Apparently, the communications goal from the White House team was to create a strawman argument around the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, and totally avoid the main point of crisis right now being the method and manner of the withdrawal.
However, he went one step further which makes it worse.
Joe Biden blamed the Afghan people, currently being hunted in the streets of Kabul by the Taliban, for not availing themselves of earlier opportunities for evacuation at the time when Joe Biden and his Secretary of State were telling them the country was in no imminent threat of collapse.
…”I know that there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghans — civilians sooner. Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier — still hopeful for their country. “… [Full Transcript]
The entire speech delivered by Biden was a classic example of a non-sequitur argument. Biden kept defending his decision to exit Afghanistan (which few disagree with) while avoiding the massive crisis created by his unplanned and haphazard manner/method of exit. A point that was not missed by former President Trump:
Biden took no questions, ran away from the podium and immediately hopped back on the helicopter to escape back to his bunker in Camp David.
Joe Biden is an embarrassing joke, installed on our nation.
In the late 1970s, we had Nightline – America Held Hostage, with Ted Koppel.
We are there now, again. America Held Hostage, Day 209.
No Eagle Claw unless DIO.
The week is still young. Sadly.
They need another false flag bad.
That’s right today is only Monday… whew woo
Trade our war mongers for the hostages. Starting with the Bushes.
Bushie Boy is really quiet.
Nightline was more the early 80s as the embassy in Tehran was seized on 4 Nov 1979…it ran for the entire final year of Jimmah Carter’s presidency with the embassy and hostage updates helping a bit to usher in RWR
Harris will look good by comparison.
Not sure about that. She will be at least as bad as Joe.
https://trendingpolitics.com/kamala-harris-refused-knab/
She isn’t politically refined. Her anxiety and anger issues would quickly surface. Being an idiot is more forgivable so Biden gets away with his political shortcomings.
She pulls coin and that’s it.
Heels up couldn’t get past Iowa nor her own state of CA. This woman is a feckless, leaderless, horrifying incompetent VP.
Bastards in DC take notes.
Taliban didn’t have F15’s or nukes. Neither do we.
she was polling at 2% in CA when she dropped out of the race…remember these are Dimm pollsters where you normally subtract or add 10 to the reported results depending on the party…not sure what that means for CamelToe
It just means that as president, she will have the honor of being installed as the first female puppet in chief with whom we will still be admonished not to pay attention to who is behind the curtain.
Biden didn’t win Iowa either did he?
Exactly.
Uh, no.
Au contraire – after Republicans retake the House next year, Kalamity becomes Biden’s impeachment insurance.
I’m not so sure we can count on that, given the now embedded voting machines and corrupt voting practices that I believe have been going on much longer than the last fraudulent election. Add in supposedly conservative constitutional candidates who shed that skin as soon as they’re ensconced. We’re all going to have to pay a lot closer attention to the candidates who swear to be what they claim to be.
Wasn’t that Obama’s plan after all? To find the right time to get rid of Joe then install Kamala? This falls right into Obama’s lap.
That is the point of my post.
Harris has a lot of experience at pulling out quickly.
Just ask Willie Brown.
She’ll make a good little puppet and enjoy the perks of the presidency.
Thumb nail of Biden’s speech:
I am proud of what I did.
I would do it again.
How dare anyone question me.
At which point he closed his binder, turned around and left.
The speech of a dictator.
You forgot – screw those cowardly Afghanis.
And Americans left behind.
If we had been conquered by a hostile foreign power who then installed a satrap, what, exactly, would be different than what we now have with the rotting vegetable in the White House doing his level best to destroy our nation?
American institutions have been conquered –and internationalized.
That’s what we are, a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.
Indeed. Joe just did for China & Iran what they could have never accomplished for themselves.
Wrong country
We were conquered by a foreign power and a domestic enemy power within. It is called, “Rigged Fraudulent Election”. It is as simple as it is devastating.
I’m gonna just toss something out here. Anyone who has ever worked in a large corporation will immediately recognize this and smile.
The CEO makes a policy decision on a direction the company is to take. He passes that decision down to his underlings who are in charge of formulating and implementing the plan for pursuit of this policy. We’ll call those underlings “scheming weasels,” or perhaps “generals.” The problem is, the scheming weasels (generals?) are opposed to that policy direction, and in fact support the opposite policy direction.
