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Taliban approach Kabul's outskirts, attack
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 8/14/2021 11:13:01 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban seized two more provinces on Saturday and approached the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital while also launching a multi-pronged assault on a major northern city defended by former warlords, Afghan officials said. The insurgents have captured much of northern, western and southern Afghanistan in a breakneck offensive less than three weeks before the United States is set to withdraw its last troops, raising fears of a full militant takeover or another Afghan civil war. The Taliban captured all of Logar province, just south of the capital, Kabul, and detained local officials, said Hoda Ahmadi, a lawmaker from

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No one is even trying to stop the Taliban. The US troops and personnel may find themselves trapped in Kabul.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: volksford 8/14/2021 11:30:17 AM (No. 878685)
And now we will get to view a real time Joe Biden cluster come to an end. Roll the screen credits please.....Produced by Bushes Clintons Obama Mc Cain and a cast of thousands ( filmed on location )
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Reply 2 - Posted by: curious1 8/14/2021 11:35:07 AM (No. 878698)
Wonder if the Chinese have embeds in the approaching forces or are just staying back and watching.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 8/14/2021 11:42:33 AM (No. 878707)
As V.S. Naipaul said: "The West has packed its boxes and is waiting for the helicopters." Again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 8/14/2021 11:46:13 AM (No. 878713)
it would be nice to imagine the United States would launch a surprise counter-offensive and catch the Taliban off guard out in the open. The Taliban would run, and find their retreat cutoff because the US has had 20 years to learn all the routes in an out of Afghanistan. The end result being a massive loss for the Taliban. I can imagine, but it won't ever happen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 8/14/2021 11:55:05 AM (No. 878722)
All of those troops we trained and armed are folding up like a cheap suit. Where are the journalists and the video's of large battles being fought for these cities. I don't believe they are being fought for, it is my belief that the whole country is just glad to see the US leave so they can get back to fighting each other.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/14/2021 11:55:59 AM (No. 878724)
Biden you cheater, any comment?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: earlybird 8/14/2021 12:09:20 PM (No. 878744)
Is Joebama watching this on the telly wherever he is “vacationing”, cocoa mug in his hand, dog at his knee? Pitiful excuse for a man, let alone a president.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 8/14/2021 12:11:21 PM (No. 878746)
Still waiting for John Bolton, Max Boot, and Liz Cheney to declare, " Our foreign policy is in shambles!" Very vocal under Trump. Very quiet now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Pearson365 8/14/2021 12:15:45 PM (No. 878752)
Fully expect the head of the Joint Chiefs, General Milley, to blame the January 6th protest as the reason he and his sycophants in the Pentagon were unaware of the poor condition of the Afghan army. “If my senior staff and I weren’t having to understand ‘white rage’ by reading about Marxism and Critical Race Theory, we would have stopped the sudden withdrawal of our forces.”
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 8/14/2021 12:31:05 PM (No. 878770)
For the uninitiated, "detained" means tortured and murdered. You can thank Joe Biden with your last breath or curse him, your choice.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Strike3 8/14/2021 12:34:17 PM (No. 878775)
#4, it would more likely resemble the Obama plan with ISIS, give them a few months of unrestricted travel so they can easily capture every city in the country, rape the women and behead the leadership.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bighambone 8/14/2021 1:18:48 PM (No. 878833)
No doubt a Trump pullout would have been much different than the current pre-announced rapid Biden retreat. Just as ISIS in Iraq and Syria found out that there was a difference between Biden, and Trump who destroyed them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: OK state mom 8/14/2021 1:27:44 PM (No. 878846)
#4 Under current leadership a "Hail Mary" military plan would massively fail. Time to send in the helicopters and rescue the embassy staff and leave. We could bomb Afghanistan back to the Before Christ Era and it would still be the pile of rocks that it is now.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: cThree 8/14/2021 2:50:23 PM (No. 878945)
I doubt the helicopters are coming. Everything Pudding-Brain touches turns to rot.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Urgent Fury 8/14/2021 4:09:28 PM (No. 879014)
Glad I didn't lose a loved one to yet ANOTHER American military policy failure. Of course I am not disparaging the troops.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: mifla 8/15/2021 8:35:42 AM (No. 879564)
Biden recently said that the Taliban taking Kabul was unlikely. Can't wait to hear Psaki's spin.
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