U.S. troops’ return to Afghanistan has ominous parallel to recent history in Iraq

[yota691]

U.S. troops’ return to Afghanistan has ominous parallel to recent history in Iraq
People crowd onto and surround a vehicle in the street
Taliban fighters stand on a vehicle Friday along the roadside in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which the militant group now controls. (AFP/Getty Images )
BY TRACY WILKINSON, NABIH BULOS
AUG. 13, 2021 5:34 PM PT
WASHINGTON — As the Afghan capital, Kabul, teetered in the face of a relentless onslaught by Taliban forces, the first contingents of U.S. Marines tasked with rescuing Americans and others were set to arrive in Afghanistan over the weekend, administration officials said Friday.
The urgency of the new mission was underlined by fierce Taliban advances that have startled the world as diplomats face rising regional instability and a widening humanitarian crisis. By Friday, the Taliban, who are seizing U.S.-funded military equipment as they roll seemingly unchallenged across the landscape, had captured Afghanistan’s second- and third-largest cities and most national territory.

The arrival of 3,000 troops will more than double the number of U.S. forces in the battered country after the long -promised withdrawal to end America’s longest war had proceeded apace and was scheduled to conclude by September.
Analysts said it was possible the Taliban will wait to attack Kabul — in part because of the U.S. presence and also because the Islamic extremists can probably lay siege to, isolate and starve the city by cutting off most of its land exit routes. Unlike other Afghan cities, Kabul also has an enormous population of some 6 million people, swollen in recent days by those fleeing other parts of the country.

 

“We have noted with great concern the speed with which they have been moving and the lack of resistance they have faced,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Friday. He said that Kabul was not in an “imminent threat environment” but that the Taliban is “clearly” trying to isolate it.

Pentagon and State Department officials continue to insist the U.S. Embassy is not shutting down completely, despite the fact most employees are likely to depart, leaving only a skeleton staff. Employees are reportedly being ordered to begin destroying sensitive embassy files, and there are plans, still not finalized, to move the entire embassy operation into Kabul’s fortified Hamid Karzai International Airport.

The alarming events in Afghanistan had echo in the United States’ 15-plus years of war in Iraq. In both cases, civilian and military commanders arguably lost sight of their missions’ original strategic goals and overstayed their effectiveness. In the case of Iraq, U.S. troops had to return three years after their withdrawal to fight a new enemy, Islamic State, while in Afghanistan the last soldier had yet to leave before the threat came roaring back.

The Taliban’s swift victories over the last week indicate that, like in Iraq, U.S. training and plans for civil freedoms and democracy are often trumped by corruption, tribal instincts at self preservation, and the outright fear Islamists militants can incite with stonings, beheadings and other cruelties.

On Friday, the Taliban snatched Logar, a small provincial capital some 30 miles outside Kabul, the seat of power for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his government.

It was a small but significant victory in an advance that has brought more than half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals under Taliban control; that includes Kandahar, its second-largest city and the militant group’s birthplace.

In Kabul, panic appears to have set in, with reports that high-level officials such as Vice President Amrullah Saleh have fled the country amid rumors that Ghani will resign.

“From the second half of the Trump administration to now, we have been encouraging Taliban morale and discouraging the morale of the Afghan government,” Earl Anthony Wayne, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said in explaining the speed with which the Taliban advanced.

The Taliban were buttressed when President Trump’s envoys agreed last year to sit down in Doha, Qatar, with their representatives, the first time a U.S. government had done so. But it cut out the Afghan government, which felt marginalized. That was underscored when one of the U.S.-Taliban agreements forced the Afghan government to release some 5,000 Taliban prisoners — many of whom are fighting today.

Except for geography, the resurgence of the Taliban and the rise of Islamic State read as if the same disturbing story of U.S. intervention. At its inception, the Islamic State resembled the Taliban of late. Racing through the rugged Mideast terrain in August 2014 atop weathered Toyota pickups, the Islamic militants scythed through one city, then another, and another still. Whole army units — all paid for and trained by the U.S. — disintegrated.

Islamic State blitzed through wide swaths of Syria and Iraq, commandeering a full third of each country for what it claimed was its caliphate. And the United States, three years after its last soldier had withdrawn from Baghdad, returned to a war it thought it had left behind.

In Afghanistan, the question is if it will have the chance to leave in the first place. The Taliban, the Islamist Afghan group that the U.S. came to defeat after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has arguably never been stronger.

