wwkirk
Divine
I don't believe Americans in Afghanistan were given prior warning about the withdrawal, and if they were any distance from the Kabul airport, it has obviously been difficult or impossible to get there qiuickly - or at all.Blinken is an idiot..
Up to 1.5K Americans including 23 California students are STRANDED in Afghanistan: Blinken BLAMES American citizens for not leaving earlier as CIA start helicopter rescue missions
There are 1,500 Americans still desperate to leave Afghanistan, the State Department announced after numerous critics demanded the Biden administration make the number public. It comes after House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy said the image of Joe Biden turning his back without answering questions on Tuesday would 'define' his presidency and accused him of abandoning Americans and allies in Afghanistan. Fellow Republican lawmakers have said Biden is allowing the Taliban to dictate terms of the evacuation. Thousands of people are still converging on the airport in the Afghan capital hoping to escape the Taliban and amid fears of an attack from the Islamic State offshoot ISIS-K. Biden said he would only pull troops by August 31 if Taliban fighters allow safe passage, but the Taliban has ignored the president's threats and are beating up people trying to leave, according to reports, and both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have said there isn't enough time to get everyone out. The US military also launched a nighttime mission to recover people from outside the airport to bring them inside the NATO-held facility for evacuation, the Pentagon revealed Wednesday.
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I'm alarmed by the administration using language such as those Americans who wish to leave. It sounds like groundwork for claiming that any American left behind wanted to remain. Commonsense dictates that only a minute fraction of people would want to remain behind as a tyrannical regime tightens its noose around an entire society.
I also don't trust the State Department's numbers. But maybe that's just me.