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.
Read that there’s no power in Kabul.
And where are we going to see any update live or even not live? The MSM won’t report on it, not wanting to make Biden and his military “leaders” look bad. Fox has their head up their asses…what a complete cluster F that is horrible for our honorable troops. All Biden military heads should be fired immediately!!!
And if this goes south, the entire admistration should pay dearly. Horrible.
Well , haven’t heard much regarding the FUBAR situation from the MIC politicos. I reckon they see this as an opportunity as opposed to a problem.
“Biden sends 1,000 more additional troops to Kabul”
I bet all white, Trump supporters to rescue woke transgender embassy +CIA personnel
I bet vax status didn’t stop anyone’s deployment for this “mission”. Funny that.
Biden didnt send anybody anywhere
He probably doesn’t even know where he is.
He’s wandering around lost in the White House shrubbery.
That wouldn’t happen if they hired little girls to walk the proper paths ahead of him.
Biden would pay attention to them.
I smell a Monty Python sketch coming…….
I’m seeing Benny Hill.
Biden is on vacation — officially. Not kidding.
We need a proper president. I don’t see one in the line of succession.
I have a strong recommendation, but they ain’t listening.
No, he is back in his basement in Delaware being pumped full of drugs to keep him minimally cogent. He can only stay awake a few hours before he needs massive infusions…..the charade is about to collapse.
That is exactly what they did to Hitler.
That was really funny. The Secret Service looked so upset.
He’s in Delaware till Wednesday ??
He sent Hunter out.
For yellow.
Do you really think they left heavy weapons behind just because of ineptitude or stupidity? Remember what happened after the first 9/11, the Patriot Act, the increased IC role? What will happen to our freedoms if we get another attack?
We’ve been funding ISIS since Obama. Leaving all the heavy equipment was part of the plan. Saves on weight and shipping versus just sending pallets of cash.
It is simply the easiest and most direct way for the Democrats to supply the Taliban. In their minds, the financial loss of that equipment will need to be “offset” with other money the will “reroute” to the Party coffers.
There was no reason they should not have had everything not nailed down moved out of there.
They could have taken home every stapler and paper clip if they wanted.
Don’t need to send it home. What is the nearest friendly country? Send it there. Maybe trans-ship later.
Indeed. So the question is why didn’t they?
If? Our border is wide open.
When is more like it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/?tid=bottom_nav
Afghanistan Papers …..
link to SIGAR IG interviews of senior military personnel, government officials, Afghan govt personnel, and others…
Trump had leverage over the Taliban when he was in office. Little do they know that he’s still in charge and just watching their disregard for their previous agreements with him.
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There are plenty of delusional morons around, on both ‘sides’ of the aisle. There’s even some here… heck, one of ’em is even pretending to be pResident right now!
BINGO!
No need for name-calling.
Maybe not but I’m disgusted. I lost good men, boys I grew up with, people I loved, in this mess. To watch it all go up in smoke and listen to foolishness about Trump being in charge is just too much to ask. Trump had his chance to get them out and didn’t. Now democrats are doing what democrats do best: making everything worse.
Not suffering fools when people are getting killed. They need to wake up before we’re all next.
Sorry for your losses, but PT was constantly lied to and sandbaged when it came to troop numbers and his attempts at movements blocked every step of the way. He had an agreement for the drawdown, which Biden broke. This is not PT ‘s fault
Calling names serves no useful purpose and is unwelcome. Civility recommended.
One suspects you know better and are able to express yourself in more polite ways.
Yes, be polite. That’s worked SO WELL for conservatives.
“Please, Mister Overlord. I’m bent over. But be gentle this time, pretty please.”
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Welcome to moderation…..
dream on, sweetpea.
Smoke out the RATS
Sounds like another Obama’s way of getting our weapons to them. I recall another such episode where the friendly just handed our stuff to the enemy.
Exactly. With 10% for the Big guy.?
https://news.usni.org/2021/08/12/pentagon-sending-3000-troops-to-evacuate-u-s-embassy-in-afghanistan
How many people work in the embassy that they need this many people and so many days to evacuate everyone?
They are bringing as many Afghans as they can with them. Refugees, ya’ know.
Likely thousands. Plus, the locals who provided support and assistance. The CIA and intelligence people on the ground have to shred and destroy all sensitive items/intelligence. That will take days.
I’m thinking our warlords etc will be coming more than the actual local helpers.
Have our govt agencies not entered the digital age? I believe it is called a delete button. It seems to work well for Hillary!