So the scheming weasels put together a plan designed to fail so spectacularly, and so discredit the policy direction, that the policy direction will be abandoned and no attempt will be made to try it again. And if the scheming weasels are REALLY clever, their plan will be SO effective that the policy direction THEY support, which is 180 degrees opposite, will actually be adopted by the CEO.
Trump makes a plan to get out of Afghanistan. Loses election. Biden takes over and insists on sticking to the plan. Military drawn down to about 1,000 soldiers. Flaming dumpster fire exit disaster. And today, Biden states he is sending 6,000 troops BACK INTO Afghanistan.
Uhhhhhh ……..
Ahhh a feature not a flaw!
It did cross my mind.
No. These people are downright incompetent, and have no respect for life.
It’s that simple. The people surrounding and propping up the puppetry of Biden’s flaccid manhood are proven losers. They unleashed ISIS, they gave Iran a fast track to nuclear Armageddon … they created chaos in Libya and a fustercluck in Syria. The shadow Govt. Apparatchiks are simply incompetent FOOLS.
No need to overthink, or conspiracy theorize
Hanlon’s razor died in 2020.
Passes incompetent & goes straight to pure evil.
I would say they are evil and have no respect for life.
It’s not incompetency. Any one of us here could figure out a strategy to get all Americans and others who helped us these 20 years… out peacefully.
Ya just tell the Talaban… stand down until we have left. If you do not, we blow you up.
Then when we have the last man on the plane and its in the air… send in a few fighters to blow up the embassy, the airport, tanks, whatever we left behind we don’t want them to use against us or their neighbors.
It’s certainly a possibility. Something i just posted on another site is that I hope this is not a setup to make some more of our prized troops go through a really tough time. And I don’t mean the woke team I’m talking more about the deplorable ones. The ones the military commanders seem to be head hunting now. I hate being at the point where I think everything is a conspiracy but welcome to the US. A country clearly suffering from mass psychosis. That is a great video below for those who have not seen it.
Thats a good video
Eventually Luke, the crazies will drag the rest of us into there kingdom.
There’s no escape!
Correction, “Trump” did not lose the election…
Indeed. Always consider the source.
Dinesh De’Souza has an excellent explanation regarding the scheming weasels. Starts at 11:27:
two major problems with your “theory”…PDJT would NEVER intentionally harm American prestige or put Americans at risk to set such a plan in motion…PDJT did NOT lose the 2020 election, it was STOLEN from him by the globalists and greedy pols
It does make you wonder. The stench from how Obama depleted our military lives on. What the mandated jabs won’t take care of, sending them off into a losing war will.
Also remember … B. Hussein O. is a member of the moose limb brutha hood. This fiasco helps that group a lot.
Here is what I didn;t hear explained.. why did he wait till the Taliban were at the gates of the city before he did anything. It is not like the Taliban rampaged thru the country in 2 days it took a few weeks . when he saw that the citizens weren;t fighting back and any soliders were giving up why didn;t he at that time
start the process.. order all non essential citizens out in 24 to 48 hours, when they started getting closer to the city he should have evacuated all the non essential embassy people.. Instead he did nothing with anyone till they got the gates of the city whey did he think those troops would be any different the rest of the ones just running away and giving up?
Our satellites must be down … or aimed at all the US white supremacist encampments … so our 17 Intelligence Agencies didn’t notice the increased Afghan road traffic of Toyota pickups with 50cal. guns
I spotted some Ford 150s in the procession.
… wow … Ford must have improved its quality quite a bit … the taliban only drives the most reliable pickup trucks …
17 intelligence agencies all agreed russians hacked the dnc server – so said my neighbor. You made me laugh!
Right… our 17 Intel agencies … ?
Great question. The thugs running our govt (not Biden) seem to have greenlighted the taliban.
Obama still wants his caliphate.
As for the Americans over there, you know they are Biden voter Libtards having no; Rationale, Judgment, Commonsense. If they had; Rationale, Judgment, Commonsense they would had seen the disaster coming and got the hell out of there sooner.
In terms of the Taliban is any thinking person surprised the actions of the Taliban? If so, what did you expect the Taliban would do differently?
Jenevive, you my dear are thinking & actually formulating a plan because you love this country & her people. Joe hates this country and is determined to destroy it and enrich himself & the rest of the Biden Crime Family. Joe has spent his entire life cheating, lying, & stealing. He has been on the wrong side of every single issue. Why would we expect anything to change amid the dementia. Pure Evil.
