Northern Afghanistan Falls to Taliban While Joe Biden Vacations at Camp David

[jimnyc]

Security and safety should have been priority #1.

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Last Major City in Northern Afghanistan Falls to Taliban While Joe Biden Vacations at Camp David

As part of "Biden's Worst Week as President Yet," the president left Washington, D.C. on Thursday for Delaware, and then headed to Camp David.

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The situation appears to be going far from safe, though. People are desperate to get out of there.

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According to live updates from The New York Times, Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban on Saturday night.

From the update:


KABUL, Afghanistan — The last major city in northern Afghanistan fell to the Taliban on Saturday night, marking the complete loss of the country’s north to the Taliban as the insurgents appear on the verge of a full military takeover.

The collapse of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province and one of the last three major cities that had remained under government control, comes just a day after two key cities in southern and western Afghanistan were lost to the Taliban.

The Taliban seized the last northern holdout city barely an hour after breaking through the front lines at the city’s edge. Soon after, government security forces and militias fled — including those led by the infamous warlords Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Muhammad Noor — effectively handing control to the insurgents.

“Government forces and popular uprisings all left the city,” said Hashim Ahmadzai, a pro-government militia commander. “The Taliban seized government and military buildings. There was no resistance.”

The insurgents now effectively control the southern, western and northern regions of the country — just about encircling the country’s capital, Kabul, as they press on in their rapid military offensive. The Taliban blitz began in May, but the insurgents have managed to seize more than half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals in just over a week.

Rest - https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/08/14/president-joe-biden-is-relaxing-at-camp-david-while-afghanistan-falls-apart-n2594154

[jimnyc]

Which all of course...

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Afghanistan Crisis: US Returning 3,000 Combat Troops to Kabul, 1,000 to Qatar, 3,500-4,000 to Kuwait

(CNSNews.com) – In what the Pentagon will not describe as a combat mission, roughly 3,000 Marines and soldiers will deploy to Kabul’s international airport in the next 24-48 hours with a “narrowly-focused” mission of safeguarding the withdrawal of all but a “core” of U.S. diplomatic personnel in the coming weeks.

Another 1,000-strong unit of soldiers and airmen will deploy to Qatar “in the coming days” to help process Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Afghans who helped the U.S. and want to leave, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told a briefing.

And a U.S. Army 82nd Airborne combat team, 3,500-4,000-strong, will fly from Fort Bragg, N.C. to Kuwait “sometime within the next week,” to be on standby in case needed to help secure the Hamid Karzai International Airport.

The 3,000 troops heading to Kabul comprise one Army and two Marine battalions, currently stationed in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility – Kirby would not be more specific. They will be in addition to the around 650 U.S. personnel still on the ground in the Afghan capital providing diplomatic security.

Rest - https://www.cnsnews.com/article/international/patrick-goodenough/afghanistan-crisis-us-returning-3000-combat-troops-kabul

[Gunny]

Which all of course...

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Afghanistan Crisis: US Returning 3,000 Combat Troops to Kabul, 1,000 to Qatar, 3,500-4,000 to Kuwait

(CNSNews.com) – In what the Pentagon will not describe as a combat mission, roughly 3,000 Marines and soldiers will deploy to Kabul’s international airport in the next 24-48 hours with a “narrowly-focused” mission of safeguarding the withdrawal of all but a “core” of U.S. diplomatic personnel in the coming weeks.

Another 1,000-strong unit of soldiers and airmen will deploy to Qatar “in the coming days” to help process Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Afghans who helped the U.S. and want to leave, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told a briefing.

And a U.S. Army 82nd Airborne combat team, 3,500-4,000-strong, will fly from Fort Bragg, N.C. to Kuwait “sometime within the next week,” to be on standby in case needed to help secure the Hamid Karzai International Airport.

The 3,000 troops heading to Kabul comprise one Army and two Marine battalions, currently stationed in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility – Kirby would not be more specific. They will be in addition to the around 650 U.S. personnel still on the ground in the Afghan capital providing diplomatic security.

Rest - https://www.cnsnews.com/article/international/patrick-goodenough/afghanistan-crisis-us-returning-3000-combat-troops-kabulWe need to have this in one thread so us old folk can keep up :)

Man, what one could do with those units if one was of a mind to :halo9:

[Russ]

Anyone with an IQ in double digits could have foreseen that a sudden withdrawal of all American troops would end up with the Taliban taking back over in some kind of short time frame, whether several months or several weeks.

That being the case, what was the Biden administration thinking about all the Afghans that were helping Americans for the last 20 years? The translators, the Afghan police, shopkeepers, teachers, and any other Afghans that the Taliban are aware of? What will happen to them?

The answer, in my strong opinion, is that they will be killed. Biden could have allowed them to come to America but he didn't. Biden is okay with Guatemalans sick with Covid crossing our border illegally and dropping them off on a random street corner, but he'd rather let the Afghans get killed instead of legally coming to America.

What does that make Biden in regard to the Afghans? It makes him a traitor, which is virtually the worst thing anyone can be.

And what will it make every other country in the world think when dealing with America? It will make them think "don't make deals with or ever depend on a proven traitor". Thanks a lot, Joe Biden - your sliminess is sullying the entire country. :mad:

[Gunny]

Anyone with an IQ in double digits could have foreseen that a sudden withdrawal of all American troops would end up with the Taliban taking back over in some kind of short time frame, whether several months or several weeks.

That being the case, what was the Biden administration thinking about all the Afghans that were helping Americans for the last 20 years? The translators, the Afghan police, shopkeepers, teachers, and any other Afghans that the Taliban are aware of? What will happen to them?

The answer, in my strong opinion, is that they will be killed. Biden could have allowed them to come to America but he didn't. Biden is okay with Guatemalans sick with Covid crossing our border illegally and dropping them off on a random street corner, but he'd rather let the Afghans get killed instead of legally coming to America.

What does that make Biden in regard to the Afghans? It makes him a traitor, which is virtually the worst thing anyone can be.

And what will it make every other country in the world think when dealing with America? It will make them think "don't make deals with or ever depend on a proven traitor". Thanks a lot, Joe Biden - your sliminess is sullying the entire country. :mad:I've already stated more than twice in the past I wouldn't be allies with the US. We were a bad enough ally when it was all about money.

Now? It's about undoing whatever the other party's guy did, no rhyme nor reason required. So if Trump supported you? Biden's leaving your ass hanging in the wind.

I can't think of too many things Biden "undid" that hasn't bitten him in the ass.