Woke generals are so quiet.. Where’s Mattis?
Oh what former big mouth embassador Bolton?
Silence on the Lam
Oh my, you need to copyright that. Brilliant:)
(TM).
Done.
Or Petraeus, or McChrystal also. Petraeus was very outspoken about changing Confederate general names of Army bases. Is that more important than losing in Afghanistan?
Why getting so riled up about that godforsaken sheithole? Afghanistan was neither the reason for 9/11 nor the Boston (Marathon) Bombing 10 years after. The reason for that was a mind-boggling incompetence (if not outright malfeasance) of our intelligence community.
How did those Muslim terrorists get here in the first place, huh? Did they swim? No! John Brennan and Cofer Black who is currently overseeing one of the “firm’s” money laundering operations in Riga, Latvia let them come to the States legally! Imagine that!
Unless we are ready to carpet-bomb Afghanistan to clear it of its indigenous population to commence mining opretion before the Chinese do, we have no business being there whatsoever.
I’m riled because of the over two dozen good men I personally knew who went over there and got blown up or shot so the US could ultimately fund and arm the men who killed them.
I don’t give a steaming, flying crap about the country, their people, or their poppies. But I’m FURIOUS that a generation of Americans were conned into fighting and were killed, maimed, or suicided afterward while a bunch of corrupt douche canoes in this country could get rich.
And every single member of Congress, every person at the Pentagon, and every other corruptocrat in DC can rot.
*SPIT*
I feel the same way.
I think we should carpet- b0mb DC instead. That’s where our real enemies are.
My sister lives there. She counsels vets only. Can we get her and them out first?
Thank your sister for what she does, from someone who’s seen first hand the difference people like her make.
With your permission, I might share your comment with her without mentioning names. She should have retired ten years ago. But she keeps getting referrals so she stays on. She has never broken confidence, but I know how hard it is for her to be “stalwart” as she listens to our vets’ stories. She has said her heart breaks a little more with each individual story and she just wants to walk away from it all.
But her patients (she calls them “clients”) didn’t, and so she stays for them. I honestly believe one day they’ll just find her slumped over in her chair because her heart got exhausted from taking in the grief of others. She may love our vets more than I love her, and that’s saying a lot.
Knock at your door coming in 10,9,8,7…..
And we’re putting the lives of American soldiers at risk while Americans here in the USA are getting murdered by illegals crossing our open borders and giving us the middle finger.
I just heard Newt Gengrich disgustedly expressing why the Senate is different from the House: “They somehow think that being ‘bi-partisan’ is impressive. They haven’t learned that Dems will not be bi-partisan. Reagan knew.” (words to that effect).
In other words, Newt wouldn’t state the truth: “There are many corrupt senators.” And, of course, the reason he wouldn’t say that, I am sure, is that they would throw the ‘corrupt’ back at him.” That’s just one reason I can’t stand hosts and networks who throw former reps at us as analysts.
I’m ticked at POTUS 45 right now too, for all he has to do is state the reason blood and treasure were lost in Afghanistan is that our representatives and their family and their friends make money off war.
Spread the criticism around, Sundance. They all deserve it.
The discussion of corruption, even coming from my favorite POTUS, HAS TO BE TOTALLY HONEST or the criticism is useless.
We are at the abyss and we need Dem voters who are American citizens to get in this fight against corruption with us. We can only do that if we criticize personally Dems and GOP.
Oh please, Newt Gingrich and his plastic wife are on the advisory board of Pence’s new grift Advancing American Freedom, along with Kellyanne Conway and a few other familiar names. Brought to you by winred of course. ?
Will they even have time to evacuate all of the embassy personnel, and other Americans? This is becoming a real bad chit show.
“While the Taliban sits just 30 miles outside of Kabul, U.S. officials have begged for the embassy to be spared. Many analysts believe it will be burned down on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. ”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/08/14/biden-finally-releases-a-statement-on-afghanistan-n2594158
Begging the Taliban to not attack the embassy. And sending strongly worded tweets …….. yeah, that will show terrorists not to mess with the West. How pathetic! And the Useful Idiots support all Xiden does, and they have the audacity to Project their Bolshevik garbage onto Conservatives.
What a flipping joke
The people of Britain are really mad also because Britain is also sending troops back to that shite show in Afghanistan.
Don’t forget the Afghan interpreters and their families that trusted the US and to whom the US promised safe passage out of the country. There doesn’t appear to be enough time to get them out, too.
