The crisis unfolding at the international airport in Kabul has reached horrific levels. Afghan nationals are swarming the airport in an effort to escape the onslaught, as Taliban fighters go door-to-door looking for people who have assisted the United States during the 20 year war.
At least seven people were killed at the airport, many fell to their deaths as they clung to the outside of U.S. C-17 transport planes. Horrific videos have surfaced showing desperation amid the humanitarian crisis. The AFP is reporting:
KABUL – […] Residents raced to Kabul’s international airport, where the “civilian side” was closed until further notice, according to Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority. The U.S. military and other Western forces continued to organize evacuations.
Videos circulating on social media showed hundreds of people running across the tarmac as U.S. troops fired warning shots in the air. One showed a crowd pushing and shoving its way up a staircase, trying to board a plane, with some people hanging off the railings.
In another video, hundreds of people could be seen running alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moved down a runway. Some clung to the side of the jet just before takeoff. Another video showed several falling through the air as the airplane rapidly gained altitude over the city.
Senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing operation, told The Associated Press that the chaos left seven dead, including several who fell from the flight. (read more)
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Absolute scenes at Kabul airport https://t.co/XsrWBv7zhY
— Campbell MacDiarmid (@CampbellMacD) August 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1427122975971561475
Kabul Airport https://t.co/4ZsM67uOP2
— Chance 🤺 Giardiniere 🍊 🔞 (@ChanceGardiner) August 16, 2021
Skilled shot.
Again, you can hear the laughing in the video while people are being shot.
It reminds me of this scene in Danang. Vietnam in 1974 where this reporter said one person waves as she fell off…with his comment at 2:20
Not only is this situation horrific for the Afghan people, it is totally untenable for our soldiers who are being asked to deal with it. Biden should be impeached.. and more.
Milley should be the FINAL CASUALTY of Afghanistan. If you cannot handle a freaking withdrawal, you cannot handle the entire US Military!
There are many reasons Milley should go but this isn’t one of them. The Joint Chiefs don’t have any operational command of any military units. It is essentially a REMF retirement position for 4 stars.
If not Milley, WHO?
Milley for starts.
They may not have any direct operational command of any military units, but they have a hell of a lot of influence with other Generals who do and whoever is President and is stupid enough to listen to them..
That POS should be on the ground in Kabul…..should be the last American out.
He will pack his rainbow underwear I am sure. Pink too. Maybe purple as well, to match his hair.
he should be shot
He should be impeached, yes, but the cabal behind him is the big problem. The ones that arranged for this regime to be installed.
Biden has an estimated IQ of 72. The Generals that he listen to, should be hung.
DIEN BIEN PHU!!!
Good thing Biden is in charge of the war on covid.
Huh. Now that is a sobering statement!
DD
I had the same thot’s. And more. 😉
“President Biden”
usurper Biden
Too little, too late
By rushing in more US troops *resident Biden is laying the groundwork for Black Hawk Down Redux. Stupid friggin braindead leftards that they are, he and Blinken and the rest of the cabal of Democrat morons and has-beens.
F Troop on steroids.
Where are they going to land?
I guess at this point, we have to apply the “no man left behind” doctrine and do whatever is necessary to get our people out.
The problem is that they should never have been left behind to begin with.
Exactly. It almost feels … deliberate.
As if someone needed casualties for their narrative.
And hostages, lots of hostages . . .
Did the planners of J6 run this op?
Still no word from the Resident.
3:45pm supposedly
The beginning of another Historic genocide.
Fake news can’t help the swamp.
This is global.
The world is watching, they can’t bring in Christine Blasley Ford, or Stormi Daniels or Vindman or Fiona Hills, or the woke Capitol Police to put on a circus show for the sheep. Not this time.
This time, the world will be watching in real time before fake news can spin it.
They can’t control the narrative, they can’t control what’s seen and what isn’t. No backroom planing narrative.
Unless they shut down ALL social media.
DIEN BIEN PHU
Or false flag something.
Friday, Milley moved up the terror threat to the homeland in advance of 9/11 anniversary.
Poor children in the war zone. I can’t imagine what is like to be orphaned and be left in the hands of the Taliban. They will be slaves forever.
