a river valley).
So, China is connected to Afghan who’s connected to Iran (Arabian sea) who’s connected to Turkey (Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea).
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/china-publicly-supports-taliban-calls-them-important-to-afghan-peace/
One Belt, One Road.
You beat me to that one, Mr. Piddles…. Exactly right.
Meanwhile, while 1000 troops are headed overseas, our own country is falling apart at the seams due to the crisis at our southern border . Return our soldiers and defend America’s border.
Be careful what you ask for. Who is next in line? Yes, Kamala.
All of that military equipment left behind is so that the Taliban can use it against Israel. It’s our way of arming the Taliban. Plus it gives the military contractors more money to replace it. Some one should have to give an inventory of all the military equipment left to the Taliban, right down to the damn number of rolls of toilet paper. And how much I as a tax payer was fleeced to pay for all that inventory. That inventory could have been given to the Texas Rangers to use on the border since the federal guberment has abandoned securing the southern border.
Extraordinary scenes of #Afghanistan’s military fleeing to #Iran with advanced equipment, likely supplied by US. Iran’s defense industries will want to get their hands on that equipment
Welcome to Biden’s version of “Dien Bien Phu”. After our Navy’s surrender to and kneeling before Iranians under Obammmy (which was good practice for today’s Woke policies) this is going to be a debacle albeit one we will NEVER see as the Fake News will institute a “blackout” efffectively blocking all coverage.
In the world of the Marxist mentality crisis and confusion is the MO. I see this is just one more example of the efforts of this regime to further destroy the stability of this Constitutional Republic. We all need to storm the heavens in prayer for all the Patriots who enter the battlefield where the geography presents great danger no matter one be in the sky or on foot. My hands are in prayer for all those brave Americans!
Joining you in prayer.
Now would be a good time to round up BLM and Aunt Teefa, tell them they’re going on a paid for rioting and looting trip and drop them off in Kabul.
Brilliant idea! Should that be Miss Aunt Teefa?
❤️
Let Afghanistan become China’s problem. ?
Clearly, at the moment, he has been upholding what he was installed to do, I am thinking.
Well. You can blame that POS Pence for this debacle. In fact, you can blame that POS for everything that has happened to destroy America since JAN6.
Dem Senator Mark Warner.
Evil
Abandoned US 155 howitzers will make short work of Kabul…. 16-20 mile range…
Just stand off and begin the demolition…
All I can do is pray for this country. I am very disheartened and fear for the future
You should be heartened, this is good practice like our sailors kneeling before Iranians maybe our troops will abandon their stateside equipment so the so-called “domestic terrorists) can use all that hardware in the “ongoing ‘insurrection'”(sarc) the Democrats and Fake News keep talking about.
^
This is of course sarcasm.
Cabbage head Biden is a fool.
I am disgusted at all levels of leadership in this pretend administration.
God bless the 82nd. God bless our troops. May they all return home in one piece.
And God bless the 3K jarheads sent ahead of them.
And they’re damn proud of it, too! Madness and evil have taken hold with no end in sight.
There’s your sign.
“The Taliban are now in possession of more Blackhawk helicopters than 166 other nations around the globe.”
Obama must be beaming with pride.
Unbelievable range of emotions being processed on this obscenity.
My husband is a Vietnam combat vet.
I was a college student then, and vividly remember the fall of Saigon.
We all said Never Again!
Yet, here we are.
Our “leadership,” our government, our obscenely wealthy, care as much about the rest of us as they do about the unborn.
Well said. I remember too. Our soldiers should return home and not risk dying for Afganistan.
Oh how the media love drama. Vietnam 2.0 When the generals be prosecuted for this debacle?
Another Arab spring 2.0
If you are labeled as domestic terrorists,then all bets are off.Time to sharpen the pitchforks,gather the lit torches and the hemp rope and formulate a plan to rid yourselves of these”Traitors”You will NEVER defeat them at the ballot box(they own them)
“By Monday the Taliban could control all of Afghanistan.”