They’ll be slaughtered, or at least the males. The women may be given to the muj as “wives.” Biden added to the US’ shameful history of abandoning allies:
As the Khymer Rouge approached Phnom Penh in the last days of its campaign to take over Cambodia, US Ambassador to Cambodia John Gunther Dean quickly made plans to evacuate US embassy staff and their families along with key Cambodian government officials, including Prince Sirik Matak, Matal declined the offer. In the hours leading up to the evacuation Sirik Matak responded to Dean’s invitation:
The Khymer Rouge shot Matal in the stomach. He took three days to die.
I got a bad feeling about this. But wtf in clown world I guess I get squeamish about everything our falsely elected government does. I have heard that we have given up our air base. I have no military experience but this makes little sense. No way in or out unless small fleets from what I understand. Ughh if you weigh our leadership’s rhetoric about purging our military of a certain ideology it concerns me. I hope this is not plan to do that. Most of the soldiers they send in there from here on out will be the types they want to eliminate.
falsely
electedselected governmentFixed it for ya’.
Luke, it’s been haunting me.
The good men get killed. The corrupt men become generals.
It tears up my heart to say that. Men in my family bled for America when it was still a bunch of colonies and in every war since.
Luke, I read that the Biden regime gave the order to abandon the Bagram (sp) Air Force Base near Kabul. I understand our most advanced aircraft is located at this base. It would be logical for evacuation purposes to keep this base operating. There are many runways there.
It seems to me the timing and planning of this evacuation was purposely done to help the Taliban and inflict the greatest harm to America as possible. 9-11 is fast approaching and anniversaries are particularly appealing to jihadists.
Yeah that’s what I heard too. Doesn’t make much sense. Over the years government is infamous for not adding up in the department of logical behavior. But something about this seems more sinister. I freely admit I am very untrusting of our current leaders.
That’s another thing; there’s no major supplies coming in or out. Again, no military experience. But if we have no air field you don’t need to be overly skilled to understand what that means. Only covert ops come and go. That would be fine except for there’s way too many people left who may need to be rescued.
I really don’t give a sh*t about Afghanistan.
just like COVID.
i hope people question leaving behind anything but a building ( no weapons, drones, etc)
And rig the building so it explodes when the Taliban go in to take up residence.
Obama is running the show. He hates America. Everything that is being done is to weaken America.
It has been said the Confederacy had better Generals than the Union, but the Confederacy lost, so their Generals must not have been way better. Clearly though, the Taliban has way better Generals than the US Military has as they have won and on a shoe string budget by contrast.
Had Beauregard and Johnston listened to a little known brigade commander named Thomas Jackson during the battle of first bull run, the union would have lost to the confederacy. Thank God that the confederacy didnt have the resources and industry that the union had.
Joe is probably in Bed….. He might hear about it in the morning…..
Just like Hitler on D-Day…. no one dared wake him up….
Rommel never got orders to stop the invasion with his tanks…
Had he been mobilized D-Day would have failed miserably.
One thing I am not clear about..just how many actual Taliban fighters are there anyway??? a lot of. pix show groups of 2-5..and pix of one guy with a weapon guarding a ton of men..you are just sitting there..
Wiki claims 75,000
What’s happening in Afghanistan serves a purpose.
It’s not a mistake.
The chaotic pullout of our military is a means to an end.
This is about further weakening the US.
Who benefits?
CHINA
Raytheon.
The oligarchs of the WEF
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“In the big picture Afghanistan was nothing more than another big circle-jerk of taxpayer money laundered to corporations and themselves.”
BINGO!
why cant the equipment be brought back with the embassy closing?
Not enough time to load all of it unto C-17s after abandoning Bagram. Ditto for enough runways that can handle that many of them in Kabul with all the civilians crowded near the airport.
Besides it was cheaper to leave it and replace it then to ship it all back. Still does not excuse why it was not destroyed in place.
right, but why the rush?
this indicates this was not a negotiated withdrawal…
edit – good point with the cost to return it.. didnt think of that. .. … yea on the destroying it, thats a clear indicator something was wrng with this.
Optics?
There was a negotiated withdrawal arranged by President Trump. The powers that be could not let him have any sort of victory, especially one that did not serve their interests.
As for the rest, humiliating the U.S. with imagery reminiscent of the occupation of the embassy in Tehran or of the evacuation from Saigon would serve to project weakness abroad.
so a public demonstration of our submission to the world order.
