The message from one of the leading democrats in the House to stranded Americans in Afghanistan is: “you’re on your own.” John Garamendi (CA) told CNN the U.S. military should not try to rescue stranded Americans outside the Kabul airport. This rings a familiar Benghazi bell…
This is a remarkable statement considering Garamendi is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and one of the key people who supported, funded and authorized the current mess in Kabul. While his outlook is representative of the ideology of leftists, it is still quite alarming to see a leading U.S. political figure telling desperate Americans there will be no help coming.
Keep in mind the British forces are conducting search and rescue missions to extract their stranded citizens. Quite a contrast. Watch this statement from John Garamendi:
This sounds like a massive hostage situation now….
This sounds like a massive hostage situation now….
By design, perhaps?
NAILED IT!
Don’t forget – 10% to the big guy.
At this point, what difference does it make?
10% is 10%.
Our fellow Citizens trapped over there will be captured and thrown into squalid clandestine prison cells or smuggled over the Paki border to the lawless Warizistan clan farms . At their leisure, and as part of leverage, we can expect them to be tortured, raped, or beheaded on video. Pakistani ISI intel goons will torture the contractors for valuable intel then bury them in ditches. My bet is that they will behead several on 9/11 to boast about islam’s greatness over kafirs and to smear it in our faces. And the WH will capitulate to all their demands. (Saudi Arabia will also still have ministers who launder cash through them).
Wait, isn’t that what we did to them back when we were “winning” this stupid war?
The Americans left there are mostly conservatives and Trump supporters, and would be labeled extremist domestic terrorists by the Xiden administration once returned home, so democrats prefer they remain there and die there
How do you know that? I would have that they were mostly government contractors, over there working on behalf of the US government.
Some perhaps.
For most, it is the $$$.
The MIC cares not what Party you belong to.
Many of these corporations partook in undermining PDJTs Presidency..
What better way to funnel billions in cash to the Taliban?
…and humiliate the U.S.
How does one’s significant other live with this BS? How can these bas***ds go to sleep at night? This guy needs to look death square in the face and speak like that! My country has gone beyond “Going to Hell” and needs a severe wake up call!
I would highlight, bold-type and underline SEVERE! I hope most folks on CTH have or are getting geared up because as you wrote we are beyond the Going to Hell stage and moving on to Global Unity, Going to Hell’s earthly
counterpart.
Don’t worry though…..that mask will save ya…….;-( Sarc off.
The Taiwan lrovise a pretty good model for how to take back one’s country.
By design? May very well be.
But there is also an element of hubris in the glib irritated retorts. Biden took a blow, and believes he can “walk off” the pain. This isn’t a corked muscle, its a fracture. And it is going to radiate far beyond Joe Biden.
When actual names and faces start filtering through soon, it will all become very real for most ordinary people. The families of the abandoned also aren’t going to stay quiet forever.
The ugly optics, will be drawn out, unpredictable, and hard to control , even for the Pravda Industrial Complex,
Sure, optics will be horrible. That is by design as well. How, why you say?
Where is Kamala Harris? She’s literally on the other side of the planet.
Why is she there? To escape those optics. And when the optics become too unbearable and a head must be taken, well…….
Groppin’ Joe was set up to take the fall. He will get 25th and that’ll be that.
Oh, and the hostages? I would imagine a deal will be cut at some point and most of them will be brought home. My guess is Kamala is being set up to broker the deal.
She is going to Singapore and Vietnam for EXTREMELY IMPORTANT tours of restaurants and make trade deal for soy beans and sorghum!!! Talk about Brinkswomanship!!! She is EMPOWERED!
This was planned by the Bidum administration! This debacle is Benghazi times 100. I even read Team Biden shut down Bagram military airport in July. Under the Trump “pullout” plan Bagram would have been the last to evacuate & close. May God help all the stranded people there.
I have thought all week that this fiasco was planned. My thought was that it is not possible for them to screwed up this bad unless they were intending to do so.
“it is not possible for them to screwed up this bad”
Oh ye of little faith.
A cousin of mine married into that family. (I crashed the wedding in place of my mother). The whole family is whacked.
Sounds like some of them should be whacked.
You took the words right out of my keyboard…….