I think Joe is being blackmailed. All his controllers have to say is: “how do you think your child molesting drug addict son Hunter will fair in the big house, Joe?”
Haha. You think he gives a shit about Hunter? Haha.
He gets his orders from Obama, that’s why. It doesn’t have to make sense. And Obama gets his directives from the billionaire powers that be. One thing is for sure, they know exactly what they’re doing and why.
The Globalarchy.
He has exceeded his “Best if Used By” date.
Heck, even Obama knew that, and still brought him on-board as his running mate.
… in about 2009
https://therightscoop.com/watch-gen-jack-keane-blasts-bidens-dishonest-remarks-and-lies-about-afghan-citizens-and-sacrifices/
Highly detailed overview from General Jack Keane and he gives a very interesting perspective.
He’s not at Camp David, he’s in Wilmington, DE getting his dementia treatments… no joke.
“The FAA has issued Temporary Flight Restrictions for the rest of the week in Wilmington. Looks like Joe Biden is going right back on vacation after addressing the nation. “
Elise Stefanik nailed it by calling him a “deserter”; I agree, if he’s at home in Wilmington, he deserted in the face of the enemy. Being President is a 24/7/360 job, anybody with a brain knows Joe Biden is incapable of doing the job, so “deserter” is appropriate.
Deserter – In – Chief
Deserter-In-
ChiefThiefIs he in Wilmington?
Maybe he’s in Rehoboth Beach?
It’s real pleasant down the shore this time of year
“Beach friends” and all that, don’tcha know …
https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/joe-biden-house
I’d bet on Rehoboth.
Agree the flight websites show open perimeter around Wilmington based on how the planes are flowing in and around the midlantic corridor
OOOHHH! THAT’S what they call Dementia treatments now…”VACATION”!!
This would explain the dodgy camp David situation room photos.
Dodgy camp David photos! Apparently The Bannon WarRoom could see the time for the Russian clock in that situation room was showing an hour difference than it should be so the photo is not current.
Don’t forget – Kumala bragged that she had the last input into Bidung’s decision.
And today she says “don’t pin this shit on me”
And Psaki is on vacation for a week.
Speed up the forensic audits of the 2020 election, please, before we find ourselves in WW3.
We are already in it. And it will be entirely fought within our borders.
It’s not like much of the world wants a piece of us… oh wait…
You state the challenge. Now convince the American people it is not only the case, but the reality.
Right. That’s why Freedom of the Press and speech really is important.
Oh come on!
China owns the USG, China and Russia are doing exactly what they want, Iran is winning in the ME.
The Southern Hemispheric Invasion of the US continues unopposed.
Who would BOTHER to go to war with us?
He blamed Donald Trump and George Bush for the quagmire, yes… but he also sorta threw Bambi under the bus there as well, IMHO, when he talked about “past US Presidents” staying so long in a place where we were clearly never welcome!
Wonder if “Dr.” Jill insisted on that being put into the speech as a direct challenge to The One, who is obviously part of the group calling the shots behind the scenes? She is NOT going to give up her seat of power easily and if they try to boot Joe using the 25th, I think we will all need a lot more popcorn!
Jill vs. Kamala/Obama.
I wonder what dirt Jill could spill on the Obama years to make him back off, but would not make Joe, as his VP, also look bad.
When Xiden has his scheduled stroke she will be shuffled off to be the caregiver someplace, praying she personally doesn’t suffer a Clinton “mischief”.
This idiot oversaw Afghanistan for 8 years as VP. He isn’t new to the geography or the US military challenges in that country. This should have been a piece of cake for him.
Speaking of ah, DOCTOR Jill … I must say, this haphazard, illogical, disorganized run for the airport sure sounds like the “plan” of a liberal woman. All emotion and drama … not a speck of analysis or organization. A reactive retreat, not a proactive, orderly, evacuation.
I can imagine ah, DOCTOR Jill getting all weepy and emotional … saying “let’s get out NOW!” Who cares what happens later … let’s just get our people home NOW!
It sure seems as though ah, DOCTOR Jill is calling the shots?
It’s not Jill. It’s not Joe. It’s whoever is really the puppet master and I don’t think that is Obama either. Joe and Barry are mere pawns… “useful idiots” in this global cabal.
Thank you Kare!!!! Obama is a puppet.
I have read about Obama, being in charge, in at least half of the above comments…
Obama is gone, he never ran anything, he never had a job, he never participated as president…
Why do any of y’all think that feckin’ ijit has anything to do regarding Bidet?