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there is zero doubt china has our Presidency.
The operative word should be “selected”
Exactly. Logistics of loading and bringing back home unlikely, but then why not destroy it all? Why? Because Obama and his minions are that evil.
Because Biden wanted them to have it.
We had the capability to bring everything back if we wanted. We didn’t WANT to.
And oh boy did they stretch it out. Actually kind of surprised Oba—‘scuse me, Biden, went along with PDJT’s withdrawal of forces. NOT surprised at how incredibly badly they are handling it—whether on purpose or because they are imbeciles, or some combination of both.
Yep, they suck.
Agree. But have to read more comments before a reply.
That, my friend, is all it is ever really about!
At first I thought maybe the White House wanted the withdrawal to be completely chaotic. But the more I think about, the more I doubt it. I think the U.S. military is just truly incompetent. Bagram airbase should have been the very last thing to be abandoned.
Don’t rule out multiple possibilities can exist simultaneously: incompetence + intentional maneuvers that set us up. When evil takes hold, all bets are off. A normal person can’t fathom it because we’re not evil. Evil knows no bounds. Everything is possible, or as the left loves to announce: by any means necessary.
This is actually a “good” way for us to get involved again. 3,000 troops are on the way.
Perhaps, those 4000 troops in Afghanistan were all vetted through the new “military process” and fully mRNA vaccinated.
Hmm…. God Help Them.
Carter had to deal with 270 or so hostages…. is Biden now gonna have thousands?
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.
THAT is what this is all about. Optics and a narrative used to create a reason to bring more Afghans to the USA.
No, to start a WAR. A WAR would help to keep the pressure off of China Joe failing so bad in his policies at home. Hey everybody look over there, not here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8x8wBSXIAkbGQQ?format=jpg
I’ll speculate the Biden regime fell into pre-arranged trap here. It is up to you to decide who set the trap. Someone once famously said to remember these people are stupid. Enjoy the show.
Sorry not sorry, it is hard to enjoy a show where our military & innocent civilians are put in harms way.
“Enjoy the show” is an awfully glib attitude to have when our military are flying into hell right now.
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Thank you, Sarah. Those of us with ties to Fort Bragg are walking around with our guts in knots.
The Brits are going in to get their ambassador.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9894243/amp/SAS-ordered-save-Man-Kabul.html?__twitter_impression=true
I spoke a relative in Australia today and learned the Australian special forces are in Kabul getting Australians out.
When denouncing the CIA, Harry Truman said, “One Pentagon is one too many”.
This is a by the numbers repeat of Comrade Obama’s withdraw from Iraq, knowing there was a very high likelihood the Iraqi Army and defense forces would fold like a cheap suit as soon as the Obama created ISIS arose. Their mistake was the under estimation of the Kurds, a few Iraqi Units and likely intervention by GCC “Volunteer” Units spoiled the plan. That forced the change in direction to “save” Iraq.
Remember that 6 weeks ago, Comrade Obama publicly bragged his former team was running the White House.
This time, there are NO Kurds, Loyal Army Units nor GCC Volunteers to stem the tide. Plus, Sock Puppet Joe’s Handlers have sold the franchise to China Inc. and their Global Financiers, including mineral and drug rights.
These idiots have set up an 1842 British or 1989 Russian style route and withdraw under pressure, whereby the Afghans extracted a heavy toll on the retreating troops. Nothing says prime terrorist suicide target like massed Western Diplomats and troops defending them.
To make it worse this is Afghanistan. Since time of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, every invader of Afghanistan ended their occupation in the SAME manner. In this case there is the catalyst of Islam to make it worse. US Political and Military Leaders are the most backward and idiotic students of History that have ever existed.
All those who are now thinking about joining the US Military, or reenlisting in the US Military, should know this simple fact – They will not be serving the People; they will be serving the State which sees the People as the enemy. So what they will be doing can no longer logically be seen as an act of patriotism, but rather its opposite, an anti-patriotic act.
They won’t be defending freedom. And not one more drop of American blood should be wasted defending profits.
War is a racket.
One counterpoint.
There is always need for intelligence and that involves conducting espionage. Absolutely dangerous, but necessary in war.
Me thinks the U.S. will need to reimplement the draft.
Who in their right mind would join any branch of Bidens military.
Vindman and company, transgendered nut jobs. Corrupt politicians many fraudulently elected.
This will get very,very bad.
My good mate in Scotland tells me Russia ships and submarines are strutting around the U.K.
