We must be cautious in reviewing any/all media articles about the fluid situation in Afghanistan, as both Leftist and NeoCon media are framing the crisis story to fit their preferred narrative. All DC media reporting should be viewed through the prism of cynicism and skepticism.
CNN is reporting the State Dept. Narrative that Taliban have surrounded the Kabul airport and there is no safe way for Americans to reach the evacuation point. However, the Pentagon is reporting that the Taliban is “not interfering in their mission” to facilitate the evacuation of Americans, and Taliban members “are not stopping U.S. citizens with American passports” from traveling to the airport.
When we review a State Department position (DoS) on anything, it should be noted that DoS personnel are, by ideological tribe, very dramatic, tender and pearl-clutching leftists in their worldview. State Department officials are the wokeist of the international woke community. As a consequence of their alignment and role, CNN is almost identically predisposed to the dramatic flair.
CNN takes the DoS bulletin and proclaims that Americans are trapped outside the airport by the Taliban. There is no evidence of this claim being accurate. There’s a difference between “we cannot ensure safe passage”, and “your passage is unsafe.” Yes, things are sketchy and unstable, but there have been no reports of safety incidents with any Americans.
.
There is also an effort by media to parse the Biden administration into segments, and position blame according to their ideological unit inside the tribe. Watch for this to appear in the reporting, and we should not allow it.
The U.S. State Department, the U.S. Defense Department, The White House, the National Security Council and all officials in positions of leadership within the entirety of the Biden foreign policy establishment are equally to blame and all attached to this failure.
Their foreign policy ship is sinking and they were all on board.
Do not allow them to reach shore and excuse themselves from their crisis.
U.S. Military leadership was wrong in their claims, plans and risk assessments prior to the collapse. The U.S. State Department was wrong and inept in their planning to secure the Embassy mission in Kabul for all Americans. The White House failed to organize, coordinate and manage the draw-down of military action in Afghanistan. The President made the wrong decisions. Those in political position advising the President were inept.
The Biden administration and foreign policy team is weak, ineffective, ideological and functionally flawed. Everything they do is exactly the opposite of what should be done.
Just like Obama before him, the Biden foreign policy is a joke.
The Taliban…may not be the brightest bulbs on the dash, but even they can understand that butchering Americans as they try to leave is not in thire best interests. We all hate China First Joe and the stupids in Government but Americans will be outraged if fellow citizens are harmed. It wont turn out well for the Talitots.Besides there will be plenty of blood in the streets after we’re gone.
The Taliban have figured out that the O’Biden regime and if necessary the military will kill us for them.
Like President Trump said, do not underestimate the Taliban. They are smart, and they are experienced fighters.
This is not over. And just when you think it is, you’ll get a wake-up call.
We are likely to have a domestic wake up call. All too soon.
US Army looking for Soldiers to work in internment camps. I find that creepy.
https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/legal-and-law-enforcement/internment-resettlement-specialist.html
What the Taliban have known for a long time is that moving the Xiden puppet’s strings is a Muslim puppeteer who is familiar with the White House “hallways”.
it’s a given people will be killed… Americans AND those that worked with US FORCES and those that oppose the Taliban.
these are death cult practitioners…there is no fear of any military reaction..none.
and certainly not from this feckless administration.
Agree. They’ll willingly behead Americans live streamed to twitter or facebook, since they have the approval of both companies.
I agree. Right now I think they’re playing a PR game to appear reasonable to the rest of the world. But of course there’s nothing reasonable about them.
If there are no more Americans available to extract and indeed there are 5000 highly trained and experienced American Combat troops on the ground at the airport and the enemy that we have been fighting for 20 years is just outside the gates, why in the HELL don’t they do a combat assault, supported by air power in all directs and clear the approaches to the airport? just sayin’…..seems like an excellent opportunity, with the Taliban all bottled up, to exact a terrible cost on them for their audacity. As far as Americans outside the wire, I would rather die from a 1000 lb. American bomb landing on my head than have it chopped off on television. It may give some of the trapped Americans an opportunity to break for the airfield. Isn’t that what precision munitions are for? Why are they allowing this fiasco to drag on and on?