Bidet is on his own….sure, the powers that be are trying to control him, but it seems to me that Jill has a bit of a thumb in that pie.
Also, they are dealing with someone that has abnormal cognitive skills, yet he is pResident of the United States, with all of the authority that goes along with it.
My GOSH!!!! What is it with women who end up in positions of power?? Has anyone else noticed what thoroughly unattractive, bossy, hectoring, unpleasant bossy boot harridans they are? The only one I can think of right off the top of my head who isn’t is Kristi Noem…but she has blotted her copybook well and truly. And I will tell you also that women in power in Europe are exactly the same…with the added interesting personal characteristic… most are childless. So their policies tend to not incorporate any thought for family centered governing. Think Merkel in Germany who has ruined that country irredeemably.
Spot on!
Biteme reads his tough guy teleprompter response then heads back to Camp David to challenge Mario & Luigi at another round of road rage.
Another Political Elitist doing what he does best….protect his “Legacy”
America is screwed!
Has been since Wilson, maybe Lincoln.
I really hope President Trump will make a video on this. Not just a written statement, but directly speak to people.
Exactly, people need to hear him speak much more than that propped up cardboard cut out.
What’s to stop President Trump from speaking to the nation?
Trump has a rally on the 21st.
But will it be broadcast? Well… there will be a few clips designed to make Trump appear silly and narcissistic.
“Broadcast” ain’t what it used to be.
His message is much more available now than it was immediately after the coup.
“Joe Biden blamed the Afghan people, currently being hunted in the streets of Kabul by the Taliban, for not availing themselves to earlier opportunities for evacuation”
Sure, and why shouldn’t he blame them? They were clearly told to fill out the requisite evacuation documents before….
A lot of them do not have necessary vax passport cards.
Joe, the issue isn’t why are we leaving Afghanistan.
It‘s why you pushed it back to 9/11, why you cut off Afghan air support. and why China was so ready to recognize the Taliban government. ?? We have some serious questions, Maaan!
This is what happens when a bureaucracy runs the show.
And a boat load of grifting corrupt degenerates
who war monger at the expense of American lives
let them send their own into war
rat bastards
DELIVER US, OH GOD!????????????
I think what bothers me the most is when I’m (me) in a position to do something but didn’t, and when I’m back in that position to do something but don’t, I like to blame my wife, run to my Bedroom and hide my head under my pillow.
Is that wrong?
You know what’s missing from “Joe”?
The “k” between the “o” and the “e”
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We know, Mr. President. Sadly, we know.
”We plan for the inevitable, not the possible.”
The epitaph for this fake, treasonous, criminal group.
There are very few “truisms” in word history, but here is one: “You do not get to retain power if you spectacularly lose a major war, and in so doing humiliate your nation.”
And for the puppeteers who installed this hapless person, this cannot be avoided. Over the last eight months or so, this criminal cabal has not failed to avoid one single “America Last” mistake. But this one just might be the straw that broke the puppet’s back . . .
. . . and no amount of “we’ll hunt you all down as ‘political dissidents!'” will save them.
Here’s another truism Mike, “In order to be promoted eventually to the Presidency of the USA, one must do so on their back.”
I just put words in “Heels up” Harris’s mouth and that’s it, because I don’t work in government.
She’s just as much a “puppet” as the rest … and everybody knows it now.
No – she’s not going to be President, at least not for long, and neither will Pelosi.
The thing that is being “weighed in the balances and found wanting … Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” is: the entire “Swamp™” itself. The entire cabal which dared(!) to try to seize power over this entire nation by means of felony crime.
Yes, things sometimes really do come down to “the Tonto Moment”: “Whaddaya mean ‘we,’ paleface?!” ?
Paraphrasing something I heard attributed to Mark Steyn: America is a pathetic enemy but a very dangerous friend.
I always knew this was exactly the way things would turn out. Thankyou Boo Boo Bush. You routed the Taliban in 100 days in 2001. You should’ve declared victory and come home. But no, you had to nation build and bring “democracy” to a stone age people of rival tribes. Almost 20 years for what? Any country that allies with us and trusts us are fools as we will cut and run when it suits our left-wing politicians. Shameful!
None of us here will outlive the repercussions from this.
You sure ’bout that?
Yes. As “spren” suggested, we now cannot be trusted as an ally in the eyes of other fragile regions.
