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2021-08-12 Afghanistan
Afghan Ambassador to the US slams Biden for suggesting there is a 'political solution' to Taliban onslaught and begs him to launch air strikes amid fears Kabul will fall within 30 days
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-12 08:14|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 Biden Administration is preparing for Afghanistan capital Kabul to fall to the Taliban in as little as four weeks – despite previously predicting the city would be able to defend itself for a year
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-12 08:58||   2021-08-12 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 It is going to fall anyway, might as well let it now.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-12 09:58||   2021-08-12 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, Joe, you wanted to be POTUS, so good luck with this hellish situation. Maybe you could put Kamala in charge of the problem so she can show her foreign policy chops in advance of 2024. Or maybe Code Pink can vigorously protest the Taliban. Or maybe Extinction Rebellion can chain themselves to the US embassy in Kabul. Or load Antifa onto a C-130 and drop them into the heaviest fighting (parachutes optional).
Posted by Matt 2021-08-12 11:07||   2021-08-12 11:07|| Front Page Top

#4 
Learn, islamics of the world
denounce Allan and his fiery hoofs;
remember Persians, Pashtuns and
assorted pansies thrown from roofs.

Dee-moh-kraatzy's not fer yeh,
just calvin ball forever,
and Shariah shit and burqas...
and Allan, that Indian giver!
Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-12 11:31||   2021-08-12 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL, Dron.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-12 12:05||   2021-08-12 12:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember, American troops are NOT mercenaries, but Patriots serving and trusting that their lives matter and will be spent for just cause. IN 1944, they we asked to go ashore in France to help save the world for democracy and defeat evil.
In 2021, I imagine some Marxist in the Administration is going to ask them to risk their life slowing the fall of Kabul because if makes Bidet look bad....is there any greater proof of how far we have fallen in out betrayal of those serving now?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-12 12:07||   2021-08-12 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Haven't quite fallen as far as the Romans.
Not killing Generals, yet.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-12 14:01||   2021-08-12 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't we see this movie back in the mid 70's?

Didn't end well.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-12 14:09||   2021-08-12 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 several thousand American deaths

tens of thousands of Afghan military deaths

billions of $ in military equipment and billions more in civilian infrastructure

and post Taliban victory, an population in captivity

nothing good
Posted by lord garth 2021-08-12 14:23||   2021-08-12 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe you could put Kamala in charge of the problem so she can show her foreign policy chops in advance of 2024.

A genius idea - at least as long as she physically goes there. She could do a lot of good. Not in terms of making the situation better, but in terms of supplying comic relief for us folks back home. Think of the confusion, misstatements and general inept buffoonery! It might even be a reason to watch the news again. Or not. Probably not.
Posted by SteveS 2021-08-12 14:33||   2021-08-12 14:33|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ She could get a picture taken of her riding in a tank and looking stern. It worked for Dukakis.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-12 15:14||   2021-08-12 15:14|| Front Page Top

#12 just looking thru some numbers

of the 2350+ military fatalities in Afghanistan,

about 1700 were during Biden's VP days
Posted by lord garth 2021-08-12 15:47||   2021-08-12 15:47|| Front Page Top

#13 News says US Marines being sent to secure the Embassy. Saigon REDUX visuals coming for Bidet as our 20 yr graft-filled investment in the Afghan Army folds far faster than the ARVN troops back then, many of whom were heroic if doomed. What really pisses me off is we just equipped the entire Taliban with a semi-modern force, most of which will end up sold out of Pakistan and elsewhere...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-12 15:54||   2021-08-12 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 There's a plan to put rotary cannon on B-1s. Do it. Then make being on any part of the Afghan border a deadly proposition. Cordon sanitare.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-12 17:23||   2021-08-12 17:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Cordon sanitaire
Medicine
A cordon sanitaire is the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, region, or country. The term originally denoted a barrier used to stop the spread of infectious diseases.

Sort of defines the World at this point in time.
Posted by Enver Cleans4142 2021-08-12 17:38||   2021-08-12 17:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Taliban back in charge by 9/11. Boosh legacy.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-12 18:02||   2021-08-12 18:02|| Front Page Top

#17 Coup de Grace would be another Karzai term.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-12 18:43||   2021-08-12 18:43|| Front Page Top

#18 New York City, the Pentagon, and a supposedly a plane headed to slam into the White House was coordinated from there. Just sayin.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-12 19:59||   2021-08-12 19:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Right when everyone thinks Biden has lost Afghanistan to the Taliban I expect 100,000+ Taliban to be killed overnight and Biden will be declared the winner of Afghanistan the next day.
Posted by Airandee 2021-08-12 20:27||   2021-08-12 20:27|| Front Page Top

#20 Ref 18 above, I never had a problem ARC lighting the crap out of AQ and the Afghan mutts who allowed them to fester. My problem was staying as if we owed fhem a rescue from their cultural/religious miasma. Bush 43 was not the hard man that was needed.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-12 20:52||   2021-08-12 20:52|| Front Page Top

#21 He (Bush) was insufficiently ruthless.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-12 21:57||   2021-08-12 21:57|| Front Page Top

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