Central Command will not let US troops leave the airport.
According to one post at RedState, the UK Paras (special forces) at the Kabul airport have been leaving and going around the city picking up Brits, Irish, and any foreign national they encounter, and taking these people back to the airport to fly out. The Taliban have not stopped them from doing this (so far). It appears to annoy the US troops at the airport (who would probably like to do the same), but they don’t dare stop the Brits.
Lost wars are always the result of failed leadership.
US troops are ordered to stand down. This is bidones wateeloo.
Heh, the US is the Great Satan and I suppose the fear of our troops being specifically targeted keeps them at the airport. The other nations not so much. Just another way to humiliate us.
By both the Taliban and our high command.
Because we just don’t belong there.
The last thing we want is to engage in military operations any more.
Just get out and let them kill each other, it’s none of our business.
Understood, but leaving Americans behind, even stupid ones is simply unacceptable.
Not with this admin.
Because the moron chief of staff wont allow it. Believing anything from the msm or the bidone admin is a fools game. And I know you know.
“They’re on our right, they’re on our left, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us; they can’t get away from us this time.” – Chesty Puller
Alas there are no Chesty Pullers in leadership positions in todays military.
They’ve been or are being weeded out.
Can’t have alpha male warriors in the military.
They scare people.
Amen! Anyway we can re-animate Patton for a few days? Or maybe Curtis “fire bomb” LeMay. This whole thing is unreal
Just in case you were thinking all this was not already part of the plan
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/bidens-state-dept-halted-trump-era-crisis-response-plan/
Biden’s administration irrationally cancelled everything it could that Trump did, apparently to “erase” his administration.
It seems irrational but as you said. Part of the plan, the build back better plan.
That is what I believe I heard this AM in a clip from the Bongino show.
I’d have a lot more sympathy for an intel analyst whining about being thrown under the bus by Biden if the cowards would come clean about ANYTHING they’ve been doing for the last few years.
let em burn with the rest of the royal court.
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get worse. It now surfaces that the Blinken-Biden Cabal recently went out of their way to cancel The “Contingency and Emergency Operations Bureau” that helped 100,000 stranded Americans repatriate during the Covid Lockdown last year.
BIDEN BELONGS IN LEAVENWORTH
He should have a lot of company to join him.
Neocons looking for a pretext to continue their forever war.
They can fight it all by themselves then.
No mercy to globalist let’s all just get along and America is racist folks trapped over there…. not to say there are not a few good over there.
What common sense person would think they could improve that 3rd world sh*t hole when they themselves do not want to change.
No doubt this was all a by design. Taliban is making ANTIFA look soft for those trapped.
I read an article at Veterans Today website,from a story in Russia Today, that had alot of what is being said ,mostly attributed to the tallybahn…
BREAKING
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-bidens-state-dept-canceled-trump-crisis-evacuation-program-just-months-before-taliban-takeover/
I’m sure because it would reflect badly on the Afghans and demoralize them. /s
https://therightscoop.com/watch-general-milley-claims-he-saw-nothing-to-indicate-taliban-would-take-over-in-11-days-and-more/
Aha! He’s using the Barr Defense as pertains to vote fraud…
Thank you Sgt. Schultz.
https://therightscoop.com/not-kidding-nancy-pelosi-just-praised-bidens-pullout-from-afghanistan-says-it-was-strong-and-decisive/
Birds of a feather stick together. One mental case praising the other.
now as I understand it, the FBI is the lead agency wrt foreign terrorism.
has anyone heard the FBI providing a Taliban assessment?
how about CIA?
gangters eight ?
if you are wondering why none of this looks right, is because THIS ADMINISTRATION has failed at national security at every single level.
the question:. what HAVE they been doing with their power of not this?
What have they been doing with their power? Using it against their enemies — us.
They see the patriotic American people as their enemies and are doing everything they can do against us, even saying that most of us are domestic terror threats. They spy on us, arrest us, take us to court, mask us, and are trying their best to inject us.
The have weaponized all of the 3-letter agencies against us.
