The Pentagon is preparing to evacuate the American Embassy and U.S. citizens in Kabul as the Biden administration braces for a possible collapse of the government within 30 days.
Indeed, the Taliban is aggressively advancing across the north, while Afghan security forces try to defend shrinking territory in the south and west, as reported by the New York Times. Thus, the Department of Defense has no choice but to accelerate evacuation.
On Thursday, the embassy sent an alert, urging Americans to “leave Afghanistan immediately using available commercial flight options.”
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While Afghan security forces have continued fighting in some areas, they’ve been forced to retreat in several northern provincial capitals. The Taliban seized the city of Ghazni, about 90 miles south of Kabul, on Thursday.
A senior Biden administration official said in an interview that the Taliban may soon take Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province and the country’s economic engine, which could lead to a surrender of the Afghan government by September.
Three contingents of Marines are preparing for the potential evacuation, according to officials. A battalion of several hundred is already on the embassy grounds, responsible for evacuating 4,000 employees, including 1,400 Americans.
Additionally, the Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit with over 2,000 Marines into position closer to the air route over western Pakistan.
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All the loss of life of American soldiers and wounding of American soldiers for what? To stay in a place that is largely tribal? The politically correct politicians should have untied the military’s hands, with special forces, destroyed, the heroin farms that these tribal people have, the military should have destroyed the Al Qaeda terrorist camps and then gotten the heck out of there within a year.
While we SHOULD have gone in, IMO WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT RIGHT AFTER bin ladin had been caught and killed… AND NOT STAYED THERE for 20+ years…
More and more, this is looking JUST AS MUCH OF a debacle, as the entire nam and Korean wars were.. MORE SO, because we NEVER BOTHERED LEARNING FROM THE MISTAKES of those two wars…
Next time instead of spending trillions that just end up the same way as Vietman, btter to just use a few cost effective nukes to get the job done quickly. This may sound desperate, but since the Democrats running the USA all turned into Communist/Socialists, America is financially and governMENTALLY being led by men as desperate and optionless as he who runs North Korea.
Anybody want to commit slow suicide? Try holding your breath for the main stream media to broadcast the endless images of the atrocities that will result as a result of Joe Biden’s overt selling out of our Afghan allies . The “me too” crowd should especially take comfort in seeing their candidate ‘s actions result in the rape, torture, maiming and murder of countless women in that country. The message is clear that Biden and his communist party are sending to the world: trust us and you’ll get stabbed in the back.
At least the Afghan people will go down quickly, unlike America which has so many Democrt parasites sucking its life blood the death will be slow and painful.Thanks to guys like Cuomo, clinton and Biden, our women have already been sacrificed on the altar of secualar socialsm.
I highly doubt ANY of those news networks, even fox, will DO A DAMN THING about airing any of those attrosities…
AND I agree with Illuminatuo.. WE should have just GLASSED THAT entire hell hole over…
Everyone who studies such thing knew he would screw it up. Yes, Donald Trump wanted to withdraw with all kinds of contingencies as the unstable situation called for. Joe Biden, without any real plan, he certainly wouldn’t use his predecessor’s, forged ahead like he did with the pipeline and immigration. It’s hard to undo a catastrophe, it’s easier to avoid one but the new President is of the moment without thinking into the future. Perhaps he has already looked ther and found he doesn’t have one!
The gathering of the ISIS clans in open organized assaults is a good opportunity for an exiting carpet bombing campaign to eliminate their leadership and concentrated Taliban troops., but unlike the virus, Joe and the Democrat controlled military skeedadlers, WILL let this crisis opportunity go to waste. Time to check Hunter’s foreign bank accounts to see how much got deposited by the Iranians in Quid Quo Pro.
What carpet bombing? I DOUBT ANY OF the DOD Has the balls to even SUGGEST that to biden and we KNOW HE HAS NOT got hte spine to follow through with any such suggestion!
I think I’ve seen this movie before.
We all have.. Unfortunately.
BUT at least this time, our troops are not coming back, to folks SPITTING IN Their faces..
Don’t bet on it, Ituser, don’t bet on it.
I served from Vietnam till Desert Storm. I remember the liberal kids spitting and hurling insults of “baby killer” (before baby killing became a respected and admired profession in their world”) I suggest that further military action deployed by President “Tug Benson” Biden be restricted solely to his preferred force of homosexuals, transgenders, and manly women.
Well, at least they not YET spitting on the troops.
>> (before baby killing became a respected and admired profession in their world” <<
Nice shot. Nice.