“…we will cut and run when it suits our left-wing politicians.”
Our own “democratic” system has been used against us to show the world that we have zero consistency.
My wife asked me what we should have done instead. Fair question. My Answer:
1. Rout the fkcu out of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. A steady diet of MOABS. Completely flatten their Terrorism exporting capabilities.
2. Leave
3. Maintenance. Use Intel from all sources; satellite, air, and human to watch for reemergence of training camps, headquarters, etc. of Terrorist groups. When found … MOAB them, or Drone rocket them. Whatever. Maintenance from the skies. Maintenance from distance. Civilian casualties? The civilians will learn to relocate themselves far from any hot targets.
Yep!!
Down time for some jihadists.
Next stop, Disney World.
Seriously though, can president Trump handle the withdraw better?
Seriously?
Useless question isn’t it?
“Mike Pompeo, who served as the director of the CIA and the secretary of state in the Trump administration, slammed President Joe Biden during an interview on Sunday after Biden tried to blame the Trump administration for the situation unfolding on the ground in Afghanistan.
“It looks like the Biden administration has just failed in its execution of its own plan,” Pompeo told Fox News host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
“This reminds me of when we have seen previous administrations allow embassies to be overrun.
It’s starting to feel that way. It also looks like there’s a bit of panic having to reinsert soldiers to get them out.
The plan should have been, much like we had, was that we would have an orderly conditions-based way to think about how to draw down our forces there.”
Pompeo then highlighted some of the foreign policy challenges that the administration has faced, including “Iranian rockets land[ing] in Israel,” handing “a pipeline back to the Russians,” and allowing “the Chinese to castigate our senior leadership in Anchorage.”
“Were I still the secretary of state with a commander in chief like President Trump, the Taliban would have understood that there were real costs to pay if there were plots against the United States of America from that place,” Pompeo said. “Qassem Soleimani learned that lesson, and the Taliban would have learned it as well.”
You do know the Trump team left an actual withdrawal plan, right? You do know the odumbdo junta rejected the plan, right?
The Trump/Pompeo plan depended upon the Taliban believing that if they transgressed from the plan severe consequences (not a severely worded letter) would follow. Trumps actions confirmed this would be true.
The Taliban/China/fill in the group of your choice, know full well that the puppet show is no threat to them.
Yup.
Yes, it would have been superbly managed by PDJT… as he managed every other thing he tackled both foreign and domestic.
How much longer will clown Joe occupy the White House?
If Saigon II and the upcomming preliminary AZ audit results are not enough, then what more is neccessary?
Military
The military did nothing but backstab Trump after they got their money from him. This will never, ever happen.
Would CTH consider creating a separate individual daily thread for everything Audit and Election Fraud related?
A thread where we can all share information related to this most important issue and perhaps find resources and links to people to connect with locally in order to fix the fraud?
MP—you might consider sending your request to the email address shown at the top of the page if you haven’t already done so.
Havent heard back yet. thx
Golden BO, The Black Princess, God-Empress
knew what a “maroon” brownmush for brains Joe was when he picked him for Veep.
How malleable, moldable, imprint-able, how USEFUL, he was.
A perfect Howard Handupme (Charlie McCarthy for those who didn’t watch “Dinosaurs”)
puppet.
He knew it when his ChiCom/Iranian KGB handlers told him to have Joe run for WH Occupant
(WhO hereafter).
And at least the CCP/PLA part of the Coaching Staff knew Operation FrankenFuchi was coming and Xiden was a shoe-in.
The CTH brain trust has astutely pointed out, China Joe is the Fall Guy with both feet on a Banana peel.
And Harry Cameltone has the unique distinction of being nearly as dumb as Xiden.
Courtesy of Liberty Daily Link
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/16/wheresbiden-trends-and-only-one-logical-explanation-remains-n427240
Sooo… who’s “in the hole” prepped to go “on Deck”
when Joe has his serendipitous Stroke?
Moosell.
Magical Girl’s Co-“Top” with “Mz Valerie” Jarrett, the Persian Princess.
Camel Girl, I suggest you use your supposedly considerable recreational talents to make sure at least one of the SS has “skin in the game” to protect your worthless hide.
You may be the only person in DC as expendable as Xiden.
Watching and listening to him robotically trying to read the teleprompter was somewhat painful to witness. After 47 straight years of reading teleprompters while speechifying in the Senate and the White House you’d think he would be able to do a much better job of it — even if his brain is a quivering mass of gelatinous goo at this point.
