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3 years ago
Afghan “refugees” in Europe are responsible for a surge in crime, especially rape.
https://kreately.in/europes-afghan-crime-wave-is-mind-boggling/
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3 years ago
The 101,600 are mostly the Afghans that the Taliban allowed into the airport through their checkpoints. Reflect on that. We are bringing 100,000 Afghanis into America who were hand selected by the Taliban for that purpose. Any chance there are a few jihadis among that group ?
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3 years ago
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To paraphrase Tolstoy:
All Happy customers resemble one another, but each Pathetic Loser is unhappy in his own way.’
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3 years ago
A military expert explains, in detail, the bad decisions that were made, who made them, and why
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9923259/General-Scott-Miller-Kenneth-McKenzie-blame-Afghanistan-military-expert-claims.html
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3 years ago
Democrat congressman Seth Moulton visited Kabul a few days ago. This is his assessment:
“The thing that everybody needs to understand, even if you completely agree with the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw, the way they have handled this has been a total fucking disaster,” said Moulton, who traveled to the country with Republican representative from Michigan, Peter Meijer. “It will be measured in bodies, because a lot of people are dying because they can’t get out.”
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3 years ago
Stephen Miller, a former staffer and speechwriter for former President Donald Trump, told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday that the “vast majority” of the incoming tens of thousands of Afghan refugees have “rendered no meaningful assistance” to U.S. forces.
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3 years ago
Special Ops veterans and the secret mission that saved hundreds of Afghan allies
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-special-operations-vets-carry-daring-mission-save/story?id=79670236
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3 years ago
“Biden made sure to mention that ISIS is the "enemy" of the Taliban.”
And yet, one of the first things the Taliban did was release hundreds of ISIS prisoners from jail. Would they do that for an enemy ?
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3 years ago
The Taliban have released a video showing a warehouse of weapons left behind. As bonus footage, there is literally a pallet of stacks of hundred dollar bills. Your tax dollars at work.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/biden-leaves-stacks-and-stacks-pallets-of-u-s-100-dollar-bills-for-the-taliban/
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3 years ago
Here’s the link
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957
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3 years ago
The Biden administration has, on purpose, provided the Taliban a list of every American and every Afghan friendly it is aware of. It did this because the Taliban promised to facilitate getting them to the airport.
Would anyone care to weigh in on the wisdom of this decision ?
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3 years ago
I don’t know whether that story about Biden’s Sept 11 speech is true. We’ll probably never know. But, it’s the only plausible explanation I’ve heard for why we suddenly closed Bagram and pulled out our troops before evacuating American citizens. No other explanation makes sense.
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3 years ago
There are stories being told that this rapid timetable in Afghanistan is being driven by Biden’s desire to give a speech on September 11 taking credit for getting us out of Afghanistan. How’s that for patriotism ?
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3 years ago
Like others on the left, 25 deeply believes that anyone who doesn’t agree with him is not a patriot. That’s part of the creed of the left. They believe they are smarter and more compassionate than those with other political beliefs. That lets them justify lying and cheating to maintain power. Clinton did that. Obama did that. And, now, Biden is doing that. Do or say whatever it takes to maintain power, including sacrificing American lives in Afghanistan.
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3 years ago
Words that didn’t hold up well.
25( 18 hours ago ): I don't think Biden's that stupid, he's obviously getting good military advice and right now appears to be succeeding,
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3 years ago
Here’s a rough account of aircraft left behind. The most significant seems to be Blackhawk helicopters. Some outdated fighter jets.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/08/17/the-taliban-has-access-to-us-military-aircraft-now-what-happens/
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3 years ago
British and German troops are no longer in Afghanistan. They evacuated in the last 24 hours.
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3 years ago
Reports that there were 100 Christian missionaries, along with 300 Afghan children in their care, who were ordered to leave Kabul airport last night by a two star general with the 82nd airborne. They were outside the gates of the airport when the explosion took place.
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3 years ago
The official State Department website is telling Americans in Kabul to not go to the airport. Instead, they are being told to fill out a form about their situation and submit it online.
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3 years ago
Reports of multiple US military injured in the attack with at least one fatality.
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3 years ago
The Afghan army had hand held surface to air missiles ( known as manpads ). These weapons are likely now in possession of the Taliban or ISIS. They can take down any aircraft departing Kabul, if they choose.
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3 years ago
Reports that US Troops have welded shut the gates to the Kabul airport. The evacuation is over, except for troops at the airport.
There have been 2,498 US military deaths since the beginning of the war, twenty years ago. There are at least 2,500 US troops now at the Kabul airport with no way out if someone begins shelling the runway.
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3 years ago
Reportedly, multiple explosions and small arms fire at both entrances to the Kabul airport.
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3 years ago
A government watchdog group says the U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 aircraft in Afghanistan as forces evacuate the country after a 20-year war.
We’ve made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.”
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3 years ago
mark94 - your runway information is incorrect. One runway was deactivated.
The runway is a slab of concrete several feet thick. What would be involved in reactivating it ? Sprinkle holy water on it ?