Dozens of California students, parents
stranded in Afghanistan after summer
trip abroad
The Hill,
by
Cameron Jenkins
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/25/2021 5:16:39 PM
Dozens of California students and parents are stranded in Afghanistan after taking a summer trip to the country.More than 20 students and 16 parents from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, Calif., visited Afghanistan on summer vacation. Now they are among thousands of people who are waiting to leave the country amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal that has caused political unrest across the nation, according to the Los Angeles Times.Cajon Valley Superintendent David Miyashiro alerted school board members on Tuesday that he would be meeting with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to discuss the situation, the Times noted.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 8/25/2021 5:20:12 PM (No. 892608)
Summer vacation. Afghanistan. Insanity. We could even take the kids, too!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/25/2021 5:30:08 PM (No. 892626)
Going to Afghanistan in the middle of a military pullout is a level of heedlessness only Californians could achieve. Still, they are our fellow citizens (I assume), and I'm glad Rep. Issa is working for them. I hope we see them arriving home, rather than being paraded in blindfolds as Biden's Folly moves from its "Saigon" to its "Teheran" phase.
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What is it about El Cajon, also home to a large population of Chaldean migrants?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 8/25/2021 5:47:53 PM (No. 892653)
What school board thought that was a good idea? Oh wait, I actually considered a California school really capable of critical thought. My bad.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TLCary 8/25/2021 6:02:04 PM (No. 892672)
"stranded" sounds like mom forgot to pick them up from school after practice. They bought tickets but "were not able to get to the airport". A small detail and they may be late for fall classes. The headline could read: "AMERICAN CHILDREN CAUGHT BEHIND ENEMY LINES IN TALIBAN-CONTROLLED AFGHANISTAN CAN'T ESCAPE THE TERRORISTS, AND NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE THEM!"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Tennman 8/25/2021 6:05:07 PM (No. 892676)
Special kind of stupid to go there for a field trip.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/25/2021 6:08:32 PM (No. 892680)
Out of all the places in the world to go, Afghanistan, really? Certainly your choice but I just cannot imagine that is on my list of places to visit. It's like walking across the interstate during rush hour. Don't be surprised if you get hit by a car. Visit Afghanistan, don't be surprise if something bad happened. You might have been safer if you had visited the south side of Chicago on a hot Friday night. I'm sorry this happened to you but, damn. Poor planning.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/25/2021 6:27:11 PM (No. 892713)
What kind of a person imagines that a summer visit to a hellish 3rd world war zone is a good idea, EVER?
When does person responsibility come into play?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/25/2021 6:29:33 PM (No. 892720)
Vacation in Afghanistan is so woke!
What could possibly go wrong?đ¤Śââď¸
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/25/2021 6:37:31 PM (No. 892730)
Really? Summer Vacation in Afghanistan? Who did the planning? Clark Griswold?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Californian 8/25/2021 6:37:56 PM (No. 892731)
It's my peoples in action! Taking the kids on a field trip to an j stable hell hole war zone! Fun for the whole family! Yay!
I wonder who the parents voted for?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/25/2021 6:44:01 PM (No. 892735)
Tourist Students from El Cajon(the box) find themselves in a Cajon...the city is most famous as a roadside Tourist stop. It used to have "Frontier Town" a wild west attraction with shootouts etc, the Kids should find this all quite "Entertaining"
4 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/25/2021 6:46:32 PM (No. 892740)
Media now reporting...."Under Trump, Afghanistan was soooo peaceful, schoolkids and tourists regularly visited, Under Biden many are now trappped" (ya right, as if)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/25/2021 6:49:25 PM (No. 892743)
Reminds me of the 20-somethings from Berkeley who went hiking along the Iranian border. They ended up in prison for a couple years.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/25/2021 6:54:08 PM (No. 892751)
My God. What kind of parents take their kids to a war zone for vacation? Talk about Darwin Award candidates!
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/25/2021 6:54:32 PM (No. 892752)
There should be a centralized State Department phone number and email address for Americans in the U.S. seeking evacuation assistance for friends and family in Afghanistan. In this way, the government will soon learn the names and approximate whereabouts of most stranded U.S. citizens.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/25/2021 6:56:09 PM (No. 892754)
They must be democrats. Leave them there.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/25/2021 7:15:46 PM (No. 892782)
Woke Kalifornia parents - - would rather show their spawn the cultural wonders of Afghanistan - - than the pedestrian contributions of Italy or France or England or Spain or Holland or Greece.
Well - - they showed them - - and now they can live with it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cartcart 8/25/2021 7:34:58 PM (No. 892807)
The parents who consented by signing a permission slip ought to have their heads examined. Who goes there on vacation?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/25/2021 7:44:51 PM (No. 892828)
A California fruit loop takes kids to a war zone. Iâm simply not surprised at all. They probably thought if they could hug a terrorist and meditate together while sniffing some herbal nonsense would make everyone just stop and live in peace forever.
Idiots.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 8/25/2021 7:45:56 PM (No. 892831)
Perfect example of why California is circling the drain and elected an idiot. As I said yesterday, what idiot parent would let their kid go to Afghanistan as a student? Why are school age students allowed in Afghanistan? What possible reason for going into a war zone? At this point, leave them there. If the parents are this stupid, they've probably brainwashed their kids as well. California will be better of without these people. Plus, the idiot parents won't be able to vote in the recall election.
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US State Dept. just ordered all Americans away from the gates at the airport. Can't post as a story because its Twitter, but here is the link.
https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1430667810318004232
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/25/2021 7:50:07 PM (No. 892848)
My children have traveled all over the world, even when they were in high school. There's no freakin' way I would have allowed my children to travel to Afghanistan or any other place in the Middle East. Summer vacation in an unstable country? They must have thought more of veggie than they should. Good grief, people.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Sergeant Major 8/25/2021 9:15:59 PM (No. 892921)
I will repeat a sages comment, you can't fix stupid. Yes, lets take a vacation to a war zone, should be okay.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cThree 8/25/2021 9:33:32 PM (No. 892933)
Has there ever been so stupid an idea since the Washington war mongers took their picnic baskets to the First Battle of Bull Run?
This is a special, woke kind of stuff for brains.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hershey 8/25/2021 10:19:01 PM (No. 892961)
You know only some stupid democraps from Kalifornia would vacation in the 'Stan....
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
XCenturion 8/26/2021 12:28:51 AM (No. 893051)
Traveling to a war zone during an imminent collapse of the Afghani government. Sounds like a great idea. What could possibly go wrong? It figures these morons would be from California and I wonder if this is a Gavin Newsom cultural student exchange program? If they turn out to be Liberals, leave them there.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/26/2021 11:05:04 AM (No. 893429)
I had forgotten about the Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Christians who had been resettled as refugees some time ago in El Cajon, CA. Apparently Afghans have also settled there. These kids are from that group.
Two, based on local reports, they may have been Afghani immigrants, the area is loaded of Iraqi Chaldean Christian immigrants many of whom vote Republican, and for Afghani immigrants, that would be a very friendly area with shops that sell their favorite foods (even the local Walmart does). others who speak at least some of their language, and a general community that knows what war is. Blaming the victims in this case doesn't work, and the kids are in genuine danger now.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/biden_jokes_with_nbc_correspondent_about_americans_stranded_in_afghanistan.html
About the Chaldean Christian Iraqis:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sdut-fleeing-isis-chaldeans-el-cajon-2015aug22-story.html
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/26/2021 11:16:46 AM (No. 893448)
Stupid is as Stupid does. What insane moron thought going to a war torn country with Terrorists everywhere was a good idea?
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