Waving their you know whats at the E.U.
This is FUNDING the tali’s !
billions of $$$ of taxpayer paid for arms, ammunition, equipment !
and how much of this will end up in iran and china’s hands ???
and passed on to terrorists !
seems like aid and comfort to the enemy to me !
does it make themharass China, with more equipment tooo? making that pipeline from Ghaudar port via Iran thru Pak.
nah, Biden is to owned by China.
Bush was an idiot, but he at least was smart enough to knock down our troop counts in Afghanistan to less than 30,000 or so. Obama came into office and QUADRUPLED those troop counts. Everything you see today is a result of that stupidity.
Trump came into office 8 years later and immediately asked the generals to give him a workable plan there. They couldn’t do it. Their plan was “Stay forever, with no goals, objectives or strategy”. Pulling out was the only possible course, but the idiot generals and the State Department can’t even execute a proper withdrawal. Some of these generals should be drummed out of our military for this.
Agree. Still have so many comments to read!
… came November 4, 2020… entire world now a joke.
… there’s only one adult now left in the room: China!
…brace yourself.
Nope, Russia too.
Different, but a true force, and ruthless.
I know several Russians.
If this happened 7 months after Trump had become president the mainstream media and politicians would all have been calling for him to go but now there is only a stunning and guilty silence
They have no guilt because they have no morals and they have no soul. No doubt they’re scrambling to figure out how to make this go away and throw out distractions.
President Trump’s approach to Afghanistan/Taliban was to place responsibility on Pakistan. If MSM is claiming Biden is just carrying out what P45 already had in place, is Biden leveraging Pakistan? PRESIDENT Trump’s statement said something to the effect that biden gave up the leverage.
I’ll keep going through CTH archives to get a clear understanding of 45s doctrine, but feel free to throw me a bone if you know.
Edit: I found the article on leverage. This site is awesome!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2017/10/13/trump-doctrine-delivering-results-with-pakistan-via-afghanistan/#more-139887
President Trump’s statement included “…I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone”. The deterrent was in part trade relations with US, Pakistan, and India.
How much of a part did frickin Covid play in this?
Worst President Ever. Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter are off the hook now.
Obama? He’s tied with biden for the worst president ever imo.
Mogadishu redux
The Pentagon should be fined for the total losses of equipment in Afghanistan and have their budget reduced by an equivalent amount – for starters. The responsible military leaders should be sacked and their pensions drastically cut as an example to the rest of the military leadership.
The only remaining way into or out of Kabul is the airport. Once the U.S. “rescue” troops are marched into the trap, they will disable the airport and begin the slaughter. There are 30,000-50,000 Taliban with U.S. helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles and mint condition top line weapons and millions of rounds of ammo for a sustained slaughter.
Must-Read Twitter Thread About Afghanistan
By Mike Huckabee
With the Taliban now reportedly seizing 60% of Afghanistan (as of this writing), and possibly also seizing large amounts of US weaponry, author, former NSC staffer and Afghan vet Paul D. Miller wrote a must-read Twitter thread before what he considers to be myths about US involvement in Afghanistan turn into accepted truths.
Can they fly the helis? If not…
They’ve got old Soviet helicopters, as well as some Black Hawks left behind at Bagram. The Soviet ones might be simple enough to fly, the Black Hawks, may not so much.
The Taliban also have anti-aircraft missiles.
anybody on the FBI ‘hunt americans team’ starting to feel bad about the orders? after seeing the Taliban armed.
well I read 20,000 Taliban troops are staged outside Kabul…sitting ducks? Easy to carpet bomb them all yes?
Sounds simple. Except for the logistics of rearming and refueling combat aircraft.
Precisely what Bagram was for.
Much less effective with several hour flight times to the theater never mind requiring mid air refueling to get them there in the first place.
It is a total cluster.
Thinking of every single soldier on those planes right now. Pray that G-d watch over them and keep them safe. We need everyone to come home, alive, without a single injury, or so much as a scratch.
Has General Flynn come out and made any statements about this Afghan situation?
Which one? General Charles Flynn is the Commander of USArmy Pacific. He was promoted by Biden. Makes you wonder. Yes its Mike Flynns younger brother.
One good thing that can come from all of this, Afghanistan and plenty of other things like Wokeism and CRT, is if enlistments and reenlistment in the US Military, especially the US Army, dry up.
There’s always the draft.
