Kabul Airport has thousands of fleeing civilians on Tarmac

I'm looking forward to all the brilliant media talking heads in their first interviews with the new government. We all know what the most important thing will be.

"What are your plans with regards to vaccinating the population of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan?"

originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Hoping the Taliban go into Xinjiang with all that hardware they left

Careful what you wish for...

The more advanced stuff, the things the Taliban doesn't have the resources to work or keep working, likely will be going to China for a closer look. In exchange for all the AKs and RPGs the Taliban wants.

LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY

This is literally from a CPT & GEN i was speaking to one day when, questioning strategic moves in Afghanistan

this is BS how does it make sense?

So the questioning was this...

Why do we we take Taliban controlled land AND THEN pull out the very next day, regardless of troops lost and sacrifice... we didn't push on to eliminate the threat, we walkewd in then give it back???? why do this?

we didn't take ground and continue onward... all we did was smash the Taliban, pin them down, force them out of the area... give them such heavy casualties all they wanted to do was hide... but why?

And then? guess what we did....yup we pulled back and let the Taliban retake the area after sacrificing those men and women, again and again and again. year after year after year...

Here is the horrible truth...WE DID NOT WANT TO WIN THAT WAR and this was literately the words of high ranking captains, majors, generals, like covid nobody could understand it

we ONLY WANTED TO HOLD IT AND PROLONG IT... it could have ended 15 years ago or more ... and even then we knew Iran was funneling all the Taliban arms, not so much Pakistan or china, all the land mines was Iranian, all their arms was Iranian, ccp never dirties their hands, The CCP however did fund Iran to do it including Russia... they funded Iran and Iran funded the Taliban, with Pakistanis secret service help, who also nailed Obama

But what happened parallel to that?

The Taliban and CIA moved into XIANGING, and the ccp moved on the Muslim Turks in retaliation,, even the CCP knew what the USA/NATO was doping in Afghanistan, and they locked them down, and OSINT show clearly the CCP fortified that boarder with new bases prior to the concentration camps and genocide occurred in Xinjiang region

its really not as clear cut and damaging as people think until i see more evidence the Taliban & CCP are as solid as people are making out, we'll see over the coming two years

a reply to: Brassmonkey


"Why hasn’t the 82nd Arb alert brigade dropped by now? "



Joseph Robinette Biden.

And the brainwashed idiots that voted for him.

It's not like 81 Million people haven't already been warned.

A C-17 departed Kabul as RCH871 with 800 on board.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
It's not like 81 Million people haven't already been warned.

Because hes a politician not a 5* general

don't watch Biden... don't watch Trump...watch the military doing exactly the opposite of what they say as they say it AKA the national security state

people need to understand were an open democratic society.. as much as possible, transparent as can be legally, while the enemy is a closed society, in complete secrecy... only state media broadcasts what they want you to think, the enemy is watching and likely within the system pulling all its levers they can to abuse the system, but not undiscovered, there has to be misdirection and misinformation

you could say those are benefits of being an autocracy vs democracy, but then we know even democracies are not transparent open and honest

Husband says he's already seen at least one so-called leftist thinker blasting Gov. Noem for riding a Harley into Sturgis while this happens in Afghanistan as if she has a single thing to do with it all.

a reply to: Zaphod58

800 people on a C-17? Holy RoachCoach!

originally posted by: 38181
a reply to: Zaphod58

800 people on a C-17? Holy RoachCoach!

Not sure how they could stack that many people in there, but I hope there isn't any turbulence.

a reply to: 38181

They put 130 in a DC3 in WWII and yes it flew. When people count is all that counts, you can stuff them in.

Listen I used to visit my buddy at Ft.Bragg in “Fayettnam” NC back in the day and my buddy was a an E-5 and a Romeo in the Signal Corps. When their brigade is on alert status they have a rucksack packed and ready to Rock and roll and go anywhere in the world in 24 hours.

We should have seen thousands of parachutes over the Kabul airport YESTERDAY. Where are the marines? Why is the us military letting thousands of people in the tarmac like that?

They should have created a perimeter around Bagram AFB, Kabul airport and Kandahar air base months ago and made sure all the people that worked for us for 20 years were all evacuated. The Taliban is going to broadcast images on Al Jazerra of them inside the US Embassy and raising the Taliban flag over the Embassy.

What a recruiting tool for terrorists. I don’t think I have been this sad since 9/11.

It’s funny that we could have avoided all this if these so called smart people read any history books that Afghanistan is where Empires go to die.



Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great of Macedon, Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Timurid Empire of Timur, the Mughal Empire, various Persian Empires, the Sikh Empire, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and most recently a coalition force of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops, the majority from the United States.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
A C-17 departed Kabul as RCH871 with 800 on board.

I'd love to know what rig they used. leg room wasn't likely a concern.
glad to hear we decided to do something. it was getting comical, in a not at all funny way.

a reply to: network dude

There's a massive air bridge going on. Six KC-10s and two more C-17s into the UK, heading to the Middle East. Looks like they're probably going to crew rest in the UK before heading in. There have been quite a few C-17 and C-130 flights in and out today, and lots of tankers meeting up with them, which says they're taking off with minimum fuel, to maximize weight on board.

a reply to: butcherguy

In 2013, they evacuated Tacloban in the Philippines for a hurricane that was heading towards them. They put as many as 675 on a C-17 in that evacuation, and actually had a little bit of room left.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

The record is an El Al 747-200 during Operation Solomon. They officially had 1,088 on board, which included two babies born in flight.

Nancy Pelosi has stated that women must be at the table when they shape Afghanistan's future.

I cannot imagine what it must be like to be that out of touch.

Women and girls at the table ...

“Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table. The fate of women and girls in Afghanistan is critical to the future of Afghanistan. As we strive to assist women, we must recognize that their voices are important, and all must listen to them for solutions, respectful of their culture,” Pelosi stated.

Not sure what universe she lives in ... but she has to realize she abdicated any right to dictate anything to the Afghans with this cluster.

a reply to: DBCowboy


Afghanisnam

Fox just reported that the American embassy has been fully evacuated. The Kabul airport has a secure perimeter now. Flights are continuing with some delays when the airport takes fire from the surrounding area.

a reply to: ketsuko

clearly she doesn't understand the whole philosophy of the taliban, that their whole purpose is to return Islam to the old ways like how it was during the time of muhammad, and equality for females doesn't follow that narrative. Muhammad blatantly stated that infidels are unworthy of keeping promises with, that its ok to lie to them if it gives you an opportunity to kill them. lets hope our planes are prepared for surprises.