Its resurgence, much like that of Islamic State in 2014, has seen it take over — with astonishing ease — areas it could never hope to breach in the past. The Taliban now has its knife to the government’s neck.

As in Afghanistan, it was war weariness that had pushed then-President Obama to withdraw from Iraq in 2011. In a ceremony to mark the departure of the last remaining U.S. troops in December of that year, although it wasn’t “perfect,” Obama said, “we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.”

But by mid-2014, with Islamic State scooping up millions of dollars of materiel — Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers, some 2,300 Humvees — and turning its sights to Baghdad, Obama had to justify the use of military power once more in Iraq to lead an international coalition against the militants. That campaign — although winding down — continues to this day.

In Afghanistan, the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), which the U.S. supported to the tune of a trillion dollars over two decades, has been far more jarring than the experience with their Iraqi counterparts in 2014, for whom it took three years to gather force.

In just a little over a week, an Afghan government force with 300,000 soldiers on the books has ceded territory to an adversary less than a third of its size. Government soldiers have surrendered en masse, bequeathing the militants thousands of trucks, dozens of armored vehicles, antiaircraft guns, artillery and mortars, seven helicopters (seven others were destroyed) and a number of ScanEagle drones.

The approach toward Kabul triggered Biden’s decision Thursday to dispatch the 3,000 soldiers and Marines. In addition to helping evacuate parts of the embassy, the troops will speed up the transport out of Afghanistan of interpreters who worked with American military and diplomatic missions and would risk death under the Taliban because of their U.S. affiliation.

Urgency distinguished the Afghanistan scenario today from Iraq in the 2010s.

“Panic withstanding, Islamic State did not threaten the capital” of Baghdad, said Ryan Crocker, a former ambassador to both countries. “It was pretty clear that IS would be at its full extension by Fallujah,” 40 miles west of Baghdad.

A tactic both governments resorted to as they faced Islamic forces was to call on local militias to join in their defense. There were very different consequences. In Iraq, those militias were backed by Iran, lived on to fight another day, and now menace U.S. forces still there. In Afghanistan, Ghani put out the call, and few local militias responded or were able to muster a defense.

In Iraq, eventually 6,000 U.S. troops were redeployed to dismantle the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate. Pentagon officials now say the new Afghanistan operation, which is also sending 3,000 troops to Qatar to provide backup, is limited and narrowly defined.

Kirby from the Pentagon refused to describe the new push as a combat mission. “We’re all mindful of the perilous situation in Afghanistan and the deteriorating security situation,” Kirby said. The troops will be fully equipped, armed and have the right to attack in broadly defined self-defense, he said.

“If we need to adjust either way, left or right, we’ll do that,” he added.

But veteran diplomats and region-watchers warn of how perilous deeper involvement can be.

“We cannot let ourselves get trapped as the defenders of the capital and saviors of millions of Afghans,” Crocker said. “We’d be risking a Beirut-style situation.” He was referring to a deployment into Lebanon of U.S. Marines that stayed beyond its original mission and was attacked by suicide bombers. In the 1983 attack, 241 Marines were killed.

Other observers thought U.S. forces could avoid getting sucked into an unending Afghanistan morass.

“I don’t see a world in which we go back to Afghanistan,” said a retired U.S. military officer who fought in both countries. He asked for anonymity because he continues to work on policy issues with government agencies.

“Iraq matters in a way that Afghanistan just doesn’t. We went back to Iraq because Iraq borders all these countries we care about” — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Turkey — “and I don’t think we care very much about Pakistan or Iran, at least in a positive sense.”

Wilkinson reported from Washington and Bulos from Beirut.

[Sage449]

Alarming yes, and yet somehow there is no relief for Afghanistan.  At one point my old company worked there and the attitude was welcoming by the everyday people living there. We did major improvements in infrastructure including clean water, electricity,  waste water, schools & hospitals.  And now to hear that Kabul is near being run over, returning to pre-US status is sad and have sympathy for the locals that don't want the Taliban. The general population is just as tired of the Taliban as we are.

[DoD]

20 minutes ago, Sage449 said:

Very true Sage, it’s a shame that a country like Afghanistan has nothing to offer the world but heroin and terrorist are the only people who want to own it. 
They have no government and the military is a bunch of gutless cowards. 
There has been way to many American lives lost in that wasteland for us to stay there. Iran will set up their own terrorist network in that god forsaken country because the world knows now that the country of Afghanistan is a failed and hopeless state….

