In before usual freeper lack of empathy scolds
Evacs from war zone capitulations are tough
Just one week ago brass said Kabul would hold till Christmas
I show as much empathy towards journalists as journalists show towards me.
I'll go first.
Why in the world would a parent bring an infant to a hell hole?
He still could have sent his wife and daughter on as conditions have a way of changing unexpectedly. It’s not like the Taliban were holding back any punches, but apparently the administration that was in control certainly was.
Yeah, they’ll hold on...to prison bars, if they are lucky.
What idiots take their baby to a war zone? Oh, yeah, it's Pedro and his wife. It's been a war zone for the past decade so it's not like they didn't have fair warning. As a journalist (reporters have long since gone by the wayside), he should have seen things revving up but he doesn't love his family enough to have sent them out long before.
We didn’t PLAN for the withdrawal. SecDef is so busy looking for white supremacists under his bed that no one PLANNED for this!
I knew when I left Afghanistan that the Taliban would take over extremely fast when we left - UNLESS we took measures to slow them. That was 15 years ago. Things like having supply and evacuation routes in place, forces to hold evacuation points, air support for the Afghan Army AFTER we left (we screwed Vietnam the same way).
It takes planning and pre-positioning troops and supplies to allow an orderly retreat under fire - which is what this was always going to turn into. But Gen Milley (sp?) is too busy chasing conservatives out of the military. The bastards would rather fight REPUBLICANS than the TALIBAN!
I’m not lacking empathy when I ask....Why in the hell would anyone have an 11 month old child there?
But, I might be able to give you some insight on the mentality of some of these folks like this journalist. And one thing that folks need to keep in mind, that no matter how many boogers the Taliban eats, or how much dirt they eat, their leadership is savvy in more ways than one. They know how to use the media and manipulate the message. They’ve had decades to perfect their craft and only got better in the last 20.
Now the Taliban is on Twitter. A former American President isn’t allowed on there, but the Taliban is.
Anywho.....
the journalist have lived in Kabul for years, right? And up until very recently, who was protecting Kabul? The US military. When rockets or mortars were launched it was the US military sending counter battery to the launch sites.
And when they weren’t out and about, with their blue helmets and plate carriers trying to get a story, they were in Kabul, nice and cozy, going to restaurants, going to parties at the various embassies and consulates, getting drunk, having a grand ol’ time.
How’d they do that? How did they live in fantasy land? Because the 82nd Airborne, 10th Mountain Div, 1st Marine Division, or any other element of Infantryman and all their support units were there to keep the peace.
None of them gave a thought to the 19yr old kid from Kansas, that was in an Infantry squad walking patrols outside the city.
I saw them all day, every day at the embassy in Baghdad. Liquor stores abound. Parties every night at this embassy or that embassy. Lying by the many pools and having a grand ol’ time.
Meanwhile, kids from the US were running missions in the middle of the night trying to find the bad guys.
No sympathy for anyone dumb enough to stay there. But I do have some sympathy for the 11 month old that was born to two idiot parents.
The Taliban has been taking that country for weeks, if you didn’t have the smarts to say, at least, let me get my wife and child out of here. Oh well.
OK, I can understand the mentality of combat jouralists. But who would keep their wife and infant daughter in a war zone with them? I don’t remember the jouralists having dependents in Saigon in the last few weeks.
“In before usual freeper lack of empathy scolds”
Well, its over one hundred so I guess its okay NOW!
What a maroon! Sorry, no pity for IDIOTS!
Afghanistan? The roadside bombs and RPGs are so beautiful this time of year.
Feel “sorry” for your 11 month old who you have put in GRAVE danger!
WHAT were you thinking.... I know, you weren’t!
How does it go? Stupid is as stupid does.
Let me phrase it this way.
Who in their right mind would bring their wife to Afghanistan with them?
Or their wife and child?
Or get their wife pregnant while in Afghanistan?