Especially the girls/women in the 14 – 40 year old age range. Can anyone say harems for the Taliban
You are projecting your own cultural overlay.
The Taliban are the Afghan culture. Why do you think the culture is medieval across the whole area and has not changed for hundreds of years?
They already have children sold as brides and servants by their own parents as a normal part of their culture.
The culture is harem oriented and women and children are already property even within their families. It is not any different.
You sound an empathic person. But stop bleeding heart about this. This stuff is happening all over the world in may countries as we speak and unless it is on the TV I don’t hear much about it.
Its just regurgitating what the media is placing in the mind as the immediate narrative.
You make a very good point “tristan”.
It is very difficult for people to understand that the whole world does not have our own Judeo/Christian outlook on life.
It is very hard to understand that females born into this world can and will accept “their lot in life” and no know or even understand that things can or should be better for them or different.
Yes things should be different and yes it is awful but like you say to empathize does very little to solve problems.
Our culture is not theirs.
I do not know how women can stand living like that but they do and they have for about four thousand years.
And billions and billions of them have done so even though in the last 100 years or so many Christian countries have tried over and over and over to convert or liberate them from their oppression.
Yet on it goes and misplaced empathy can cause more misery and brutality in the long run.
Like what is happening in Afghanistan right now, today as we write our comments and others read them.
We are leaving a hot mess in the middle east because of many mis-placed ideas and emotions and a lot of politicians have taken advantage of these.
I give it about 2 months before some one has convinced, or has done a pretty good job at convincing, the brain dead of America that ” we need to do something to help the poor suffering Afgani’s”.
Because of course it is all our fault and the women and children of Afghanistan are suffering SO much.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/some-people-wont-get-back-british-defense-minister-chokes-up-over-taliban-takeover
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-orders-more-troops-into-kabul-after-airport-overrun-with-afghans-evac-flights-suspended
7,000 troops now
Saw one account where they screened a resident getting groceries for a gun. Predictable.
It sounds like Joe may have misjudged the taliban as the “jayvee team.”
Biden is the waterboy for the JV team.
The Taliban were literally using WhatsApp and other social media to appeal to the Afghan people right under the noses of our military. That’s why barely a shot was fired and the 300,000 “trained” troops did nothing.
“The Taliban are thus free, and have been free for a number of years, to take their fight not to American soldiers (where they always lose) but directly to the hearts and minds of the Afghan people, all using free-to-use American internet infrastructure like Facebook and Twitter (where they have now won).”
Watch from 18:45 onward. Intel personnel on the ground in Afghanistan in 2010 told him the place would fall apart the minute the US left.
Ep. 1585 Biden Must Resign Now
https://rumble.com/vl8n5w-ep.-1585-biden-must-resign-now-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Given the history and the caliber of the Afgans we were training, it seems that it shouldn’t take an intel person to know this.
EX-actly!
Mostly their end greater loyalty to fellow Muslims, including the Taliban, rather than to invading dirty infidels … that would be us.
I think anyone with critical thinking skills would know this would happen.
Pray for those who helped the US. They have been abandoned just as US patriots have. This is not their fault. I’m so sad for them who will be killed and tortured.
God. Where is the justice?
Please intercede for them!
DD
The Swamp abandons EVERYONE, foreign and domestic.
So true.
even each other – when one’s usefulness is up
Good point and needs to be remembered.
It also would have been nice if the Afghan army stayed behind to help their country men out.
To help out the Afghan civilians who helped us help their country.
Instead they ran for the hills as fast as they could at the first sign of trouble and now we, America, will be blamed for EVERYTHING.
If we had the kind of media back in the 1940s that we have now America would have been blamed for Hitler’s death camps and his destruction of Europe.
There are Americans left behind as well
Yes, but they will be flying Afghan refugees to my state, Wisconsn.
Very true “mac”.
And they will not bother to make sure it is the Mohammed that worked FOR the Us and not the Mohammed that worked for the Taliban.
And he will be allowed to bring his four wives and 21 children with him.