Antifa and BLM are jealous. They never controlled more than a dozen US Cites.
Well, they had CHAZistan for a little while. That was fun in a kinda sleepover blankie fort sorta way.
The Big Stupid.
Last time I saw Millie he was in uniform…
Run Away Better is working like a champ!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/documents/flynn_michael_ll_11102015.pdf?v=26
No wonder they had it in for Flynn
Bidan, aka obama and vallarie jarret, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Afganistan, Pakistan will consolidate for a united front against Israel. China working swth them. Bidan …. obama along with china are working together. Obama hate Israel. The removal of Bibi was part of that plan. The new admin there has colalition with the arabs.
Was obama a china plant?
Psalms 84.
Iran. But close enough.
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1426682421035085824
Heretofore the worst US Military debacle since Vietnam was 0bama’s precipitous withdrawal from Iraq against military advice, but I think this could very well surpass that. Either the “progressive” fruitcakes who are running this regime didn’t consult with the military on this bug-out or the military forgot the basics as well.
Gee, if I didn’t know any better (and I don’t) 0bama & Valerie Jarrett are still calling the shots and doing all they can to advance the cause for their Islamic Supremacist buddies.
Where is the outrage from congress. Why arent they demanding briefings etc.? IT it was POTUS they would be screaming from the rooftop how dare he…We want updates and briefing this minute..
Also where is Joe, Kamala, Sec of DOD or General Milley shouldn;t someone in charge be giving us
updates?
Congress hit the mute button a long time ago. It’s one more massive collapse that reminds us we are truly on our own as America is in freefall.
Joe most likely couldn’t even locate Afganistan on a map. I doubt he has a clue about this situation.
“Where is the outrage from congress.”
I don’t believe there is any.
“Why aren’t they demanding briefings etc.?”
They would rather not understand or connect the dots. It makes it trickier to act like they don’t know things.
“Where is Joe,….”
I think he’s in Delaware. On vacation.
“Where is…Kamala”?
Probably overseeing the laying of the kitchen tile in the great remodeling event.
“Where is….General Milley….”
Having his fingernails done.
“Shouldn;t (sic) someone in charge be giving us updates?”
You’re thinking of another time, another place, different people. The gang that is running this country into the ground do not have dependable sources about what is really happening. Even if they did have such sources, they wouldn’t understand it. or if they did understand it, wouldn’t want you to know about it. They do not want to provide real time information because it would not be good for their public image.
By the way–who do you think is “in charge”? If you can think honestly about the answer to that question, the rest of your questions will pretty much answer themselves.
Please stop believing that anything is as it ought to be any more. Stop trying to figure it out. It is as bad (and worse) than you think.
Yes. And very impressed that you could organize and articulate that through what I can only imagine is seething rage. You really nailed it.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1426654440342396929
The PLA Chu Hoi’s working at the Pentagon are the most incompetant, corrupt, devious, evil rotten, pieces of shit ever fielded by the officer corps. They lied to President Trump before that they lied to Obamaumau,and before that to Little Georgie. Theres a special place in hell waiting for them.
Praying for our military. And thinking about all of those who lost their lives in this shithole country as well as those who came home maimed and wounded. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for them to see this unfolding. All that blood and treasure, for what??????
With current focus on military ineptness, let’s not forget the the world class spy agencies: CIA and NSA. Too busy spying on American citizens I guess. Any word from William Burns? Paul Nakasone?
Obama: “And you get a tank! And you get a tank! And you…”
Per Axios: Biden already blaming Trump.
What a sh**show!
That won’t fly. He’s the one that left all the Military arms, humvees, equipment, etc.. and abandon Bagram Air base before making sure our people were out. He never even spoke to the regional leaders. He did an unconditional pull out and broke Trump’s negotiated deal. This is totally on him.
Military leaders a whole lot better than ours.
If you want the troop out….then leave them out. Our Country should not spend another dime on that country. If Kabul falls….so be it., others that stayed …..that’s on them…..what will the loss count be …..ten percent? That would be 100 Marines….that’s not acceptable.