[yota691]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resigns in preparation for handing over power to the Taliban

08.15.2021 - 14:23

 

 

  

Baghdad - people  

Media reported that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani submitted his resignation from his position, against the background of the entry of "Taliban" militants to the outskirts of the capital, Kabul.  

 

  

  

Ghani asked the government forces, according to these means (August 15, 2021), to "control law and order" in the capital, Kabul, against the background of news of his resignation.  

This request came in a call that Ghani made today, Sunday, with the employees of the security services regarding ensuring the security of the residents of Kabul, and the Afghan presidency published the recording of this call on its Twitter account.  

  

  

Meanwhile, media reports say that Ghani will submit his resignation today, against the backdrop of the entry of "Taliban" militants to the outskirts of Kabul and the launch of talks on forming a transitional government in the country.  

And the American network "CNN" confirmed that a number of high-ranking officials in the US government, including a number of Ghani's advisers, arrived at Kabul airport in preparation for their evacuation from the country.  

[DoD]

3 hours ago, yota691 said:

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resigns in preparation for handing over power to the Taliban

 

 

  

  

Good Morning yota and thanks for the articles on this subject. 
All the years I worked in Afghanistan was a waste, I can only imagine what our military thinks about this. 
I wonder what all our liberal friends think of the terrorist starting to retake the region….
 

[CSM (R) Thack]

13 minutes ago, DoD said:

Good Morning yota and thanks for the articles on this subject. 
All the years I worked in Afghanistan was a waste, I can only imagine what our military thinks about this. 
I wonder what all our liberal friends think of the terrorist starting to retake the region….
 

This chaps my a$$…Straight up Bullsh-t!!! 👍🇺🇸

[bamastorm]

This burns my ass too,  On June 28, 2005 I lost my bother. He was shot down by the Taliban on a rescue mission of a Navy Seal team.  All of the American blood that was spilled in that country for nothing!

[yota691]

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[yota691]

Afghanistan..again

Sunday 15 August 2021 163

 

Mohammed Saleh Sedkian 

The domino patches are falling one after the other in Afghanistan, revealing a new fragility of what the Americans have built during 20 years. In fact, the US forces did not build a school, a hospital, or a street, but rather said that they wanted to eliminate terrorism, specifically the annoying trio of Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIS after they destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.

She also said that she had worked to train an army that could defend the gains it had made in Afghanistan. She also said that she had made efforts to establish a new generation in Afghanistan capable of confronting the extremist ideas of the "Taliban" and to support a political system that was capable and suitable to accommodate the various partisan currents and tribes and to represent them fairly in state institutions. I don't know if any of that has been checked? If it is achieved, all of it is now subject to collapse with the return of the extremist ideology, which belongs to extremist ideas and theories, to control Afghanistan. 

Everyone is now concerned about the rapid developments taking place in Afghanistan. Some say that the coming weeks will witness the fall of the capital, Kabul; But my information speaks of the clinical death of this capital in the sense that it is on the precipice of falling into the hands of the Taliban and that it does not need Taliban elements to enter it from the outside, as it stands 50 kilometers away from it, but it will fall into the hands of the sleeper cells in Kabul twenty years ago. It is waiting for the zero hour and it is undoubtedly coming.

What worries the Afghan people, who have not calmed down for four decades; What worries the neighboring countries is the lack of knowledge of the course of these developments; How will the Taliban deal with the citizens? How do you deal with the rest of the parties, factions and components? How do you deal with the elements of the army and the Afghan military establishment, which was built during the past two decades? What are the outcomes of the agreement concluded between the American side with the Taliban in the Qatari capital, Doha, through the American representative, Zalmay Khalilzad? Above all, is the 2021 Taliban the same as the 2000 Taliban? These and other questions may not be able to find ready-made answers due to the complexity of the situation and developments.

I don't know if US President Joe Biden was right to remove his hand from this country, claiming that the job of the United States is not to decide the future of Afghanistan on behalf of its people? But what I know is that the withdrawal of US forces in the manner that took place does not send a reassuring message to America's allies that it stands with them, even if it conflicts with its own interests. I also know that it sent a message with clear meanings that it does not see any shame in leaving the battlefields to its opponents “if the Taliban is an adversary” to benefit from it and use their influence in it at the expense of America’s interests and against its opponents, and if we let the Afghan people face their fate with the Taliban; Neighboring countries are closely monitoring the situation because all possibilities do not serve regional security, which affects the security of these countries.

