Marines Prepare to Evacuate Kabul Embassy
ahead of Possible Taliban Assault: Report
National Review,
by
Caroliine Downey
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
8/12/2021 2:47:16 PM
The Pentagon is preparing for a possible evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan amid fears that the Taliban may overrun the compound in the coming days, the New York Times reported Thursday.
As the militant organization makes significant gains, capturing ten provincial capitals across the country, the State Department is expected to reduce embassy staff and is considering relocating its outpost to the Kabul airport, a number of sources told CNN. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is moving marines into position to cover the evacuation of staff as intelligence reports suggest the Taliban may launch an assault within 30 days, the Times reported.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
velirotta 8/12/2021 2:53:10 PM (No. 876645)
All of the decades of work, of blood and treasure, expended to stabilize the Middle East, down the tube because of the idiocy and flailings of a demented faux President an his liberal/progressive/ Marxist cohorts. The whole world should mourn, while the Biden clown show moves on at warp speed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/12/2021 2:55:09 PM (No. 876652)
Shades of Saigon when the dems decided communism isn't so bad after all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
dman 8/12/2021 3:03:38 PM (No. 876669)
Dittos, #2. From Saigon (1975) to Kabul (2021): this is what you get when the "War Party" is in control. Many who have helped us and cannot get out will be slaughtered.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/12/2021 3:04:44 PM (No. 876670)
They expect Kabul to fall within 30 days.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/12/2021 3:07:14 PM (No. 876674)
There are no boats for the Afgan's who supported the United States in its effort to rid the country of brutal head choppers. The killing fields will be hidden away in the mountains of that place, and there will be no movies made about it because a Democrat led the getaway.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Marzon 8/12/2021 3:09:39 PM (No. 876681)
I expect they will delay the actual attack on the embassy until September 11th and then the humiliation will be complete.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 8/12/2021 3:18:33 PM (No. 876698)
Do the planet a favor. Turn this place into a glass plain.
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Time to dust off the Frequent Wind playbook. Unfortunately there is no South China Sea nearby full of American amphibs and carriers.
Get ready for an influx on a million Afghanis.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sanspeur 8/12/2021 3:20:34 PM (No. 876703)
send in jane fonda to film the roof evacuation. And maybe a screaming child .. everything olde is new again to our warlord kongress /faux prezzy etx
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You can bet it's 20 times worse than we are being told!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/12/2021 4:14:05 PM (No. 876748)
Great. Just in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TXknitter 8/12/2021 4:15:20 PM (No. 876749)
Yes #5, for all the hand-wringing I saw clips on FOX of “oh it should not be that we abandon those who helped the USA,” the Biden administration will do just that. The intelligence apparatus and State Dept will cover up the extent of it and won’t care at all.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bill O Rights 8/12/2021 4:17:29 PM (No. 876753)
Don't worry. Mark Milley is lying to Biden about troop withdrawals because we have to protect the Afghan women.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 8/12/2021 4:19:22 PM (No. 876757)
Place a turret mounted 50 cal. every 50 yards around the perimeter and send out invitations to these camel jockeys.
Our perfumed princes at the Pentagon can't wait to see the US humiliated.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/12/2021 4:24:24 PM (No. 876764)
If there are any religious articles of any value, they better get them out of there too, or the Taliban will destroy them like they've done in other areas.
Seem to recall the Buddha's that were carved into a mountain that they blew up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/12/2021 4:24:31 PM (No. 876765)
And all I have of my USMC nephew are memories and photos. And a steely hate for those who put him there, without the intent to win.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MEdwards1776 8/12/2021 4:30:08 PM (No. 876767)
General Cutis LeMay said it best during the Vietnam War… I think its absolutely appropriate for the situation in Afghanistan.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Debrawr 8/12/2021 6:16:31 PM (No. 876841)
Vietnam all over again. If you're going to start a war, you should try to win it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 8/12/2021 6:19:29 PM (No. 876843)
Re #17, for the place it would be a very short trip.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
volksford 8/12/2021 6:20:51 PM (No. 876847)
What in hell did we accomplish in Afghanistan ? We lost a lot of fine young Americans in another craphole country for what ? RAH RAH SIS BOOM BAH.... go to hell you neocon nation building bastids
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/13/2021 2:09:36 AM (No. 877094)
If the Taliban fostered a 9/11 style attack on Beijing, would a tired Chinese army walk away after 20 years? Does the Chinese military even consider an “exit strategy?” Did the Romans? We do not understand the meaning of empire. A pity, because our enemy does. History gives no reward for nice.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mifla 8/13/2021 4:08:13 AM (No. 877113)
Proving once again that if you go to war, leave the rule book and lawyers at home, and play to win. If not, stay home.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/13/2021 5:48:38 AM (No. 877150)
What the hell can one expect with a cowardly Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and an"Affirmative Action" Secretary of Defense, all led by a Buffoon in the White House?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 8/13/2021 11:18:09 AM (No. 877443)
Saigon 2.0
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/13/2021 11:22:46 AM (No. 877446)
From Cuba, the USSR, North Vietnam through and including radical Islam and Iran, and everything in between, the Democrats have sided with America's enemies for over fifty years. Nothing has changed and nothing will.
Unless and until...
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