For the sacklers, it was a smashing success. Unfortunately for them, there’s a literal mountain of chinese fentanyl in the US now. Just waiting for the coordinated command to dump it in several municipal water supplies in the northeast.
i wouldn’t doubt it
I would believe almost anything now Htos1av.
Poor little kids. Their parents will be slaughtered and they will be slaves forever.
The comments under that are blaming Trump and the GOP for the withdrawal
Wait until Joe speaks in an hour. The over/under on how many times he says “Trump” or “inherited” is 10 and I bet on the over!
the [paid] commenters …
Their parents will be killed and the children will be raised to fight for the Taliban.
He has to resign.
This from Redstate:https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/15/it-sure-looks-like-joe-biden-sabotaged-the-afghan-air-force-n426935
Always thought they might keep him as long as it was useful, and then throw it over to the VP and put all the changes from the first part of the administration on his shoulders and act like everything is different now and buy more time
They never consider the consequences for their decisions.
Or some do and are fine with it per their partisan agendas
What about the fate of all the new US military people they are flying into Afghanistan? 7000 of our finest.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/us-relocate-30000-afghanistan-refugees
Many of whom might be Taliban.
It’s all going according to Obama’s plan.
His main goal was and is to destroy America. This is part of the demoralization process. They want us humiliated, defeated.
Who in their right mind would join the military now knowing they will be sent to die for nothing and make things 1000 x worse?
Obama and his Saul Alinksy crowd are loving this. 100% sure.
He went after family, education, our Flag, our American pride, National Anthem, churches, liberty, now he destroyed our military’s image.
This is another piece of the puzzle.
Looks like the late 1970s all over again, with many of the backstops removed since then
And then came Reagan.
It’s a chapter, but not the final one.
You do know they are bringing in thousands of “refugees” from Afghanistan to augment the illegals they’ve already brought in from South America, don’t you? The federal government is the enemy of the American citizens.
Notice they didn’t welcome the South African farmers and their families as refugees, who were being murdered.
Changing the way history is taught in school does not prevent history from repeating itself.
Try to explain that to a progressive, marxist nitwit.
Looks like a scene from World War Z.
Almost all military service aged males.
Where are the women, children, elderly?
Do these “men” have no wives, children, parents?
I guess the Muslim men don’t protect their women, children or elderly, just care for themselves.
No wonder no one fights…if all one cares about is themselves…what is there left to fight for?
Yes, I noticed that too. Attempt to flee – leave your women & children behind ☹️
Women and children are Chattel under Islam.
The same profile at our Southern Border!
Guess connecting the dots is an advanced course for our intelligence community.
What I’d like to see if for someone to track the money sent to Afghanistan and how much of that American taxpayer funded money ended up circling back to DC and into the pockets of the so called high integrity people?
Follow the money and the American people will demand justice and possible crimes against humanity for participating in these money laundering schemes.
Nailed it! You have inadvertantly defined the meaning of the ‘Psaki circle back’….
I am heartsick for the good hearted Afghani’s who helped us…
This is horrible but I don’t get why its happening. I mean troops have been leaving. It wasn’t a secret. I get that this came more quickly than anticipated but why the lack of foresight?
Our top brass was more concerned with domestic “white rage”.
And Pride Parties.
The progressives wanted this to happen.
Obama & Biden we’re able to figure out how to fly a plane load of cash into Iran without anyone knowing but can’t seem figure out how to get our people out of a hell hole of a Country!
Obama and Biden don’t fly. So military top brass made it happen for them. Think about that for a moment.
So are all the planes left at the airport going to be used by Joebama to celebrate 9/11?
I have no military experience, but I could have (with the advice of military) figure out how to get people out, destroy equipment to be left behind, provide some support for our very imperfect Afgan ally. I mean WTF No Air Support.
Joe and Kamala must resign now.
Only Joe will. Not yet, but building up to that. Need a few more manufactured crises to materialize first before they blame it on mental illness.
4/26/21 Kamala Harris says she had key role in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal decisionThe vice president confirmed she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision to move forward with withdrawing U.S. troops.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/25/harris-afghanistan-biden-withdrawal-decision-484581?