I do not think that the US envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, who is of Afghan descent, can persuade the Taliban to partner with the rest of the factions in the administration of the state, after they took control of the land and rolled dominoes one after the other in favor of the Taliban. Government figures participating in the dialogue in Doha believe that the Taliban controls the Afghan provinces with a green light from the American side, as the real force that can control Afghanistan; While regional circles believe that the Taliban’s control is intended to embarrass all neighboring countries, and therefore the relationship that Washington has built with the Taliban movement since the start of the Doha Dialogue two years ago may be able to achieve American interests, especially since these countries are “China; Russia; Iran; India; Uzbekistan; Turkmenistan.” She does not have enviable relations with the United States. The weakest link in these countries is Iran, because it cannot absorb more immigrants, as happened in the nineties of the last century, when it embraced 4 million Afghans on its lands. Now the situation has changed in light of economic distress and the "Corona pandemic", and therefore it hopes to succeed with the Taliban in persuading them to a political settlement in Kabul that can stand up to any political tension or security slide that does not serve all parties concerned with the Afghan issue.

[yota691]

Afghanistan is rapidly collapsing and falling prey to the Taliban

Sunday 15 August 2021 154

 

 Kabul: agencies

The rapid collapse of the Afghan army, which consists of 300,000 soldiers, in front of the "Taliban" movement raised astonishment and questions around the world, once the American forces were withdrawn, despite the billions of dollars that the United States and the West spent on its rehabilitation and training.

 

On Saturday, the British newspaper, The Telegraph, published a report stating that the West had pumped huge sums of money into the rehabilitation of Afghan forces over the past years, and that America alone had spent $88 billion, believing that this would enable the Afghan government to rely on itself against the Taliban. Allows members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "NATO" to withdraw permanently.

The report added that the rapid defeat of the Afghan forces was a surprise to the elements of the "Taliban" movement themselves, and the catastrophic failure of the Afghan army and their supporters shocked and frustrated.

The newspaper quoted Colonel Idris Attay, a commander in the Afghan army, as saying: "He does not see any strategy for war, our forces have been misused during the past years, and those who do not deserve to be appointed to leadership positions, so today we are in this chaos."

He also expressed his anger at the West's decision to strike a deal with the Taliban, saying it gives "legitimacy and confidence to the terrorists", which he spent his career fighting against. "We carried out the mission shoulder to shoulder with the foreigners, and we agreed that the Taliban are terrorists. We fought them for 20 years, but they went and made a deal with the terrorists that we were fighting together. They gave them political legitimacy and handed them our future," Attay said.

The report pointed out that "the spread of corruption and poor leadership caused heavy losses, while soldiers complain about not getting their salaries, food and ammunition, and poorly treating the wounded." The will of soldiers and policemen to fight."

"In the end, I think we tried to make this war our war, not theirs. We sent 100,000 coalition troops into the war with the support of small numbers of Afghan forces, it's a completely wrong approach, they should have been counted on from the start," he added.

US President Joe Biden announced, last Tuesday, that "the country has spent more than a thousand billion dollars in 20 years, to train and equip more than 300,000 Afghan soldiers."

"President Biden's view is that Afghan forces should now use the training that has been provided to them," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, stressing that the administration cannot afford to be "disappointed" with the results of the Afghan military's military action.

The frequency of confrontations between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants has escalated, coinciding with the start of the withdrawal of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in early May, which is scheduled to be completed by September 11.

On the other hand, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stressed that reorganizing the security and defense forces is his top priority, indicating that he will not let twenty years of achievements go to waste.

The Afghan "Taliban" movement announced its control of the city of Sharana, the capital of the eastern province of Paktika, to be the center of the 18th province that fell to the movement. 

The Taliban now controls half of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals and controls more than two-thirds of the country. The Western-backed government in the capital, Kabul, still controls a few districts in the center and east, as well as the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

[yota691]

In the video.. Chaos at Kabul airport and thousands attempt to flee
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[dinarbeleiver]

Biden should resign over this. He is a complete disgrace and has shown just how dangerous and incompetent he is. What’s happening in Afghanistan is making the USA look weak what a mess and total embarrassment 

Edited August 16, 2021 by dinarbeleiver

[shixjr]

So, if Biden resigns, who are we left with?

[horsesoldier]

2 hours ago, shixjr said:

So, if Biden resigns, who are we left with?

Harris the Laughing Hyena....some choice huh.

[Artitech]

3 hours ago, shixjr said:

So, if Biden resigns, who are we left with?

a complete moron!! 

