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Afghanistan
Concerns Over Us Terror Threats Rising, More Troops Deployed As Taliban Takes Over [Military Times]
2021-08-16
Posted by:Glolet Sholuse9176

#5  An optimist.

History would lean more Khyber.

Thousands would be a lot of helicopter rides flying a long distance to....where? Uzbekh? Aren't they shooting down flying things?

Some Raid on Entebbe style ad-hoc airfield airlift?

Whatever it takes to secure those LBTBQWERTY flags from the embassy.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-08-16 16:44  

#4  RE #2: See
Anabasis by Xenophon.
Posted by: Cromert   2021-08-16 16:10  

#3  One of my favorite things about this mess is imagining that there's more than one journalist out there shredding his lovingly written "Milley for prexident" story right now.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-16 10:48  

#2  How exactly will the evacuators be evacuated and by whom?
Posted by: Cesare   2021-08-16 09:38  

#1  The coming plague of very swarthy, non-English speaking white supremacists.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-16 08:57  

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