DHS just put out a bulletin two days before rhis. Any decent is terrorism. Supporting Trump, questioning the election Christains. Domestic terrorist. Refusing the vaccine.
It is a feature not a failure. This isnpart of the glowbullist plan to destroy America. We are the hitch in their giddyup for bringing in the new world order enslavement agenda.
Build back better. Babel 2.0
If they had foresight, they would not find mistakes in hindsight.
The key words were, “he has no idea”.
If there’s an idea inside that head, it’s in solitary confinement.
Even before the dementia, he was incapable of admitting to error. Right now all he can do is remember the talking points drilled into him this morning.
300,000…
I think he might believe that.
Move more quickly? By changing the May 1 deadline to September 11? Three and a half extra months is not “moving more quickly”
I’m just wondering if it could be more then what it appears to be? Could it be that this was done by design and not because they’re inept? Could this be by any chance a distraction for something worse to come? I have a bad feeling about this. Hope to be wrong.
At a bare minimum, it creates public sympathy for “refugees” and a way to flood us here as they’ve done in Europe for the past many years. But who knows and doubt we’ll necessarily ever know. The layer upon layer of subterfuge is deep and thick.
B I N G O
Absolutely. Demoncrats campagin slogan was D 2 America. Death 2 America. And build back better. Is a glowbullist slogan. Nimrod.
Our censors are overwhelmed!
Help us stamp out free thought!
Poor little SJW’s working their fingers to the bone.
“We’re testing a feature for you to report YOUR NEIGHBORS that seem UNMASKED”
And meanwhile the former President of Afghanistan sits in the UAE, in the lap of luxury, his family and friends all safe and secure, with a plane full of American dollars and a boat load of Afghani gold. We should have a SEAL team on the way to pick his sorry butt off or up.
Trump said in his interview last night that he never liked this guy.
Bagram Airbase – fatal, fatal, boneheadedly fatal error
Give up a defensible military base from which you can conduct command and control and a civilian evacuation for an indefensible “embassy and civilian airport” in the middle of Kabul?
What military authority signed off on that?
Strategically – what military authority could consider that a viable strategy?
Milley said they didn’t “have enough troops” to defend both and they prioritized the embassy
That’s military malpractice
Why’d they choose the embassy?
Appearances
They wanted to maintain the facade that Afghanistan had been placated and could now operate in civilian fashion
With a civilian airport and a functioning embassy
They could have chosen Bagram instead and moved diplomatic functions to the secure base
But that would be an undesirable “look”
Military gave up their control to keep up Dept of State appearances
I simply cannot believe the height of military malpractice
Smack my own damn head
Didn’t have enough troops? Did he consider bringing in more temporarily just to guard Bagram during the departure of US citizens and SIV Afghans?
Or did he try to get more troops, and was told by the White House (and possibly King Obama of Kalorama) that the optics would be bad and the troops already there were all he got? Right now, I’d go with the “he didn’t even ask for temporary troops for Bagram” option.
As the real president Trump said in his interview, you pull out civilians first then embasy equipment and blow up the bases and lastly troops. This was all planned. And the timing was moved up to cover for the Az audit report coming out.
To show how much worse this decision is, even today the Pentagon and State cannot figure out how many American citizens may be there. Estimate range between 5000-40,000, so they didn’t have a clue.
When you don’t have a clue about how many might need evacuation, deciding to abandon Bagram is easier.
In this CNN article, Bagram was given up around July 6th.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/world/afghanistan-american-exit-taliban-intl-cmd/index.html
“Milley said they didn’t “have enough troops” to defend both and they prioritized the embassy”
The above suggests Milley knew how fast the Taliban would advance, so someone above him ordered him out of Bagram to protect against another Benghazi.
NOW – Current situation at the north gate of #Kabul airport.