[Fimum]

Saigon April 1975 all over again. Yet, Joe told us in July that the Taliban was not the North Vietnamese Army...

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-afghan-pullout-taliban/2021/08/13/73837d0a-fb98-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html

[Sage449]

Botched Afghanistan withdrawal gives Biden biggest crisis of his presidency | Joe Biden | The Guardian

 

Botched Afghanistan withdrawal gives Biden biggest crisis of his presidency

• President to address nation Monday afternoon
• Taliban’s lightning offensive a political gift to Republicans
• US politics – live coverage

Marine One lands in front of the National War College as Joe Biden arrives at Fort McNair in Washington DC on Monday. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

David Smith in Washington

@smithinamerica

Mon 16 Aug 2021 13.56 EDT

Joe Biden was facing the biggest crisis of his presidency on Monday after the stunning fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban caught his administration flat-footed and raised fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.

 

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Recriminations were under way in Washington over the chaotic retreat from Kabul, which one Biden opponent described as “the embarrassment of a superpower laid low”.

Bowing to pressure, officials said the president would leave his country retreat, Camp David, to address the nation from the White House on Monday afternoon.

The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, ending two decades of a failed experiment to import western-style liberal democracy. Diplomatic staff were flown to safety but thousands of Afghans who worked with US forces were stranded and at risk of deadly reprisals.

As harrowing scenes played out on television – including desperate Afghans clinging to a US transport plane before takeoff – the White House scrambled to explain how the government collapsed so quickly.

Last month Biden, pointing to the Afghan military’s superior numbers and technology, predicted: “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”

Unrepentant, the president issued a statement on Saturday, insisting the sudden withdrawal had been the only possible choice.

But the response by Biden, who ran for election promising unrivalled foreign policy credentials after 36 years in the Senate and eight as Barack Obama’s vice-president, was jarring to many. A headline in the Washington Post read: “Defiant and defensive, a president known for empathy takes a cold-eyed approach to Afghanistan debacle.”

The botched withdrawal and the Taliban’s lightning offensive also threw a political gift to Republicans. Many drew comparisons to the humiliating departure of US forces from Saigon in Vietnam in 1975.

Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, said: “What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary. It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history!”

Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, described it as “a shameful failure of American leadership” and warned that “the likelihood that al-Qaida will return to plot attacks from Afghanistan is growing”.

He added: “A proud superpower has been reduced to hoping the Taliban will not interfere with our efforts to flee Afghanistan. God knows what fate awaits vulnerable Afghans who cannot make it to Kabul to board one of the final flights out. Terrorists and major competitors like China are watching the embarrassment of a superpower laid low.”

But such criticism was undercut by the fact that Trump struck a deal with the Taliban last year, seeking to pull forces out even earlier and even to invite the militants to Camp David while snubbing the Afghan government. Democrats accused Trump and his allies of trying to “rewrite history”.

Liz Cheney, a Republican member of the House armed services committee, acknowledged to CBS: “In the Trump administration the agreement that was negotiated, Secretary [of state Mike] Pompeo negotiated, actually was a surrender agreement … We never should have done that, but President Biden never should have withdrawn forces.”

Ben Sasse, a Republican senator for Nebraska and fellow Trump critic, wrote in the National Review: “The sad thing is, many in my party are trying to blame-shift as if the last administration didn’t set us on this course. Here’s the ugly truth: neither party is serious about foreign policy … President Trump pioneered the strategy of retreat President Biden is pursuing, to disastrous effect.”

Sasse joined some commentators in arguing that America had achieved a stalemate preferable to the current disaster. But others suggested Biden’s only options were to withdraw or escalate in a no-win situation.

Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a Democratic member of the Senate foreign relations committee, said: “Our 20-year, trillion-plus-dollar nation-building campaign, crippled by design flaws, cannot continue. I know this is hard for the foreign policy establishment in Washington to accept, but staying another year or five years or 10 years wouldn’t have changed that.

“At the very least, I hope this tragedy allows US policymakers and military leaders to finally learn a lesson about the hubris of sending our military to far-off places to try and build modern armies and democratic governments in our mould.”

Polls have long shown strong public support for ending America’s longest war. Images of atrocities and refugees might shift some opinions, although foreign policy rarely proves decisive at the ballot box. Afghanistan has received comparatively little media coverage over the past two decades.