The issue here starts with “who are the American citizens stuck in Afghanistan?”
They are NGO workers (mostly), State Department contractors, USAID contractors, & (very unlikely) DoD private military contractors.
The private military contractors had better escape plans because of the collapse of the Iraqi Army under Obama. You can bet that the PMC workers were in the Afghan Army columns & helicopters bugging out ahead of the Taliban.
For everyone else, it was “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” because everyone’s Afghan escape plans — US private military contractors excepted — were keyed to a slow collapse. Hell, DoD Spokes critters said it would take 90-days for Afghanistan to fall three days before Kabul fell!
The issue for the Democratic Party going forward are the tens of thousands of Americans behind Taliban lines who will be hostages for the next several years. Those people have hundreds of thousands of relatives who will be talking on local TV until they return.
The hostage crisis from people in the first three groups this will go on from months. These people are on their own.
And the ironic thing here is that the NGO workers are generally from the Democratic Party’s donor class. The Corporate Media’s Trumpian style freeze out of Biden Administration supporting spokesmen is a direct result of that fact.
In many cases, likely the walking dead, with a half life measured in weeks or months.
We’ll see. The Taliban has been pretty savvy and light-handed so far.
Because the Pakistani ISI has advised them to do so.
It is good advice.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/08/19/afghan-refugee-numbers-exploding/
The US is now mocked and ridiculed across the globe, which is heartbreaking, given the generosity of it’s citizens. Even worse is how demoralized the troops must feel with the events of the past week. I pray for those tasked with protecting us and our interests. Their job is being made much more difficult because of the politicization of what should be apolitical.
That’s not even the worse part, US betrayed our allies. Good luck to us getting anyone to support us on the next nation invasion/ rebuilding adventure.
Afghanis who trusted us are now in line to get slaughtered.
And just like that…a whole new generation of people who may one day look to take their revenge against the US or US citizens.
Making the world LESS safe…one country at a time
“That’s not even the worse part, US betrayed our allies. Good luck to us getting anyone to support us on the next nation invasion/ rebuilding adventure.”
kleen, I respectfully and delightedly disagree. That is the best part!!!!
I was HAPPY to hear that Ukranians and Georgians were “left behind.” Hopefully they will learn their lesson and politely ask us to GTFO of their countries, post haste please.
And, the Taliban seems to recognize that discretion is the better part of valor, and valor is important to them. I won’t be surprised if the decent ones are spared (and the ones who committed unconscionable attrocities deserve their fate.)
https://eurasianet.org/georgia-warily-watching-afghanistans-collapse
But we are completely superior to the rest of the world because we are “Woke”. We can “cancel” therest of the world, because we can tear down statues, remove a 50-ton racist rock from Wisconsin, burn down businesses, and express our support for diversity by stealing big-screen TVs.
And don’t forget the generals at the pentagon who wear skirts and lipstick even though they were born male.
Not according to the “Woke” AMA.
quite frankly I don’t give a nickel as to what the world thinks of us. Few treated President Trump with the respect he deserved so I’m not the least bit worried about their opinions. Its good their giving a much deserved spanking to Biden but, in a few weeks, they’ll be praising him again.
They were dying to see Trump out… they wanted to see a world with a weak America… they’ve got it! Now, enjoy!
Yeah, except they see that Americans somehow accept a drooling manequin as their president. Seems like a pretty good time to take advantage of us.
I am glad that this is happening. Nothing like hitting rock bottom to find out where you are. All these World leaders who didn’t like President Trump’s style are now seeing/feeling what instability and weakness works for them.
Continuing to double down on stupidity never ends well.
We sailed past stupidity ages ago and have moved onto intentional malice and evil. Whole different ballgame.
May the gentleman from CA rot in hell.
Born Free: He already has. We’re seeing the remains.
People like him thrive in hell.
Is any attempt to pull Americans out of Kabul at this point going to turn into a Benghazi v2.0? Dems sure are practiced in the art of leaving innocent souls to die.
The Late Sec. of Defense Les Aspin must be smiling that he won’t be stuck as the worst for his dilly-dallying at Mogudishu when he could have called in a lot more reinforcements to rescue the Troops from that poorly-planned mission in 1992.
