Defense officials claim they'll rescue
5,000 a day from Kabul but only
1,400 have been removed since the
Taliban took over and up to '40,000'
remain stranded
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/17/2021 11:23:59 AM
US defense officials in charge of evacuating Americans and Afghan refugees from Taliban-held Kabul claim they'll remove 5,000 every day but so far, they've only rescued 1,400 since Sunday and as many as 40,000 remain stranded. At a briefing on Tuesday morning, US Army Major General Hank Taylor revealed 700 people were flown out of the region overnight on seven C-17 jets. The number included 165 US citizens and the rest were for foreign nationals. He claimed between 5,000 and 9,000 people will be removed every day on one flight per hour but there was no sign of any US plane at the airport on Tuesday while
Why are we flying out foreign nationals before US citizens?
The only way you are going to reach those numbers is to stuff them into the C-17s 700 at a time.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
OldDog 8/17/2021 11:42:11 AM (No. 882495)
What about those brave Afghan individuals who live ANYWHERE but Kabul????????
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/17/2021 11:45:45 AM (No. 882498)
Afghanistan is the 100% the failure of the United Nations. You can't trust that group with running a lemonade stand much less securing the peace of nations. Relocate them to Islamic countries, not the USA.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/17/2021 12:08:21 PM (No. 882519)
Evacuating Americans is one thing; flying out the cowards who won't fight for their own country...why? They weren't OUR allies in the fight for their country and society; the US was THEIR ally. We did our best. Had Afghans created a supportable national government and a security force, this would have been avoided. They can surrender those "Live Free or Die" license plates for "Allahu Akbar".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Pearson365 8/17/2021 12:16:31 PM (No. 882527)
A. How are we feeding and providing sanitation facilities for the 10,000 to 20,000 people jammed into the airport in addition to caring for our 6,000 military personnel?
B. How are we screening for Taliban and al Qaeda supporters among the throng?
C. How are we screening for the virus and other diseases amid the chaos.
D. What are we to do with the 40,000 to 80,000 Afghan refugees who have almost nothing once they are evacuated? Will they simply be flown into US bases in Virginia and Wisconsin and then be released? The costs will be enormous.
Biden’s folly is just beginning.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GO3 8/17/2021 12:16:41 PM (No. 882528)
Paraphrasing Hermann Goering to Field Marshal Von Paulus: Don’t worry, we’ll resupply you by air.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/17/2021 12:47:41 PM (No. 882549)
The evacuation will be slower that we expect - - because the generals have to give priority to those needing sex-change operations - - and - - they have to weed out White Rage.
Once those things are done - - everything will be super-smooth.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/17/2021 12:57:00 PM (No. 882559)
What in the heck were 40,000 people doing strolling around like tourists in a collapsing war zone?
I have some difficulty believing that this is a valiid number of actual Americans who need to be rescued. I suspect that they are padding the numbers with massive numbers of Afghanis who will be troublesome if brought here. The last thing we need is more Muslims.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/17/2021 1:09:35 PM (No. 882577)
How many are women and children?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/17/2021 1:13:50 PM (No. 882584)
They are assuming that the Taliban will allow it. Right now. The embarrassment to the US serves their purposes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rubinski 8/17/2021 1:25:50 PM (No. 882602)
Since we gave our allies absolutely no warning at all, I imagine a lot of the stranded are British, Canadian, etc.
The killing will start before long, so I predict this going to get a lot worse for Biden before it’s over.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
subal 8/17/2021 1:31:39 PM (No. 882608)
Wait till they take 200 hostages and demand release of the terrorists fromall form Guantanamo.
Current taliban leader was released from there by o bana!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/17/2021 1:40:49 PM (No. 882617)
The same people who planned the Afghan withdrawal have planned the rescue of Americans and Afghan SIVs. Biden doesn't care, as they are collateral damage, as is America.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 8/17/2021 1:58:11 PM (No. 882641)
Forty thousand seems like a lot. Since we've known since last year that we were pulling out, why are there still that many in Afghanistan?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/17/2021 2:07:52 PM (No. 882655)
After Biden shut down all the military bases I assumed there were only a couple hundred people left - at most. Maybe the State Dept flew people in and out of Kabul all the time so they could claim ''I was in Afghanistan'' and crown themselves as foreign policy experts.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/17/2021 2:22:56 PM (No. 882674)
The Taliban guy shown in one of the pix has a M16, and is US trained. He clearly has learned his weapons handling from US trainers, just from that photo.
I'll bet that 90% of the "good Afghanis" that we trained were actually Taliban all along.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rama41 8/17/2021 2:38:06 PM (No. 882689)
As they evacuate Americans, are they prioritizing them by equity? /s
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/17/2021 2:40:25 PM (No. 882694)
1. Defense official in Biden's Administration are ALL LIARS and IDIOTS.
2. See #1
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