Heh, no need for a draft when they can sign up every eligible border crossing illegal enticing them with citizenship for them and all their kinfolk for their service! /s
That is one of the goals of the Left. Wipe out our military one way or the other. They emasculate it while discouraging real patriots and qualified warriors from joining or reenlisting. We need to clean house of the traitors at the top and rebuild it the way it was meant to be to protect the USA.
Yup. Create an environment that’s so demoralizing and the bar gets set so low that they are able to transform it (same goes for the police) into something else. Something in their image of a new world order. Something they will use for evil and not for good. Something no good man would be a part of, but something a different kind of man might join.
Terrifying times in which we live.
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Why would that be a “good thing”? So that China can take us over even easier? So that there’s no hope at all that we have a force of patriots in the greater ranks? So that those who ARE in the Army and CANNOT get out for years — like some of our children — can just be more easily slaughtered? Please stop with this anti-military track you constantly seem to raise, libeling maybe a million good people who aren’t Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, et al.
The Taliban enter Kabul. Reporting is US embassy staff will be captured or killed. This is a nightmare draw down and it’s all on Biden.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1426708787663081476
They blocked this Tweet, whatever it was!
Must have been the truth, then.
I found this report: https://www.dailynews.com/2021/08/15/afghan-president-flees-the-country-as-taliban-move-on-kabul/
“The U.S. Embassy in Kabul later suspended all operations and told Americans to shelter in place, saying it has received reports of gunfire at the international airport.”
Heartbreaking. Please God protect these people!
Remember when I got to Kabul, and some general was blowing some smoke up my 0bama hole, and I was thinking, “This is some f’ed up Schiff!” Remember leaving Kabul and thinking, “Lived here for a while, but glad I’m never gonna see this 0bama hole again.” Correct twice.
CCR Soldier Boy, Circa 2012:
Just about nine years ago I set out on the Afghanistan road
Seekin’ my fame and glory, lookin’ to turn the Mullah’s Hemorrhoid into a pot of gold
Well, things got bad, and things got worse, I guess you will know the tune
Oh ! lord, stuck in Afghanistan yet again
Flew in yet again on a big plane, I hope I’ll be in one piece flyin out when I go.
I was yet again just passin’ through, must now be yet another 5 tours or more.
Running out of time and patience [Not to complain but whatever the hell happened to my youth?!”], looks like they took still more of my friends.
Oh ! lord, Im stuck in Afghanistan yet again.
The Generals at the Pentagon said yet again I was on my way.
Somewhere I lost their connection, they ran out of words to say.
I came into Kabul, yet another one year stand, looks like the plans fell through yet again
Oh ! lord, stuck in Afghanistan yet again.
Mmmm…
If I only had a woman [“Hey Jack, do you remember what a woman is?”], for evry tour Ive done.
And evry time Ive had to fight while the Generals sat back home empowering Islam and power drunk.
You know, Id like to catch the next plane back to where Im from.
Oh ! lord, Im stuck in Afghanistan yet again.
Oh ! lord, Im stuck in Afghanistan yet again.
Afghanistan? Allah’s catbox! There were some dudes who came back spitting truth, and the Generals and politicians shut them up fast cuz too many people making too much money. Remember hangin’ with my CO at midnight, in the snow, coughing with bronchitis from breathing the lovely Kabul air, and he said: “We’ve got helicopters, cigars, and guns! What more do we need?”
Stolen Elections Have Consequences.
Truest words typed today!
Please join me in lifting up prayers for the men and women heading into this pit and that their mission is successfully and efficiently completed. I have no way of knowing what this inept administration sees as the long term plan here but the head in the sand position of Joe Biden is sickening. Everything in Washington DC has sickened me recently. There are no decent humans left there. None. I pray for a cleansing of hearts and that upright God Fearing people can move forward to take this country back.
Joining you in prayer. This is the sole priority right now. Pray. Not a single American casualty.
Remember when things got really sucky in Kabul, will go to the Wall of Fame of over 100 super-star American men and women who lost there life there, which helped put things into perspective — God have mercy on their souls.
Aug 13,
6 MONTHS, lol. brought to you by the Russia hoax idiots.
@MacaesBruno
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Aug 13
I think the US intelligence community issued a warning a couple days ago that Kabul could fall in six months. No one in Afghanistan will believe this is just incompetence
U S Intelligence community…what a waste of space and oxygen …
From their predicitions, one would think they work for the Taliban. Or vice versa — which in prior times was true.
…money, time, blood…