Joe Biden will stick with 31 August withdrawal deadline - Reuters
The US president has agreed with a Pentagon recommendation to stick with his planned withdrawal deadline, despite pressure from NATO allies, an administration official has told Reuters news agency.
However, Mr Biden has asked for contingency plans to be made to stay longer should it be necessary.
US officials will also tell the Taliban that being able to remove troops by next Tuesday will depend on whether the insurgents continue to cooperate.
The Pentagon had recommended the US stick to the initial date because of security risks to American forces at the airport.
UK government officials have previously said British troops will likely need to withdraw at the same time as the US.
Thanks for warning me.
Stop! I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fNBvEotTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1kkzV2C7ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jctCSTgeQ
Biden/Harris are INCOMPETENT IDIOTS.
10K to 40K Americans left behind, 7K Taliban prisoners set free, $85 Billion in equipment left behind, Bagram and all COPS & JCOPS abandoned. Biden/Harris and all those leftist Democrats who voted for them OWN THIS DEBACLE. THEY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON AND PUBLICALLY HANGED!
There was an OPORD and it wasn’t followed. I was in NW Afghanistan for a year as a US Army Combat Infantryman.
1) Get all American civilians out first.
2) Get out all Taliban prisoners (CONAIR).
3) Get out all aircraft, vehicles, and equipment.
4) Get out the Terps who helped us.
5) Get all US Military out.
6) Drop JDAM’s and MOAB’s on ALL our air bases, COPS, and JCOPS (preferably just when the Taliban have moved in).
7) Close down Bagram and all other air bases.
8) Fly away and don’t come back
Have we ever had a operation code named “Debacle” based on the known expected outcome we are seeing?
“Debacle you are a go to begin abandon ops.” “Repeat, you are a go Debacle to surrender to Terrorists.”
Strikes me as not having the same ring to it as “Shock and Awe”.
He’s still trying to force Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King out of the history books as a great speaker and historic leader.
Is this to be the live thread?
Giving pooch a bath, not watching SloJoe.
The Taliban have more credibility than our insufferable demented POTUS.
The 8/31 date will not be extended. Just now on FOX. Biden’s decision.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1429140083291140105
An American woman stranded in Kabul recently claimed that she was whipped by the Taliban and had to witness another man being shot to death while trying to make their way to the airport to flee the war-torn country. Fox News reported that the woman, whose identity has been withheld for security concerns, said there are 20 checkpoints manned by armed Taliban fighters between her location and the Kabul international airport. She is currently in hiding with family members and Afghan allies.
The American woman revealed that she was whipped by an insurgent on her way to the airport, while a man next to her was shot in the head, leaving his wife and child in tears. As she cannot make her way to the airport, she appealed to US President Joe Biden to get her out of Afghanistan, which the Taliban took over on Sunday. “Every moment that a car passes by, I feel like they are going to pull in and execute us. I don’t know if I’m going to see my children again,” she said.
According to the audio recording sent to West Virginia Representative Carol Miller’s office, the woman said that the situation in Afghanistan was “dire, even hopeless”. She alleged that the Taliban militants have been going door-to-door, rounding up people who worked with the US military or NATO. The woman said that she would instead take her own life than be captured by the insurgent group.
The only words I want to hear that bast*rd utter is “I quit”!
Sebastian Gorka DrG
@SebGorka
Just received:
“Biden is hard over that we will have the last military personnel out of Kabul airport NLT 31 August. We may be gone before then. Drawdown could begin within next 72 hours.”