Okay so… what will be the US Taxpayer resources given to the Taliban under cover of darkness .. what are we being ripped off for this time..
A whole lot less than what we’ve been ripped off for over the past 20 years. We’ve spent $2,400,000,000,000 on this fiasco, in a country of 38 million. That’s $63,517 per capita. A little more bloodletting and then to be out of their hair . . . that’s the best investment that we could make in Afghanistan.
An Inspector General looked at spending in Afghanistan and found 30% of it was waste, fraud, or lost. Projecting out, that’s $800,000,000,000 altogether. That’s $20K per person in country, lost, wasted, or stolen.
If we pay $10M each for 10,000 people, that’s just another day at the office. And also about what we just confiscated from the Afghani government from American banks.
Come on man. Think outside the box. Tell the Bidung administration that the stranded persons are from Guatemala.
Callous disdain for American citizens is hallmark of the left whether it be stranded Americans or forced experimental vaccinations. The common sentiment in both is an actual loathing for anything associated with America.
… to them the people are cattle…
Collateral damage.
I was working for an international company in the 70s. We never felt safe under Carter, knew that we could be locked up in a foreign s*it hole for dead, and our country would abandon us. So happy when Reagan was elected… Twice.
With the Taliban and innocents all sown together by now it is too late to rescue anybody without a lot or all of the innocent being killed. We are watching a train in the process of derailing and no way to stop it. Welcome to the front row seat to watch the ensuing carnage. A normally cogent person and/or military would have prevented this type of disaster.
The leadership vacumn is huge. Anyone who decides to show some stones right now to fill it would be considered a hero.
Leadership doesn’t fit in with the group think of the Democommunist Party.
DemocRATS are a bunch of vomit inducing creeps.
No problem pushing your way through the Taliban to get to the airport. Voting in-person during Covid? Now THAT is risking your life!
This guy and his colleagues hate America. It is the common thread for all that is happening.
Soros and Obama got what they want- a humiliated US.
In my view, this is way worse than the issue of humiliation, which is bad enough. It’s American lives, both those trapped in Afghanistan and all of us who are increasingly trapped here and the walls close in.
Just a little advice:
anyone that works for the u s government, directly or indirectly ( employee or contractor ), outside of the continental U S
IS A FOOL !
Money makes people stupid. I suspect the government will have to make much more richer fools.
Big talk from this California parasite. Wasn’t this waste of skin, one of the cowards running scared during the January 6th fake insurrection production.
https://app.videosquirrel.app/watch/1984
Details of how US citizens have to pay for their evacuation flight out of Afghanistan!
Rosie memos remarking how illegal aliens get free flights EVERYWHERE…
Classify it as rent. No one pays.
I can picture the harried and exhausted Americans reaching the airport secure area after dodging hundreds of talibs outside only to be confronted with that souless- no-nonsense quarter-master officer from M*A*S*H explaining that they cannot board the last flight as they don’t have the right form or credit score, ….but can have a pizza oven (if they write pizza oven on the line on the form where it says “machine gun”)
Probably trying to leave these guys behind –
Silly Goose, Biden can’t read. They needed to funnel it into his fake earpiece.
The Biden ‘E’ from the campaign to now can be attributed to the bloody finger stains of Benghazi https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202979/Benghazi-attack-U-S-consulate-pictured-Libyan-attack-revealed-officials-knew-attack-plans-48-HOURS-before.html
So does this get Biden removed and the cackling hyena installed per the Lightbringer’s plans? If so, is a pre negotiated mass hostage release already signed and sealed for her to take credit for?
Worse things could happen.
As Biden sleeps 12 hours a day, in demented slumber, oblivious to the entire world now burning around him.
His judgment will come soon enough.
But the real perpetrators of this malice on humanity deserve hell, both here and now, and hereafter.
Commie
You can bet the farm that if this moron were stranded there in Kabul he would be screaming for—no, demanding—that the US find him safe passage out.
Parachutes are the answer. Gather up the Big Guy and his corrupt tribe then airdrop them behind Taliban lines.
It looks like some individuals are stepping up to the plate to try to help.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/the-nazarene-fund-afghanistan?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
https://warisboring.com/21st-century-dunkirk-the-story-of-how-air-traffic-controllers-used-social-media-dms-to-help-rescue-friends-trapped-in-afghanistan/
Beck said this morning they are in country now trying to rescue people.