Unfortunately that would make Pelosi President.
there is no carrier group in close…
there ARE air squadrons located in the region however. with refuelers.
in Guam there are 2 b2’s, which takes about 12 hour roll out and be effective on targets.
I don’t know the count in Hawaii or Japan, but my sense is that operational readiness has deteriorated since malarkey got into office.
there are lots of questions for sure…
the lack of air support is just one of many.
if I am to believe this administration, the deals struck come with a commitment that as long as us troops and us citizens are not harmed, there will be no kinetic actions from the US…even if this means afghan citizens are slaughtered.
it seems the only explanation for a complete lack of force protection and enhanced green zone strategy around the major assets and airports.
I think the calculus would be the afghan army, 300k strong as Biden imagined it, would provide force protection while is forces demobilized.
that’s shockingly stupid to out such a large critical security responsibility on the afghan army, given over that last 90 days it was clear the Taliban was on the move and not just sword rattling with no push back from the Afghan army!
cluster duck.
fubar
whisky tango foxhump
And that decrepit old boob occupying the White House (no, not Arthur Roberts) is getting ready to (finally) address the country (in the middle of the afternoon) … will doubtless blame his mess on Trump. He’s left to blaming Trump for everything he’s screwed up on top of begging other countries to bale him out of the messes he keeps creating (even trying to get Obama to help him out on his latest mess). Guess he didn’t expect that being President meant doing actual work.
Most likely will be the body double. You know the semi-coherent one.
The one with blue eyes or the one with black eyes?
Joe BIden: Afghanistyan ?
What’s an Afghanistan ?
This horrific event will be studied for years. I pray for the safety of our troops and innocents caught up in the incompetence of this administration.
This is NOT the Saigon Embassy. This is Dien Bien Phu!
I had to look it up. Good analogy.
Heartbreaking. What a ruthless, heartless, evil government to allow this to happen. You can’t tell me the US Federal government didn’t know about this. People have been on Steve Bannon’s War Room all morning talking about hearing “rumors” over there for several weeks.
Perhaps if the DOJ/FBI/CIA and other IC agencies weren’t so intent on rounding up people who disagree with them politically and ideologically, they might have been able to plan for a successful withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Given the level of idiocy I am seeing, I have to conclude that they do not care about our country. They are intent on destroying our country and us. They hate us.
Small silver lining to unspeakable scenes? Biden’s rumored national lockdown address has to be a thing of the past. He has lost all moral suasion.
I can’t imagine they care all that much. They’ll go ahead and ram it down our throats. It’s not like public sentiment matters. Voting stopped mattering after 2020.
Dear God
Its all Trump’s fault. (sarc)
Horrific.
In that video of people clinging on to the plane taking off, there’s one guy who’s sitting there, texting. But he’s masked, so he’s probably safe from Covid.
Hard times ahead, take care of your families and prepare accordingly.
Will we see hyperinflation?
Will the world still trust the US dollar?
I’m sure the 9/11 ME Thugs have built a network of sleeper cells over the past 20 years just waiting for a guy like Biden to strip into the Whitehouse.
George W Bush should have wrapped this up 15 years ago!
George “Religion of Peace[TM]” Bush?
He really screwed the pooch in the war against jihad, by lying about the enemy.
Write it on a rock or tattoo it on your arm. The shi* is going to hit the fan here because we have kicked the can down the road hoping someone else would act on our behalf to preserve liberty.
We are not voting our way out of this either.
I can’t even…
Any physician involved in this crap needs to be jailed.
I could have done without that photo!
This should not have been tweeted out while he/she/it/whatever is still there. WTF was he thinking?
Not a good place for trannies.
I bet this person voted for Biden.
self-deleted so nobody got their feelings hurt…
FTA “UPDATED at 3:30PM Pacific Time Sunday August 15 (U.S.) One of her colleagues communicating with Thomas received a text from her stating that elements of the United States Army’s 82nd Airborne Division had arrived at the Camp Alvarado diplomatic support facility;
“Just talked to her again for several minutes. The 82nd has taken control of her compound and there’s a clear route from there to the flight line now. That the place is looking like a refugee camp with the amount of displaced coalition personnel and there’s no aircraft coming in to evacuate people yet.””