Gil Barndollar, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities and a veteran who deployed to Afghanistan twice, told reporters: “I hate to be a cynic here but I suspect that for most Americans, with maybe the partial exception of those of us who served there, it is going to be forgotten pretty quickly.

“We never cared that much in the first place, even at the height of this, when we had a hundred thousand troops there; a lot of Americans weren’t really aware of that. So I suspect this is going to be largely water under the bridge fairly quickly, as dispiriting as that is as a citizen of the republic.”

Benjamin Friedman, policy director at Defense Priorities, said: “It’s a Beltway thing to be very focused on what’s happening in Afghanistan. It makes sense given the dramatic events there but I don’t think that there’s evidence that the American public is deeply mortified by this or that it will hurt Biden politically.

“Maybe I’m wrong, but it remains the case that the American public remains overwhelmingly in support of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and withdrawal, therefore, will be beneficial politically to Biden, slightly … people tend to overestimate how long our memories are for events.”

Such views echoed a tweet by Ruben Gallego, an Iraq war veteran and Democratic congressman, who posted: “I haven’t gotten one constituent call about [Afghanistan] and my district has a large veteran population.”

[Artitech]

1 hour ago, Fimum said:

Saigon April 1975 all over again. Yet, Joe told us in July that the Taliban was not the North Vietnamese Army...

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-afghan-pullout-taliban/2021/08/13/73837d0a-fb98-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html

That right there shows a complete dumbA$$ he is! The VC had inferior Chinese weapons! The taliban now have top of the line US weapons that the Army and Air Force were ordered to leave behind without destroying the weapons and aircraft! Which I’m sure the Chinese and Russians have in their possession now! Biden needs to be charged with treason! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what his no good piece of $hi+ son, Hunter was selling the Chinese!!! This just makes me sick to my stomach! JMHO 

[Monkndad]

4 hours ago, horsesoldier said:

Harris the Laughing Hyena....some choice huh.

Talk about incompetent. We all know how she handled the border crisis. Guess you just have to wish a crisis gone.

[Rochester]

Reading all your comments, yeah but look on the bright side of things: even Democrats are having a hard time sweeping this under the rug, even they are admitting complete incompetence. So Americans are uniting behind the realization this President is a dud. Here comes 2024:

[yota691]

The Security Council calls in a statement to end the conflict in Afghanistan through a comprehensive political settlement

•  Time: 08/16/2021 20:23:54
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{International: Al Furat News} The UN Security Council called, on Monday evening, for an immediate cessation of all hostilities in Afghanistan.

 

In the final statement following a session held on Monday to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, the Council stated that: "Ending the conflict in Afghanistan will be through a comprehensive political settlement, and an immediate cessation of hostilities must be worked out."
The Council called for "the formation of a new Afghan government through negotiations, characterized by unity, inclusiveness and inclusion of women, and that all parties in Afghanistan must allow the unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid."
He stressed: "The importance of combating terrorism in Afghanistan to ensure that its territory is not used to threaten or attack any country," calling on the Afghan parties "to abide by international human rights standards, stop all abuses and violations, and end the conflict in Afghanistan through a comprehensive political settlement."

Wafaa Al-Fatlawi

[Artitech]

42 minutes ago, Rochester said:

Reading all your comments, yeah but look on the bright side of things: even Democrats are having a hard time sweeping this under the rug, even they are admitting complete incompetence. So Americans are uniting behind the realization this President is a dud. Here comes 2024:

He’s worse than a dud!  He’s  a traitor!  Hopefully  this disaster will bring out, who is really pulling the strings in this regime!! There is a sophisticated group of traitors that was able to pull off a coup with our election process! Biden and Harris are just stooges that are being used by a group of traitors bent on destroying our constitution and bill of rights! If these DemoRats are able to Nationalize the election process through these bills they are introducing, we will never be able to get our country back! JMHO 

[yota691]

15-member UN Security Council holds emergency meet on Afghanistan | Taliban captures Kabul | World
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[yota691]

Kabul airport overwhelmed amid evacuations of Afghans after Taliban's siege in country | Afghanistan
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[Artitech]

53 minutes ago, yota691 said:

Kabul airport overwhelmed amid evacuations of Afghans after Taliban's siege in country | Afghanistan
1,278,951 viewsAug 15, 2021

All I seen in the pictures at the airport was all cowardly men trying to be the 1st rat to jump ship! Me personally didn’t see any women are children with this fighting age men trying to load on the Air Force transport jet when it landed! We don’t need anymore cowards in our country. JMHO