Afghanistan

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

LA Times: California students still stuck in Afghanistan, you know

 

 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/10/06/la-times-california-students-still-stuck-in-afghanistan-you-know-n420571

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Silent disgrace: Where is the national media on abandoned Americans?

 

Just how many Americans — citizens and legal permanent residents — remain abandoned in Afghanistan? The State Department has yet to give any firm figures, and the national media remains completely uninterested. Local news outlets are the only media reporting on it, Jim Geraghty notices today:

 

The sort of headline that shouldn’t just be local news: “43 Connecticut Residents Still Stuck In Afghanistan.”

Those knee-jerk Biden critics over at . . . er, the Connecticut affiliate of NBC News report[.]

 

Indeed. Two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times offered a local news report — via a newsletter — on Californians trapped behind Taliban lines without covering it in its national news section. NBC’s Connecticut affiliate kept its local viewers apprised on 43 state residents still stuck in Afghanistan while its parent news organization ignored the story entirely:

 

More than three dozen Connecticut residents are still trying to leave Afghanistan after American forces withdrew. Elected officials, relief organizations, and veterans groups are trying to get them out.

“Their school teachers are calling me asking me where are the students. The 10-year-old student from New Haven who is stuck in Kabul is sending me voicemail messages,” Chris George, executive director of IRIS said.

George is talking about some of the 43 Connecticut residents stuck in Afghanistan.

“They’re running out of food and yes, they are running out of hope,” George said.

 

Even if the State Department won’t give any firm numbers, Sen. Richard Blumenthal will. His estimate of the number of people his own office is tracking — eight hundred — far exceeds any number that State has suggested. Alex Plitsas, a veteran of Afghanistan working to get people out, tells NBC News’ affiliate that he believes over 1,000 Americans remain trapped, and that the number of Afghan allies we abandoned exceeds sixty thousand.

 

 

We’ve been out of Afghanistan for 49 days. It’s going to take another two months before the US government puts together a plan to evacuate the Americans and allies it abandoned seven weeks ago.

What a disgrace — for Joe Biden, the State Department, the Pentagon, and especially for the national media that has gone out of its way to avoid covering it.

 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/10/18/silent-disgrace-where-is-the-national-media-on-abandoned-americans-n423134

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/in-afghanistan-almost-everyone-is-in-danger-now/

[B-Man]

 

 

"A dark future is awaiting everyone in Afghanistan, especially female judges."

 

"I lost my job and now I can’t even go outside or do anything freely because I fear these freed prisoners."

Said Nabila, a former judge, quoted in "Female Judges in Afghanistan, Now Jobless and in Hiding/They fear that they or their loved ones could be tracked down and killed because of their work delivering justice to women. 'We have lost everything — our jobs, our homes, the way we lived'" (NYT).

 

And there's this, from Susan Glazebrook, a supreme court justice of New Zealand, who is president of the International Association of Women Judges: 

 

"They are women who had the effrontery to sit in judgment on men. The women judges of Afghanistan are under threat for applying the law. They are under threat because they have made rulings in favor of women according to law in family violence, custody and divorce cases.... Women judging men is anathema to the Taliban.... These women believed in their country, believed in human rights and believed in the importance of the rule of law and their duty to uphold it... [And because of that, t]hey are at risk of losing their lives.”

 

 

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-dark-future-is-awaiting-everyone-in.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/world/asia/afghan-judges-women-taliban.html?smid=url-share

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

“A LIVING HELL:” ABC features family trapped in Afghanistan … from India? 

 

“The good news: ABC has escalated coverage of those abandoned in the Afghanistan collapse and crying out for rescue. The not-so-good news: the family ABC chose for this segment comes from India. Their description of Taliban rule as ‘a living hell’ is compelling, but … what happened to the Americans abandoned by Biden?”

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/10/26/a-living-hell-abc-features-family-trapped-in-afghanistan-from-india-n424876

 

 

 

The House of Stephanopoulos is doing their best, but I don’t think they can Memory Hole this issue on Biden’s behalf: 

The Biden Admin Said It Left 100 Americans in Afghanistan. They Now Admit It’s Far More.

 

In off-the-record call with congressional staff, Biden admin says nearly 400 still stranded.