@disclosetv
Cont……
Video linked at:
https://t.me/The_Library_II/50217?single
Sundance: BOOK FACE has taken down a specific Afghanistan page…two days ago…I recommend you take a look at it and perform your amazing analysis… there now ALOT there to consider .
spoiler: it appears Facebook was ORDERED to take down WhatsApp so that afghan people could not reach out to each other and to the rest of the world for help…it looks just like mynamar…except this time to silence afghans so the us can close the book fast and leave them ball behind…
please look into this.
here is the article
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/whatsapp-shuts-down-taliban-helpline-in-kabul/
to paraphrase Gil-Scott Heron:
“The pending carnage will NOT be televised”
I sent a test to my Democrat voting friend – “It was NEVER this hard being a President Trump supporter even when the entire media complex was against him and not knowing, at the time, all the allegations against him were made up by Hillary, the F.B.I. and C.I.A.!
That is such a brilliant way to frame it!
From Dr. David Clements Telegram post 8/18.
The Professor’s Record
Forwarded from
Linda Holbrook
“Just received this prayer request:
Today sadly they just confirmed this terrible news at this time. Please pray for the 229 Christian missionaries, who have been sentenced to death tomorrow afternoon by the Afghan Islamists.
Please can pass this message on as soon as possible so that many people will be able to pray. This message was sent by JUDITH CARMONA The missionary from Chihuahua who is in Africa. The whole planet united in prayer.
If you can forward it please join us in urgent prayer, also because the radical Islamic group has just taken Quaragosh, the largest Christian city in Iraq. Where there are hundreds Christian men, women and children who are being beheaded.
Prayer cover is being requested. Please take a minute and pray for them. Pass the message to whoever you can.”
Post the link. Nothing unverified should be put on this site at this time in history.
Tell me how to copy a post that is in Telegram w/o me having an account and I will. I know how to copy links and do to support my posts here. Linking to this specific post so far doesn’t seem to work the same way, been trying. So Polly, you can just read past it “at this time in history”.
The link to all of Clement’s posts via The Professors Record is:
https://t.me/s/theprofessorsrecord
The post I referenced is contained therein. You will need to scroll thru to find.
I tried to check this. Similar stories with the same names have popped up from time to time since 2014. It may be that the internet has made this into a new story.
A blogger said in Jan 2017 he was tired of getting this same verbatim message.
https://peterpilt.org/2017/01/07/i-have-been-inundated-with-facebook-messages-asking-to-pray-for-quaragosh-in-iraq-please-make-the-messages-stop/
Thanks Tornarosa, I guess Clements got conned too. Appreciate the explanation.
Here’s his Telegram address. The post I copied is in his Aug 18 thread.
https://t.me/s/theprofessorsrecord
Well, I for one am very impressed with Biden. He (or should I say his left wing puppeteers) has torn our country and its prestige to shreds in 8 months. Wow! Even Jimmy C wasn’t that bad. That’s nearly faster than the speed of light. Nice work, Grandpa Sniffy! /s
Almost 7 months. Math is hard.
Carter was just a useful idiot. Biden is being controlled by evil forces.
It reminds me of The Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman)…”Is It Safe?”
That email autoreply from the State Department will live in infamy forever.
So will Jenny Psucky’s out of the office on vacation auto-reply.
Remember: if you know what the Marxist-induced crisis is, you will know what the Marxist outcome will be.
Here the crisis is a boiling refugee, humanitarian crisis which will serve as a predicate to massive Afghani migration to Europe and the US.
It’s as plain as day, and all per plan.
(and how neat! In the process, Taliban gets to keep our state-of-the-art weapons , geopolitics is re-arranged bigly and heavily against America, and Communist Media will luxuriate in a crisis that can only be solved by socialism).
Never trust an answer from someone who thinks you “axe” a question.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-biden-announces-hell-go-after-governors-over-refusing-mask-mandate-for-schools/
This is Biden’s priority.
Change the narrative. That’s what he (or his handlers) are desperately trying to do.
Hopefully DeSantis and Abbott will tell Biden to go pound sand.
The Taliban leadership might be behaving in a way that leads Austin and Milley to believe they think harming Americans is not a great idea. But I have no illusions that the Taliban fear a US response should hostilities escalate. Joe’s given them ALL of the cards.
They have no leverage because of their stupidity. Unless, they plan to flattened afghanistan.
Excellent you are spot on they are all responsible, Sundance.
No, we can’t believe not a word from the military “leadership”, the White House, State Department, and the deep state media. They all should be strung up to rot in plain view of the world.
