Posted on 08/14/2021 3:21:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Biden on Saturday authorized the deployment of 5,000 troops to Afghanistan amid a U.S. pullout that has emboldened the Taliban to take over multiple cities.
"I have authorized the deployment of approximately 5,000 US troops to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel and an orderly and safe evacuation of Afghans who helped our troops during our mission and those at special risk from the Taliban advance," Biden said in a statement.
“I have ordered our armed forces and our intelligence community to ensure that we will maintain the capability and the vigilance to address future terrorist threats from Afghanistan," he said.
Biden on Saturday warned the Taliban that any actions that put U.S. personnel at risk "will be met with a swift and strong US military response."
The United States will, at the same time, pursue a political settlement to the bloodshed, he said.
Ambassador Tracey Jacobson has been placed in charge of the U.S. effort to relocate Afghan special immigrant visa applicants and other Afghan allies, the president said.
"Our hearts go out to the brave Afghan men and women who are now at risk," he said. "We are working to evacuate thousands of those who helped our cause and their families."
The president's actions came as the Taliban captured Mazar-e-Sharif, a key city in the north of Afghanistan.
The first American troops began what the Pentagon described as a limited mission to evacuate American embassy workers.
Absolutely... And like I say it is all bipartisan. Pelosi, Feinstein, Schiff, Schummer, and many others are very invested in the war machine.
“I am a legally ordained minister from way back... “
So am I. Got it for $5 from an ad I saw in Rolling Stone back in ‘79 IIRC. And the fact that you’re ordained has nothing to do with your knowledge of the Bible.
God commanded David to kill every living thing. Go ahead and read it for yourself. Or continue to wallow in your ignorance.
I don’t care which one you pick.
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Once again... That was written by a man... Not God.
Those words are so true. You know it. I know it. Biden's puppet masters know it. Crisis is such an effective catalyst for change that the left plans the crisis. First we had the plandemic. The stolen election. The border crisis. Now Afghanistan. These are planned. These are not some natural events or acts of God type crisis. They are planned and they already know how to take advantage of it.
You think man wrote the Bible?
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YES... Are you so behind you do not know this???
You might do some homework on the true history concerning the writing of the bible. And why much of it has been omitted and hidden.
Thanks for the thread.
Prayers for our soldiers who are facing a dangerous situation uncertain that their CinC is capable of backing them up.
“My Fuhrer, Steiner didn’t have enough force. The attack didn’t take place.”
Reportedly from Kabul last night.
(Volume up) pic.twitter.com/tRcbh4MZ6b— JΞRICHθ ✦ ŦΔSΚΞR (@j3r1ch0t45k3r) August 15, 2021
A better distraction would be to send in a brigade of Nubian milk goats.
Go hump someone else’s leg.
I’m done with you.
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$770,000,000. Gone in a few days.
Too bad. It could have become a monument to monumental stupidity and arrogance.
Now it will become a hole in the ground.
You don’t even hide your anti-christian anti-biblical viewpoint. Free Republic is a Pro-God website. What are you doing here other than openly trolling?
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Thanks. Idk what I saw! 😂😂😂
“Epic failure coming up, folks.”
In progress.
Send in the All American 1st Cavalry Amazon Battalion /Rush Limbaugh>
Why can’t we drop a couple of nukes as a parting gift? They don’t have to be our biggest. Just enough to say fuckkk you.
The idea is not to kill Afghanis. Most are probably very peace loving people if we met then at the grocery store or as neighbors.
The Nuke or something to that effect is a staunch warning to never launch terrorist attacks on us again.
Our inept war planning and strategy has made the Talibsn very powerful and I fear what they have planned once they take over. They believe in full scale retaliation.
Glad I am not there.
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