The Afghan people better be careful not to resist the coup orchestrated by the Taliban. As much as Joe says they should have shown a willingness to fight, now that the coup has happened he may consider anyone who challenges the new regime as insurrectionists and support whatever means the Taliban use to squash it.
He (well, actually Joe’s puppetmasters) already supported it with the oodles of our weapons and equipment left behind…
…not to mention rumored palettes of cash already being paid for hostages.
Bring Trump back!
Tony Fauci is Joe’s new National Security Advisor. In another stroke of diplomatic and strategic acumen, Joe has ordered Americans trapped in Afghanistan to “shelter in place.”
https://conservativebrief.com/gives-instructions-48567/
Protests outside the White House
https://t.me/AMP_NEWS/71889
https://t.me/AMP_NEWS/71890
Team JoeBama is just so stupid. Instead of defending what was not questioned they just should have fired pentagon brass for poor execution of a seriously flawed exit plan.
All he did was read.
The committee who wrote the thing told him what to read.
Zhao Bai Den’s incompetence is only matched by our CJCS, the angry Gen. Milley! Now would be a good time for him to resign and allow someone who isn’t a feckless coward lead our military! Mr Milley can spend some time trying to understand “white rage” and the rest of the Marxist propaganda he finds so fascinating!
Zhao Bai Den’s
Nice!
Exactly as expected. I will continue to share enlightening posts with others, but have very low expectations of actually making progress with close-minded individuals. VERY disheartening.
“Duty is a release from Care.” R. E. Lee
Tweet 4-20-2020
“The president needs to stop blaming others and do his job.” – Joe Biden
Tweet – 7:00 PM · Aug 16, 2020·
“Here’s my promise to you: If I’m elected president, I will always choose to unite rather than divide.”
“I’ll take responsibility instead of blaming others.”
“I’ll never forget that the job isn’t about me — it’s about you.”
I punched out at 4:05 because I could not stomach any more of it.
Biden hands Afghanistan to China on a silver platter.
Oh that’s just desert.
WE were the main course.
To remix the Bond Classic “You only live twice”:
“Peking Duck”-“I give you really best…Duck, Darling.”
I am sure the CCP appreciate our efforts on their behalf and will enjoy those interests payment to pay for it for YEARS to come
Only a demented fool pointing fingers would blame people so desperate they cling to the side of a cargo jet taking off.
That’s our Ruling Class.
Brutal.
Did Mumbles place any blame on Hunter’s & his laptop, you know like 10%?
So we don’t have any true borders anymore, our government has betrayed us and the leaders we have are traitors.
Can’t we declare and join a virtual country, place our property in it and declare sovernty?
Cold, cold anger against all these scum.
Hot Hot Homicidal Rage might get our Republic back.
Cold Anger— that’s been the Default for 150 years.
Got us HERE.
Inflicted on our Nation. Oh how I pray that they will pay for their evil, their incompetence, their hubris and their disgusting pridefulness, in God’s good time.
Ora et Labora. As Luther cribbed from the Benedictines.
https://twitter.com/__Scipio__/status/1415863086540640259
slightly disturbing.
Here’s another batch of illegals on the way from Afghanistan.
Not sure where they’ll be taken, but I doubt they will fly them to the southern border, who knows.
As our President Trump would say- that’s a lotta people!
Great photo.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9899249/PICTURED-640-Afghan-refugees-ran-evacuation-jet-Kabul.html
I don’t live too far from a large but largely empty military base here in the Northeast. We had a lot of C-130 activity earlier in the summer. Some this was training-related, but I suspect some of it was involved in the draw-down as well.
I suspect this base is high on the list of potential destinations, based on its history (it took in quite a number of Katrina victims back in 2005) and the specific operational missions of the military units assigned there. And while I have great sympathy for the individuals fleeing or attempting to flee from Kabul, I am not optimistic regarding the possibility of several hundred or several thousand people- traumatized by war, followers of an antagonistic religion, raised in a largely tribal culture, and completely unvetted- being resettled into a group of communities which are teetering as it is.
It is unlikely, but also completely possible, that sometime in the next few hours or days the plane in this photo will visible from the room in which I am now typing. Pretty surreal.
Oh no. That’s horrible, though I fear that the invasion from all corners is so massive that no place in the United States will remain untouched. Keep us posted…