That’s what they used to do to traitors, and it’s well within the law.
The Taliban understands that the Biden Administration, its handlers, owners, the Deep State, NeoCons, Globalists are all hoping that the Taliban makes a mistake and the War is back on.
IMHO, the Taliban was possibly somewhat surprised at:
(a) How easy it was to win
(b) How unprepared the American Polity was
After all, if the Americans were really leaving, they would have by now taken lots of those toys home, instead they kept them there? Why? What for?
So, from a Taliban perspective, they figured the Biden administration was very likely to extend the war indefinitely, so they attacked. What they likely didn’t expect was how easy it would be.
At this time, the last thing the Taliban wants/needs is to engage in military combat with US/UK forces.
I’m actually surprised the Taliban didn’t take that CNN woman and sent her away to the airport, behind the fence.
However, I sure hope the American Corporatist Propaganda Machine won’t instigate an event that causes the American Liberal Hearts to condone yet another War.
https://gellerreport.com/2021/08/taliban-declares-girls-above-15-to-be-gifted-to-fighters-as-wives.html/
For one, the msm is the enemy of the people. Any reports on anything taliban from them I take with a shovel of salt. I am not going to excuse the taliban for crimes. But until we can get real reporting, Im not buying anything they are selling. Period.
This all smacks of a hand over to china and as a excuse of getting rid of the big guy and installing the kamalhoe. Which aint going work. In the meantime china is making its move on Tiawan. We have close friends there. Praying!
I guess my question is How defensible is the Kabul Airport? If the Taliban and or al queda can almost instantly ruin the one runway and overwhelm our troops, aren’t we 100% trusting and totally relying on the kindness of terrorists to not slaughter our 4-5,000 troops?
This is bathhouse barry phase2, remember this godless beast promised he wasn’t done transforming America upon exit, and he luvs the muslim brotherhood…
The Afghanistan debacle is the icing on Barry’s birthday cake.
Tell the Taliban to remove the checkpoints by a time certain within the next few hours or we will bomb it to dust.
And there goes the only runway, at the only airport, in Kabul.
There is no other way out.
The Taliban just need to destroy or otherwise make a small portion if the runway unusable for the large transport aircraft being used.
No one leaves Kabul.
I know. Make it clear to them, touch anything or interfere and “we will do things to you that have never been done before.”
That will be one of many exchanges. They can ask for anything they want and get it.
All day today, last night, yesterday, our family has been fighting ccp virus and in rare moments, I have been reading about the tragedy of the lives being harmed and ended in Afghanistan.
Only my belief that tears, in this case, don’t fix anything has prevented them from falling. The photos in the Daily Fail of tarred faces and the headlines of torture of children, women again running for hajibs just as they did when all the other countries fell to the Taliban for decades has wrenched my heart as I care for my family who are suffering bc hcq, ivermectin, etc are not allowed due to politics.
I keep drawing parallels between my family and the Afghanis and Americans left to come home. We aren’t completely better, but looks like we should make it without hospital.
OOOur household’s misery should end soon.
However. Watching this travesty, struggling with illness unnecessarily, watching my child seek education without forced jabs, I find myself stifling sobs; the powerful who are in charge of our country have no morality. They are sociopathic, power hungry, greedy bturds with habsolutely no sense of humanity or the hell in which I hope that they spend eternity. Because, I don’t see them treating us any better than they are treating our Americans in Kabul or the abandoned Americans in BBenghazi. What fresh disaster will they throw us into next? How can it protect my family????
We need Wolf Blitzer reporting on site with his blue helmet and flak vest. I wonder if they have CNN playing on the TVs in the Kabul airport?
The fake president continues to damage our country greatly. His fake administration are all a disgrace and incompetent. Dear God help us. Please deliver us from this evil.
LOCK HIM UP
“…kabul airport surrounded by taliban…” bla bla bla… when has this ever stopped us from evacuating Americans? Biden threatens Americans for having a dissenting opinion (nukes and F15s)… then turns around and lets Americans and allies be slaughtered while his military claims their helpless to evacuate our people. WHICH IS IT?? Are you the Dreaded Federal Government or are you hapless, helpless, traitorous schmucks??!!
