Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

Do you care?

  • No

    Votes: 41 23.6%

  • Hell No

    Votes: 48 27.6%

  • Yes, we should invade and send in Troops

    Votes: 25 14.4%

  • I like Pie

    Votes: 60 34.5%
  • Total voters
    174
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Vol737 said:
We’re so stupid. We just broadcast to the whole damn world everything we are thinking about doing or about to do. And we wonder why we look like…well, something about a monkey and a football. Where do we find such men?
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That ending scene of the movie The Bridges at Toko-Ri always stuck.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says U.S. expressed "in no uncertain terms" at the United Nations through "a very strongly worded press statement" from the Security Council that "we expect the Taliban to respect women's rights" and "to be respectful of humanitarian law."

Critics baffled by UN ambassador boasting of 'very strongly worded press statement' to Taliban: 'Wut'

Holy Sh!t..its exactly like Hans Blix from the Southpark Movie..
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What was the old adage?

Something about sticks and stones...
 
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YankeeVol said:
Probably not where you think it is now

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If only we had perfected self-destruct technology.....

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Franklin Pierce said:
British Officials Fear the US Could Pull Out of Kabul within DAYS leaving thousands stranded Despite Biden's promise to stay until all US citizens are out: President Is Accused Of Keeping Closest Ally In The Dark

British officials are reportedly concerned that the U.S. could withdraw from Kabul airport any time, leaving other countries in the lurch as the world scrambles to get out of Afghanistan.

In a sign of deep distrust between the close allies, British commanders were left wondering whether the U.S. would leave without forewarning them.

Sources told The Guardian that they could not guarantee how long the U.S. would keep its contingent of 6,000 troops on the ground and cautioned that the UK could not continue the rescue without their presence.

The U.K. currently has 900 troops in Afghanistan, supervising the evacuation of the 4,000 or so U.K. citizens still in the country, and the thousands of Afghans who have helped the U.K. over the past 20 years.

British officials fear US could pull out of Kabul within DAYS as Biden accused of keeping UK in dark | Daily Mail Online
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You see a lot of this. They could send troops if they were so concerned. The UK is not Haiti.
 
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rjd970 said:
That falls under 2 or 3.

The first thing wrong from the tweet is specific to actually leaving which I thought we had universal agreement on. I can find numerous posts in this thread, some which are downright lecturing, that nobody is complaining about leaving, it was the way it was done.

Mr Orange blood here posted a tweet that seems to think leaving was a mistake.

So I ask again, what was the alternative to leaving that Biden should have considered?
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It appears that Biden was warned this was going to happen quickly and he ignored those warnings, fine as CIC he has that prerogative. So that means he approved a bad withdrawal plan. He really had 2 choices, evacuate all civilians and critical hardware while still supporting the Afghan Army keeping the Taliban in the mountains. Then make a rapid evacuation of those 2-3 thousand troops supporting the Afghans. Or he could have done what he did and ****ed up worse than a football bat.

Why is this hard for you?
 
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hog88 said:
It appears that Biden was warned this was going to happen quickly and he ignored those warnings, fine as CIC he has that prerogative. So that means he approved a bad withdrawal plan. He really had 2 choices, evacuate all civilians and critical hardware while still supporting the Afghan Army keeping the Taliban in the mountains. Then make a rapid evacuation of those 2-3 thousand troops supporting the Afghans. Or he could have done what he did and ****ed up worse than a football bat.

Why is this hard for you?
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Why is this hard for you? You are arguing points of how it was done. I’m talking about the decision to leave itself.

The original post said “he decided to leave but had other options”. Irrespective of HOW it was done. I want to know if he had other options besides leaving, then what were this other than staying?

The fact I’m about 5 posts into this really makes me regret making such a post with the assumption people actually understood what it was saying.
 
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rjd970 said:
Why is this hard for you? You are arguing points of how it was done. I’m talking about the decision to leave itself.

The original post said “he decided to leave but had other options”. Irrespective of HOW it was done. I want to know if he had other options besides leaving, then what were this other than staying?

The fact I’m about 5 posts into this really makes me regret making such a post with the assumption people actually understood what it was saying.
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We have been arguing how Biden ****ed up the how this whole time.
 
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Kamala STILL refuses to address catastrophic withdrawal in Afghanistan as she addresses black journalists in RECORDED comments and majority of voters say she is not fit to be president

Kamala Harris's standing among likely voters is falling as 55 per cent reveal they do not think the vice president is qualified to run the nation as she spoke publicly for the first time in six days in pre-recorded remarks for a black journalism conference.

When likely voters were asked in a Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday if Harris is ready to be U.S. president, 47 per cent said she is 'not at all qualified' while 8 per cent said she's 'not qualified.'

It also comes as questions emerged over Harris' role in the chaotic and bungled U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which has garnered massive criticism from Democrats and Republicans.

Poll: 55% of Americans think Kamala is NOT ready to be president after avoiding spotlight for 6 days | Daily Mail Online
 
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White House Goes Silent after Biden's Afghanistan Interview Fiasco: President Schedules NO Public Appearances and Jen Psaki's Team Fail To Host Daily Briefings

Joe Biden on Thursday made no public appearances after a widely-panned interview in which he claimed the Afghanistan chaos was inevitable.

The president had a closed-door Afghanistan briefing, according to his schedule.

But no public events were held following Wednesday night's sit-down with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, also failed to hold a press briefing on Thursday - sparking accusations that the White House had retreated to a 'bunker' amid the Afghanistan chaos.

The administration sent the deputy National Security Adviser, Jonathan Finer, as their envoy to news networks, while his more senior colleagues remained out of sight.

White House silent after Biden's Afghan interview fiasco: President schedules NO public appearances | Daily Mail Online
 
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$549 Million Spent On Unreliable Transport Planes

This year he documented how the U.S. Air Force wasted $549 million on faulty cargo planes.

The Pentagon bought 20 refurbished G222 aircraft in 2008 for the Afghan government but they proved unreliable. Spare parts were difficult to find and their crews complained about their safety.

They were put up for sale but eventually sold for scrap at a price of $40,257.

$549M in planes sold as scrap and a $176M road to nowhere: How the US wasted billions in Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online
 
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EVACUATION FLIGHTS NOT GUARANTEED TO BE FREE: Even though U.S. officials tell NatSec Daily and others that evacuation flights from Kabul will be free, people trying to catch a plane in the Afghan capital say differently. One person said State Department staff were seeking large payments — up to $2,000 — from American passengers and even more from non-U.S. citizens.

When we relayed what this person told us to the State Department, a spokesperson didn’t deny that this is happening.

“U.S. law requires that evacuation assistance to private U.S. citizens or third country nationals be provided ‘on a reimbursable basis to the maximum extent practicable.’ The situation is extremely fluid, and we are working to overcome obstacles as they arise,” the spokesperson said.

In other words, the Biden administration may request payments for evacuation flights.

Exclusive: Biden's Iran envoy calls nuclear deal's fate 'one big question mark'
 
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