State Dept Spox says they’re aware of “congestion” around the airport. Say what????? Like rush hour in Los Angeles? “con-freaking-gestion???!!” Oh dear Lord.
I would rather deal with congestion than exsanguination!
Well it just gets worse and worse. According to the State Department’s Security Advisory Council on August 14 ( put THAT date on the Afghanistan debacle timeline): “Repatriation flights are not free, and passengers will be required to sign a promissory loan agreement and may not be able to renew their US passports until the loan is repaid. Cost may be $2,000 or more person.” Are we dealing with complete psychopaths here?? Dearest Lord please make a way for our abandoned citizens. Their families here must be beside themselves.
A better translation is available:
“US Citizen passengers will be required to sign a promissory voting agreement and may not be able to renew their US passports until they can prove they have voted at least 2,000 times by mail for Democrat candidates.
Well, it seems it was drafted in a hurry, almost as if they knew it was going to be an issue. I’m sure they’ll make alterations as the mood takes them.
And will get fully vaccinated ASAP.
I am sure that is one of the terms of the contractors’ contracts. Their companies should pick it up.
It would be interesting to know the make up of those abandoned. Surely they’re not all contractors. The State (of Disgrace) Department seems clueless about this.
Hi Betsy, I completely agree.
Hello Jeff …. Thank you.
I would hope this statement would wake up more people as to who the democommiefascists really are, along with scumbag republicans, and what is really going on with the planned mess in Afghanistan, but it will not.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-afghani-mothers-throw-babies-over-barbed-wire-to-allied-troops
As Bannon said… When they’re desperate to get their kids out, they’ll throw the baby to the son of a Deplorable in a US uniform.
defund his security detail
Chief Operating Officer of the Nazarene Fund, Rudy Atlallah, joined Glenn Beck in the radio program to detail a dangerous mission his team is about to attempt in order to save the lives of thousands of Christians hiding and trapped in Afghanistan.
“I asked you to help me raise $20 million by Friday so I could secure the aircraft, and the helicopters, and the teams to be able to get 5,000 Christians that are marked for death [out of Afghanistan.] And yesterday, there was a notice from the Taliban that any of these [Christian] people will be burned alive. In less than 24 hours, you gave $9,334,652.24,” he continued. “This is the framework of hope. You are not alone! It is not just you. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I don’t think any one audience has ever done that!”
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/the-nazarene-fund-afghanistan
Wow! G-d bless Glenn Beck. I don’t care what some may think of him, he’s trying to save Christians in Afghanistan.
Beck is trying. Pray for their success.
Keep 1 round in your weapon in case you’re depending on a Dummycrat to save you on the battlefield
Is there a single Democrat in Congress who criticized Biden and his incompetent crew for all this?
President Trump would have told these Taliban cockroaches that if one American is killed or kept hostage they are going to suffer the same fate as the Iranian General Soleimani. We have the capabilities to wipe these savages off the map in short order.
He did, which is why we had a handle on this until the infantile “progressive” troglodytes running the the illegitimate Biden regime decided to do a 180 on all of President Trump’s policies.
We’re dealing with emotionally unstable children in the White House.
We are dealing with criminally insane psychopaths. The ones who vote for them are the emotionally unstable snowflakes. They obviously don’t know any better.
Hey FollowTheMoney, why couldn’t we do that with $2.4T over the past 20 years, including 4 with our beloved PDJT?
And show some respect. Their press conference the other day sounded a whole lot like our own Declaration of Independence. They have worked doggedly and determinedly to throw off an imperial oppressor.
And they recognize that women have a place in society. They are even acting brotherly to Shi’ites.
Give them a chance. WE are the bad guys here.
Never forget:
Southern border open, but Cubans fleeing Cuba are turned away.
Syrian, and now, Afghan “refugees” brought to the US, but Yazidi’s were abandoned.
You get the picture. As so many are saying, but bears repeating over and over again: It is all by design.
We are well beyond a minor difference of opinion with people like him.
For anyone who is too young to know or has been in a coma for the past half century, the national security gene disappeared from democrat DNA during the Vietnam era and has absolutely zero chance of regenerating.