 

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/the-biden-admin-said-it-left-100-americans-in-afghanistan-they-now-admit-its-far-more/

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Pentagon confirms nearly 450 Americans trapped in Afghanistan

by Ronn Blitzer

 

The Pentagon stated Tuesday that nearly 450 American citizens are still in Afghanistan following August’s U.S. military withdrawal, more than the Biden administration has previously claimed. The latest tally came from Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl, after Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., pointed to what he believed were contradictory or at least "confusing" numbers that the administration has presented since the August 31 withdrawal.

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-number-americans-trapped-in-afghanistan

[B-Man]

 

 

REMEMBER AFGHANISTAN?

 

One thing about news stories that reflect badly on Democrats: they generally disappear from the news quickly, and without leaving a trace. Like our departure from Afghanistan, an epic failure on the part of the Biden administration that resulted in 13 dead Americans (that we know of), hundreds of Americans still marooned in Afghanistan–assuming they are all still alive–and many thousands of Afghans, mostly unknown, in the U.S. or on the way here.

 

Yesterday Senator Josh Hawley published a State Department email that passed on President Biden’s instructions for the evacuation:

 

At the link: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/remember-afghanistan.php

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Just the Beginning: Ten Afghan Evacuees Detained as National Security Risks.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/10/29/just-the-beginning-ten-afghan-evacuees-detained-as-national-security-risks-n1527904

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn’t recommend any disciplinary action, The Associated Press has learned.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/watchdog-finds-no-misconduct-mistaken-194016496.html?fr=sychp_catchall

 

 

 

[Doc]

I guess incompetence doesn't warrant discipline.

[B-Man]

 

 

On 11/3/2021 at 6:51 PM, Doc said:

I guess incompetence doesn't warrant discipline.

 

It will...............in 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

On 11/3/2021 at 4:37 PM, B-Man said:

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn’t recommend any disciplinary action, The Associated Press has learned.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/watchdog-finds-no-misconduct-mistaken-194016496.html?fr=sychp_catchall

 

 

 

its not like they separated them from their families while they were illegally crossing the border or something.. 😒 

[B-Man]

 

 

I refuse to believe that someone, Military, State dpt., or any of the last 3 administrations was not aware of this to some degree.

 

Khalid Payenda, Afghanistan’s ex-finance minister, said the Afghan army was actually just 1/6th of what it appeared to be on paper (and in the minds of Pentagon officials) and that thousands of “ghost soldiers” were invented with officers pocketing their salaries:

 

 

 

 

[BillStime]

On 8/30/2021 at 10:00 PM, BillStime said:

 

How many civilians did the Trump administration kill during his one and only term?

 

Hey @B-Man - now why was this kept a secret?

 

 

 

[Dukestreetking]

On 11/10/2021 at 11:37 AM, B-Man said:

 

 

I refuse to believe that someone, Military, State dpt., or any of the last 3 administrations was not aware of this to some degree.

 

It's maddening, esp b/c I can assure you w 💯 certainty that everyone knew of this problem.

 

I should add, however, that there were/are some very good combat units, most working b/w/t SoF or other USG organizations.

 

And, believe it or not, alot of these guys were crazy brave, even if incompetent.... could be due to all the hash they smoke!

[B-Man]

 

 

Squad of Navy SEALs running for Congress blast Biden on Afghanistan, call for ‘mandate’ to ‘rescue our citizens’

by Jon Dougherty

 

Nearly a half-dozen former Navy SEALs who are poised to jump into political races ahead of the 2022 midterm elections have blasted President Joe Biden, asking why he has not mandated that Americans still trapped in Afghanistan be rescued rather than COVID-19 vaccines.The ex-special operators, in remarks to Fox News, were commenting on the deadly, disastrous evacuation in August after 13 U.S. military personnel — 11 Marines, two U.S. Army soldiers, and a Navy corpsman — were killed in a suicide bombing outside the international airport in Kabul.

 

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/11/14/squad-of-navy-seals-running-for-congress-blast-biden-on-afghanistan-call-for-mandate-to-rescue-our-citizens-1163120/

 

 

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[Doc]

I'm not sure it's foundational, but it's definitely emblematic of the shitshow most people think Joey's Admin has been,

Edited November 24, 2021 by Doc

[B-Man]

Maybe I should put this in the "Thank You Joe Biden" thread.