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re: Taliban has taken Kabul. Terrorist attack at Airport at least 12 marines confirmed killed
Posted on 8/18/21 at 9:53 pm to VABuckeye
Posted on 8/18/21 at 9:53 pm to VABuckeye
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A friend at Dulles has been working on getting people home. Sleeping on his office couch every night. It’s a clusterfrick.
He's about to get alot busier:
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FAA says U.S. carriers can operate Kabul evacuation flights with DOD approval LINK
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Posted on 8/18/21 at 9:54 pm to OMLandshark
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Hey Bill Maher and Sam Harris, was that vote really worth it?
So Sam has made a statement:
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Biden achieves near-Trumpian negligence here. But unlike Trump, whose reputation among his fans was magically shielded from earthly damage, Biden can't get away with being a callous moron in an emergency—and he shouldn't. This is all just sickening.
Not near-Trumpian negligence. Way worse than Trumpian negligence. As someone who runs a company, Sam has to know that Trump in the very least would have either gotten his equipment out of there or destroyed it. On a base level, Sam has to know that Trump knows how to balance a checkbook. And that’s not even to get into that Trump had a policy that got American citizens out of there first, that Biden disregarded. No, not near-Trumpian. This is much, much, much worse than Trumpian ideology.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 9:56 pm to LegendInMyMind
Reuters link for the FAA announcement
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WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late Wednesday that domestic air carriers and civilian pilots can fly into Kabul to conduct evacuation or relief flights with prior U.S. Defense Department approval.
In a statement, the FAA said that without prior approval, U.S. carriers cannot fly over Afghanistan airspace or fly into Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The FAA cited "a lack of high altitude air traffic control services."
This post was edited on 8/18/21 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 8/18/21 at 9:57 pm to LegendInMyMind
One problem: one runway. They fricked this up so much.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:02 pm to LegendInMyMind
Yeah. I’m flying up to Virginia next week. No chance in hell I get to see him.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:03 pm to LegendInMyMind
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civilian pilots can fly into Kabul to conduct evacuation or relief flights with prior U.S. Defense Department approval.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:04 pm to LegendInMyMind
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at the widespread practice of bacha bazi, or “boy play,” in which some Afghan commanders keep underage boys as sex slaves.
It goes back a long, long way specifically to Alexander the Great and his Greek/Macedonian army. Though I’m sure the Afghans & Muzzies have put their own creative spin on it. So tempted to include the South Park NAMBLA episode but I’ll let one of you other degenerates to do me proud.
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Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged romantic relationship between an adult male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens. It was characteristic of the Archaic and Classical periods.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:11 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
The "Foreign Policy Expert" at work in 2003 speaking on Afghanistan and Kabul.
Video at link:
Video at link:
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#Biden 2003, Tony Blinken right behind him.
"Question is not, why is US in Afghanistan; question is, will you stay the course?
Will we become the back page of the newspaper, be the previous major crisis? Will the US declare victory and then go home?"
#Afghanistan #Kabul LINK
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:12 pm to Boomdaddy65201
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NYT confirms that 128 employees and their families have been evacuated from Afghanistan
I wonder if they back off the pressure on the administration, now.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:13 pm to kengel2
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Lately, it seems as all the flag officers are backstabbing politicians.
That’s not a recent phenomenon flag officers have a political approval process. Somewhere around light bird you have to make a decision - retire a Colonel or play the game.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:16 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Joint Chief of Staff Milley: “There was nothing that I saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days.”
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:18 pm to OMLandshark
quote:Not if the Taliban doesn't let us. Maybe they gave Brits permission? Pure speculation, tho.
Of course we can.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:19 pm to ItTakesAThief
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Any Americans die in the process we are bringing 100,000 troops back and will stay another 20 years and kill every taliban alive.
Lol. It would be 2 months before American sensibilities were offended and calls for stricter ROEs were in place and it would be 2017 all over again.
The American public doesn’t have the stomachs for that.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:19 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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That’s not a recent phenomenon flag officers have a political approval process. Somewhere around light bird you have to make a decision - retire a Colonel or play the game.
My cousin retired during Obama's reign.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:20 pm to UASports23
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Joint Chief of Staff Milley: “There was nothing that I saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days.”
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:20 pm to LegendInMyMind
What commercial pilot wants to fly into that war zone???
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:22 pm to tiger91
At the rate Biden’s going we are going to be at war with the brits soon. He has pissed everyone off
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:23 pm to Taxing Authority
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Maybe they gave Brits permission? Pure speculation, tho.
I don’t see why they’d give them permission.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 10:23 pm to Tigerbait357
Is that her middle finger on her temple??? Subtle.
Subtle. 
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