Domestic Enemies Grand Standing Without Fear…
This article posted on CFP about how some US Traffic Controllers got together on their own to help some American friends stuck in Afganistan. They were getting messages from their leadership that they should just keep on working… nothing to worry about here…
“The situation had become dire, and KP soon learned that the information being relayed to his friends in Afghanistan by their superiors was in stark contrast to the reality of what was actually happening.
“So the controllers there give up all the airspace to Kingpin,” KP said, noting that Kingpin is located in South Carolina. “After this there is zero ATC in the whole country. My buddies in Kabul get told they’re going to get evacuated out of Afghanistan, but up to this point, their company IAP had been telling them to just keep working, that IAP was possibly working on a deal to continue providing ATC and airfield services even after the Taliban took over.”
“So with that plan out the window, no one knows what’s going on,” KP continued. “There’s no communication link between the controllers on the ground in Kabul and anyone at Kingpin, since they left their facility. Except that DH has a link with Kingpin and I have a link with controllers in Kabul.”
Putting their heads together and realizing what needed to be done, the duo took great personal risk to work with other air control assets and form a communication “bridge” between Kingpin and the Kabul controllers through social media messenger, while still being careful to only do so using unclassified information.”
21st Century Dunkirk: The story of how air traffic controllers used social media DMs to help rescue friends trapped in Afghanistan | War Is Boring
G-d bless them.
It looks like Glenn Beck is stepping up to rescue Christians who are trapped in the country.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/the-nazarene-fund-afghanistan?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
Shows that we are truly on our own.
PS And the Christians he’s referring to are Afghans who had converted to Christianity.
Thanks for the PS.
Just How “Eff’d” up can members of the Democratic Socialist Party BE? If anybody in the JoeBama Administration only had a brain, this tragedy should have been averted. Instead, These sorry excuse for human beings are making untenable excuses! I’m so angry I could Spit!
And what’s with using the word “extract” all the time in describing stranded U.S. citizens?!?! It’s called RESCUE!!
Another tell.
doesn’t Mr. Garamendi look EVEN WORSE than Joe Biden?
non compost mentis – no amount of breath mints can cover up the smell of manure
mendacity and mental incapacity, what a combination
For those who have never had a chance to see this, it’s a great refresh as t0: “the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”
It makes a big fricken difference to this American Patriot, explains why she’s still in the loop making calls to Trudeau and anyone else who will still listen to her lies. CYA!
So here’s the REAL story:
Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.
Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn’t arm the missile. The helicopter didn’t explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.
Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a “do-or-die” mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.
It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!
THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.
Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.
Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.
So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.
Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.
@ProudAmericann
Hence, why all the equipment was left behind.
Arms dealer says Clinton and Obama accidentally gave guns to ISIS, Al Qaeda and Benghazi attackers – then tried to scapegoat him for their screw-up with failed $10m felony case
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3833844/Marc-Turi-says-Clinton-Obama-accidentally-gave-guns-ISIS-Al-Qaeda-Benghazi-attackers-tried-scapegoat-screw-up.html
That is such an awesome story!
The new head of the Taliban government was one of those who was released. He gave an awesome press conference the other day. He has a wonderful presence, is gracious, and is a compelling speaker.
I CANNOT WAIT for him to tell this story! This is going to be the Taliban’s revenge.
I simply cannot ever bring myself to watch CNN they sicken me as do the people they bring on to “supposedly” interview. It is offensive from an intelligence, moral, ethical and patriotic standpoint. Each day the soap opera grows more dramatic and that’s a polite usage of the word. Will someone tell me the last several years are just a bad dream?
Here’s an idea: Have the 82nd Airborne drop Garamendi and the rest of his caucus in Kabul.
Give them satphones and let them call in to CNN and/or live hearings held by the Armed Services Cmte. for help!
In 1960 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the man who banged his shoe
American’s can take their country back from those seeing themselves as elite. You don’t have to take it, and neither did Nikita Khrushchev. This is my country, and we are not going to take this bull shit, as he hammered the table with his shoe.
Speaking of dramatic shoes . . . I was just thinking that we are getting near time for someone to let one fly at an administrative press conference. Can we have the courage of the Iraqis?