re: Taliban has taken Kabul. Terrorist attack at Airport at least 12 marines confirmed killed

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After at least four attempts in as many days, the family finally was whisked away by helicopter Wednesday in a dramatic rescue — called Operation Promise Kept — carried out under cover of darkness by the U.S. military and its allies, said Robert McCreary, a former congressional chief of staff and White House official under President George W. Bush, who has worked with special forces in Afghanistan.

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160th doing God's work.

This jackass on FNC David Tafuri just said "unfortunately this will hurt Biden". No fricking shite. This is the simple minded thinking of these dipshits from the Barry & Joe administrations.

ETA: This train's never late...blaming Trump.
ETA2: I've never felt like throwing my freaking TV out the window until now. Listening to this bullshite is infuriating.

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I hate CNN but she is brave as hell for not just going out but approaching the Taliban. Reminds me of their crew in a Baghdad hotel when Desert Storm started in '91

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Yes. Assuming Clarissa Ward makes it back alive, she should immediately get Fredo’s show. I feel bad for trouncing her earlier in the week with the friendly comment, but she is the most important journalist in the world right now. This is heroic journalism from her and I hope the Trumpkins won’t take her “friendly” comment out of proportion since I simply think she misspoke there.

How discombobulated and out of touch is this damn Administration? Biden's "address" was already delayed. Pushing it a couple more hours wouldn't have been a big deal. That would have allowed him to go on tv and say, "We are aware of the issues Americans and others are having reaching the airport. It is unfortunate and we will do everything in our power to help those people get to that airport." Then, you point to the multiple good reports coming out right now of our troops doing just that, outside the airport walls.

But, no! No fricking way could they manage that. Instead, they sent him in front of the world to outright lie to the people, and not just lies to cover your arse, but lies that went against everything other high ranking people in the Administration (who are presumably in constant contact with the fricking President) would very shortly expose of their own free will without being pushed into it.

What. The. frick?

How, how is this such a shitshow? Who the frick is running this outfit? I know I keep asking that, but I legitimately cannot tell who is calling the shots.

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This is heroic journalism

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She's going to win a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage. Rightfully so. I just hope they don't treat her like the Egyptians treated Lara Logan before she gets out of there.

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Who the frick is running this outfit?

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Jill Biden, PhD

Bret Baier pointing out how disjointed Biden, State, and Defense are. Ridiculous. These congressional hearings are going to be brutal. Wouldn't be surprised if the DNC told Joe to resign so KaMaLa could have a chance for them to keep the WH in 2024.

ETA: If they wait until Jan 21, 2023 she could serve as President 1 day short of 10 years.

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I don't know. NATO has been Biden bashing all day today. I haven't seen anything directly from the UN.

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Remember when everyone got all pissy when Trump made our NATO allies pay their fair share?

Bet they’d give anything to have that “problem” again rather than this disaster.

It seems as though trump made a deal with the taliban in 2020. He was going to leave 800 overseer troops.

The afghan vice president told pompeo this would fail.

The taliban had been paying the afghan army money to give up weapons and quit. This was all known by trump's team.

The plan was for the taliban to have 75%control and the afghan president 25%.

This was always going to be a major problem if we wanted to get out of there.