My anger is so red hot right now. The Biden Administration AND CONGRESS truly are Enemies of The People. Their priorities are so backwards. I could rage on, but I should stop.
Don’t send your sons and daughters to die for nothing.
If The Taliban let US citizens out, bank on panicked Biden – in reality Obama – operatives giving in to their every demand behind the scenes, including but not limited to a huge payoff far exceeding the billions Obama handed to Iran’s mullahs. They’ll classify it all to hide it.
It’s kind of dumb to speculate that this will turn out OK. Safe passage to the Taliban means cash – end of story. It’s what they have always done. They block a road and demand cash for passage, at the point of a gun. This is older than the hills in Afghanistan.
Expect the Taliban to reap like 500 billion to get most Americans through, not all mind you. And as Obozo did with Iran, the Xiden government will pay, FROM ALL OF OUR PERSONAL POCKETS to the Taliban. The government makes no money except for OUR TAXES…
“However, the Pentagon is reporting that the Taliban is “not interfering in their mission””
Milley, in this article pushing back against the IC takes a shot at State:
https://news.yahoo.com/gen-milley-denies-intel-warned-193816299.html
“Milley said that 5,000 people have already been evacuated, with the military currently operating 20 sorties with C-17 aircraft every 24 hours. The general said that the military will have the capability of increasing the pace of evacuations when the State Department “makes evacuees available.””
The Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau was created during the Trump Administration by Secretary Pompeo. The CCR was created for overseeing the protection and evacuation of American citizens stationed overseas in the case of an emergency.
The Biden State Department canceled the CCR just as the Taliban was taking over Afghanistan. The memo was signed by Deputy Secretary Brian McKeon.
Is the illegitimate Biden administration incompetent or treasonous? The thousands of US citizens left behind enemy lines are now live hostage bait.
The thing to keep in mind about the current situation is that the last time Biden held elected office, he, Obama, Clinton, and McCain launched an illegal war in Libya while deposing a friendly Egyptian ally leading to the total collapse into anarchy of most of North Africa…and the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since WW2…
…so I’m sure they’re looking at all the Afghanistan stuff through the lens of “Well, that seems about right.”
Lara Logan,everything going along as planed.was on Tucker tonight for a short segment.some blockbuster stuff.anyone have Fox nation?https://www.foxnews.com/media/lara-logan-on-afghan-crisis-the-us-wants-this-outcome-whoever-is-pulling-the-strings-can-change-it
Meanwhile –
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1428113117947564051
the new regime.. know them by their ruse..
the collapse is coordinated and intentional..
and very visual.. they want America to see it..
so it has a purpose.. to stage their next move..
Every time a state department official appears on camera,they have a deer-in-the-headlights-of-an-18-wheeler-doing-80-look.They are frightened,confused,and most of all worried that their air of superiority has been permanently deflated.They shouldn’t worry,most of us never thought they were very bright.Biden’s spokespeople look down and try to avoid eye contact,like liars usually do.Our expensive military still has good people in the field,but the leadership is lost when the talk turns to real,live military action rather than political correctness and tolerance of those trying to kill us.The ’emperor’ himself is finely dressed in new clothes of the type his son wears in his many erotic videos.And said ’emperor’ wouldn’t know the difference anyway.Some would say grab the popcorn,but this show is going on too long,and veering into territory way too dangerous for our country and the world for that.If you’re worried about where we go from here,join the crowd.It will take all of us to recover.And it hasn’t even been a year.
Every time I see Clarissa all I can see is a female version of Herman Munster.
Where are all the Caucasian Americans? Just asking for a friend.
Puts entire USA in grave danger.
Overrules Supreme Court.
Rules by threats.
Abandons Americans to those responsible for 9/11.
Abandons allies.
Will be known forever as treasonous coward with a name that rivals Hitler, & Stalin. Another name that is stained forever: Biden.
Biden and his puppet masters have arranged a deal with the Taliban, money for for power and advanced weaponry, same as Iran. They wouldnt risk this amount of political heat unless there was a big something in it for them.