Biden orders 1,000 more troops to aid
Afghanistan departure as Taliban
surge toward Kabul
Associated Press,
by
Robert Burns
&
Ellen Knickmeyer
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/14/2021 8:24:40 PM
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden authorized on Saturday an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of U.S. troops to ensure what Biden called an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel. U.S. troops will also help in the evacuation of Afghans who worked with the military during the nearly two-decade war. The last-minute decision to re-insert thousands of U.S. troops into Afghanistan reflected the dire state of security as the Taliban seized control of multiple Afghan cities in a few short days. The militant and fundamentalist movement gained control of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/14/2021 8:41:27 PM (No. 879240)
Biden is a fraud installed demented stooge. He orders nothing. Those really responsible for this train wreck should be strung up by their thumbs and publicly whipped.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Californian 8/14/2021 8:44:41 PM (No. 879243)
He already blamed Trump, as expected, so he doesn't care if all 5000 die. It's Trump's fault.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
IowaDad 8/14/2021 8:48:41 PM (No. 879246)
Good question! Only way out is by air. One well-placed piece of artillery can shut an airfield for hours, and helicopters have limited range and capacity. Ouch!
Trump told the Taliban he’d bomb the bejesus out of them if they threatened any American. And he would too. Sigh!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
scottj 8/14/2021 8:54:36 PM (No. 879249)
He pulled our troops out in the middle of the night and now he's sending them back in. What an incompetent fool.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/14/2021 8:56:22 PM (No. 879250)
Biden has known for at least 3 months that Afghanistan has fallen. Why this 72 hour seat of the pants operation?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fhancock 8/14/2021 9:04:15 PM (No. 879255)
Biden was in Congress in 1974/75 when the Democratic Majority cut off all funds, ammunition, fuel from the South Vietnamese Military. The resultant April 1975 invasion of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army was assured success. Biden knows how to lose and lose BIGLY. This disaster was entirely expected from this Administration of Marxists and charlatans.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/14/2021 9:05:20 PM (No. 879258)
The exact wording of the order: “You know, the thing.”
The Startled Possum soon was able to get back to sleep, with strict orders not to bother him after 11:30 AM or before 9:45 AM.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 8/14/2021 9:05:56 PM (No. 879259)
Hunters dad now has his own Saigon
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Grounded 8/14/2021 9:13:49 PM (No. 879268)
Boy, it didn't take long for Afghanistan to fall apart like a cheap pair of shoes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Phantomll 8/14/2021 9:28:05 PM (No. 879277)
Should have already sent in military airlift to evacuate Amrericans.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/14/2021 9:32:49 PM (No. 879280)
Did he do this in between scoops of ice cream at Camp David?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/14/2021 9:37:38 PM (No. 879284)
What is going on now in Afghanistan has nothing to do with anything that Trump did when he was President. The deal that Trump had with the Taliban to withdraw from Afghanistan was dependent upon the Taliban first doing certain things like negotiating with the government of Afghanistan. Since the Taliban failed to carry out their part of the agreement, the USA was under no obligation to withdraw from Afghanistan in accordance with that deal. Trump has not been President now for eight months.
Since assuming office Biden ignored the fact that the Taliban failed to carry out their responsibilities under their agreement with the USA, and decided to instead retreat from Afghanistan as soon as he could. In that respect Biden told the world that he had decided to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan by the end of August, 2021. Biden also authorized the US military to abandon the big Bagram Airbase surreptitiously in the middle of the night without even advising the Afghan Government or military that US forces were leaving. Those Biden decisions served as a “go” signal to the Taliban to take offensive actions to fill the the physical and psychological voids left when he rapidly pulled just about all the US troops out of Afghanistan. Now there is a dangerous debacle ongoing in Afghanistan caused by Biden’s decisions that clearly have nothing to do with Trump.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 8/14/2021 10:06:38 PM (No. 879299)
No. 12 - Excellent! Thank you.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JGalt 8/14/2021 11:05:50 PM (No. 879333)
First question: why is biden micromanaging this mess? He should just provide the mission objectives and let the generals decide how best to accomplish them.
Second question: who is it that really is in charge here? It’s not biden of course… he can’t tell the difference between Afghanistan and Libya
To be honest, whoever is running this disaster is every bit as stupid as biden.
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Well that's an Orwellian headline.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 8/15/2021 5:56:12 AM (No. 879446)
Send Hunter instead.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/15/2021 6:30:07 AM (No. 879464)
This is funny, the AssPress talking about Biden like he was a real president instead of a clueless nitwit who made an obvious error in judgement and will get thousands of people killed because of his incompetence. Beheading this clown would not diminish his abilities in the least.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/15/2021 8:45:39 AM (No. 879586)
Remember Biden was involved in more or less the same style retreat fiasco that took place in Iraq during the Obama-Biden Administration era, that contributed greatly to the birth to the terrorist organization known as ISIS. Biden was also in the Senate back in 1975 when the liberal Democrat Congress refused to give anymore aid or support to South Vietnam that caused the North Vietnamese to advance and rout the USA out of South Vietnam, lastly by way of helicopters having to fly off the US Embassy roof in Saigon. By now the Democrats should know that when fighting brutal and determined enemies the USA trying to turn primitive foreign countries, especially Islamist religious based countries, into new Vermont type peaceful utopias does not work out, costs a lot of money, and most sadly of all a lot of unnecessary casualties to US military members.
Also the current President fraudulently blaming a prior administration and former President who has not been in power for eight months, for the bad decisions regarding Afghanistan made recently by him and his administration, along with a bunch of “woke” politicized Generals who never won a war, as to how the US withdrawal from Afghanistan would be conducted is not going to work out politically in the end. The only good thing in all this is that it looks like the USA may be finally out of Afghanistan, that is after the 5,000 US troops that Biden now says he is deploying to the Kabul airport, a place that may be surrounded shortly by the Taliban, can get back out of Afghanistan in one piece.
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Now he's in full panic mode. How will these troops get home if the Taliban surrounds all the exits?