So she’s safe. Wonder if she got the free tranny operation from the army yet? If not after experiencing that abandonment trauma that will probably be a priority for General Millie! General Millie has his “woke” priorities!
Joe Beijing is now taking national security advise from Tony Fauci. Joe has ordered Americans stranded in Afghanistan to “shelter in place.”
https://conservativebrief.com/gives-instructions-48567/
Some of these pics look like the invasion of our Southern Border.
Send in our soldiers for slaughter.
Bring all their Muslims to our land for more revolution here.
Take our minds off vaccine mandates & election steal, Infrastructure hoax.
Well executed by Deep State. Republicans & Democrates.
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Some of us here have soldiers heading to Afghanistan as we speak.
Like Peter, Paul and Mary sang back in the ’60’s, “That’s what you get for loving me…”
Language warning— but George Carlin encapsulated this moment.
I think that our excursion there was never going to end well. We need to get back to kicking ass and leaving, and if necessary, returning to kick more ass. Let the natives figure out what they want. Our country is an absolute mess and we ought not have the hubris to impose our unholy mess onto other nations.
Just my two cents.
With WW II rules of engagement, dammit.
You know the important things.
This can all circle back on Ryan and McConnell for handing the keys back to Obama through their fake conservative do nothing governance!
The republican party is a dangerous facade!
Remember back in the day when we called the terrorist “cowards”?
Yet you have Kackling Kamala tweeting get vaccinated. She can get bent. This is the legacy of liberals, yet no one seems to care.
I respectfully disagree. I think millions of people care, but their voices are drowned out by those who censor them, demonize them, trivialize them, or engage in propaganda to drive the narrative. Maybe all of the above.
This is the legacy of politicians.
No they don’t. That’s the dirty little secret that offends a lot of modern sensibilities. Most people aren’t independent actors; they are just lower hierarchical animals that think and do what the priesthood tell them.
This is the problem with the Right ceding all cultural hegemony to the Left.
This is all going according to plan. The hand puppet president was chosen by the oligarchs to bring down America.
(383) For Lovin’ Me (2004 Remaster) – YouTube
The people standing atop the plane… do they think it’s like their trains with people on top and hanging off the sides?
I get the desperation and I feel for these poor people, but these scenes speak to the mentality we are dealing with in the ME. These people can’t understand that clinging to an airplane while it takes off is almost certain death or that blocking the runway can only slow down the evacuation effort or that more people will escape if everybody cooperates. The level of ignorance is astounding. No wonder the region is in the state it is.
Not to mention the people that were laughing while filming one of those videos.
THIS! Want to understand what makes a third-world country a third-world country? joeknuckles has described it.
Like “OwenMarkelstein” posts below, this is what makes a third world county a third world county.
Also notice that most running away are males leaving their females to the brutal Taliban.
A lot of posters have expressed sympathy for the females and children in Afghanistan but take notice of the lack of protection that the Afgani males are offering to their own families.
And also remember that the Afgani military which we spent almost 2 trillion dollars training and outfitting were some of the first to cut and run and leave the Afghan civilians high and dry.
This is what makes a third world country a third world county.
I have no words other than what a cluster f Joe!
The generals know our withdrawal would have been more orderly in the winter.
The question in my mind in why now?
Perhaps the answer lies with those that benefit from this, namely China and Iran.
Why now? Because JoeBama wanted to spike the football come 9/11 20th anniversary. Instead he fumbled, the Taliban picked it up and ran for a TD.
JoeBiden administration had no plan, much less a backup plan. Now we will be taking in refugees for at least the next two years. On second thought, maybe that was their plan.
“Why now? Because JoeBama wanted to spike the football come 9/11 20th anniversary. Instead he fumbled, the Taliban picked it up and ran for a TD.”
That’s a pretty good analogy. Grandstanding on 9/11 is exactly what they wanted to do.
When Bagdad Bob gives his address in a couple hours, he will either assure us that all is well, blame his Intel or blame President Trump. I hope to hear from the real POTUS either before or immediately after.
The 3:45 appearance is not intended to be an address…merely a ‘proof of life’ video.