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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #680 on: August 25, 2021, 10:52:42 AM »
How does the kool aid taste?
Coming from the guy who twitter is his source of info.  :)

You still didn't answer who are all these people they are evacuating?
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #681 on: August 25, 2021, 11:19:38 AM »
That guy is not 100 percent. What's the point of quoting him? Israelis are in Israel and he is a British "journalist". Arafat told him some idiocy in '95, Arafat is gone. The journalist is gone (from Israel). and if I remember correctly it was Arafat who had to dress up in women's clothing to escape Beirut.

The point of quoting is to show what the Afghanistan fiasco is doing to the terrorist psyche. Islamic terrorists/fundamentalists around the globe are emboldened by what they see as their victory over the westerners in Afghanistan.
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #682 on: August 25, 2021, 12:30:39 PM »
Do you believe this crap?
70k+ have been evacuated. Who do you think these are, Americans?  ::)
Nytimes: “With a looming Aug 31 Deadline it is believed that many Americans and Thousands of SIV eligible Afghans will stay behind”
Again I’m not sure what more Biden can do at this point but at minimum don’t try to spin it as if we had a perfect withdrawal and this is what was always gonna happen. We fudged up not removing these people before the military or at minimum have them approved so they can be removed, and now we are doing our best.

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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #683 on: August 25, 2021, 01:34:54 PM »
Nytimes: “With a looming Aug 31 Deadline it is believed that many Americans and Thousands of SIV eligible Afghans will stay behind”
Again I’m not sure what more Biden can do at this point but at minimum don’t try to spin it as if we had a perfect withdrawal and this is what was always gonna happen. We fudged up not removing these people before the military or at minimum have them approved so they can be removed, and now we are doing our best.
If any Americans are left that is on them. They were told leave "immediately" when they could.
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #684 on: August 25, 2021, 01:40:45 PM »
If any Americans are left that is on them. They were told leave "immediately" when they could.

Lol! How are they supposed to leave? Lots of empty seats on flights out of Kabul these days?
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #685 on: August 25, 2021, 01:54:52 PM »
Lol! How are they supposed to leave? Lots of empty seats on flights out of Kabul these days?
What are they waiting for? Saver availability in J?
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #686 on: August 25, 2021, 02:11:26 PM »
I predict we will regret this evacuation, houndreds of thousands of people will be flown out by the time the airlift is done, there's no way to thoroughly check every single person that waves a visa if he's a bad actor, already we're seeing reports of terrorists slipping through the cracks.

The same influx of Muslim refugees happened in France after they left Algeria, & it destroyed France, till today they suffer from it

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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #687 on: August 25, 2021, 02:14:33 PM »
I predict we will regret this evacuation, houndreds of thousands of people will be flown out by the time the airlift is done, there's no way to thoroughly check every single person that waves a visa if he's a bad actor, already we're seeing reports of terrorists slipping through the cracks.

The same influx of Muslim refugees happened in France after they left Algeria, & it destroyed France, till today they suffer from it

We're going to regret everything about Afghanistan or related to it, dating back to the 80's.
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #688 on: August 25, 2021, 02:16:26 PM »
Lol! How are they supposed to leave? Lots of empty seats on flights out of Kabul these days?
They should have left when two warnings were given days before they closed everything. Any American that wasn't prepared to leave on a moments notice in that country is an (insert your own word).
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #689 on: August 25, 2021, 02:16:34 PM »
We're going to regret everything about Afghanistan or related to it, dating back to the 80's.
Afganistan: the graveyard of empires.

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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #690 on: August 25, 2021, 02:25:26 PM »
We're going to regret everything about Afghanistan or related to it, dating back to the 80's.
My point is, the hypocrisy of some here is astounding,

we suddenly love refugees without taking a moment to think about the repercussions

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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #691 on: August 25, 2021, 04:19:18 PM »
They should have left when two warnings were given days before they closed everything. Any American that wasn't prepared to leave on a moments notice in that country is an (insert your own word).
True. That still doesn’t make it “a great evacuation “. Or fulfilled promises to Afghani’s
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #692 on: August 25, 2021, 04:40:10 PM »
True. That still doesn’t make it “a great evacuation “. Or fulfilled promises to Afghani’s
The sheer number they are evacuating is pretty damn good!!!

Are these promises like unwritten rules in baseball? You know what they are and just follow them?
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #693 on: August 25, 2021, 05:04:03 PM »

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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #694 on: August 25, 2021, 05:11:00 PM »
The sheer number they are evacuating is pretty damn good!!!
They definitely seem to be doing well under the circumstances. Once it left the politicians over to the military to get them out we can rely on the amazing men and women in uniform to get the job done!
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #695 on: August 25, 2021, 05:58:49 PM »
Finally a figure!

About 1,500 American citizens still in Afghanistan, Secretary of State says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/about-1-500-american-citizens-still-in-afghanistan-secretary-of-state-says/ar-AANK11G?ocid=msedgntp
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #697 on: August 25, 2021, 06:03:12 PM »
Out of the 70k+ so far it seems only 4-5k are Americans. Can there be that many interpreters?

Yup, how many of the 70k will have jumped on for the free pass, and will anyone be looking for such cases and how will they be handled?
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #698 on: August 25, 2021, 06:05:59 PM »
Out of the 70k+ so far it seems only 4-5k are Americans. Can there be that many interpreters?
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Re: Afghanistan Falls To The Taliban After US Withdrawal
« Reply #699 on: August 25, 2021, 06:11:30 PM »
And family
Yup, how many of the 70k will have jumped on for the free pass, and will anyone be looking for such cases and how will they be handled?
Did each soldier have a personal interpreter?  :)
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