More outrageous failing of basic tasks here. The US should be dispatching up-armored Humvees and armed personnel to collect people where they are. Rescue extractions. And there should be a protected path for any others. Basic shit here. Who's running this?
JUST IN - Biden pulls $500 million from emergency funds to rehouse Afghan refugees. Like I said
what about some help from the 50 Muslim countries in terms of resettlement? why is it always and I mean always to white Christian countries? https://t.co/P5pOEBQHhH
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@Narrow_Way_1 @disclosetv what about some help from the 50 Muslim countries in terms of resettlement? why is it always and I mean always to white Christian countries?
The Taliban spokesman got a question about freedom of speech and he said the question should be asked to US companies like Facebook who claim to promote it while still censoring https://t.co/woXd5RRCWK
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The Taliban spokesman got a question about freedom of speech and he said the question should be asked to US companies like Facebook who claim to promote it while still censoring
Georgia gov open to accepting Afghanistan refugees after Taliban takeover #gapol https://t.co/lnWJKmbGxb
REPORTER: “What happens to the billions of dollars worth of weaponry that the US gave Afghanistan? Does the US have a plan for that?”
SULLIVAN: “We don’t have a complete picture—Certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban." https://t.co/SjIob1EIGY
SULLIVAN: “We don’t have a complete picture—Certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban." https://t.co/SjIob1EIGY
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REPORTER: “What happens to the billions of dollars worth of weaponry that the US gave Afghanistan? Does the US have a plan for that?” SULLIVAN: “We don’t have a complete picture—Certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban."
Here's a $760,000 contract for gym equipment in Afghanistan https://t.co/ZjXeHxEpUx another for $169,298 https://t.co/qUGVtg2Ujw another for $115,260 https://t.co/8XzyimXAKN $45k for Afghan treadmills https://t.co/zMGdOXdTGJ https://t.co/N8vVz9rT9N
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Afghanistan gym contract
President Biden has spoken to ZERO other world leaders since Kabul fell to the Taliban, Jake Sullivan says.
A photo of a school in #Afghanistan closed due to security issues. The students showed up bright and early anyway.
Teachers said goodbye to their female students who won’t be allowed to go to school anymore. A numbing helpless feeling. https://t.co/D6HiurPFKS
Teachers said goodbye to their female students who won’t be allowed to go to school anymore. A numbing helpless feeling. https://t.co/D6HiurPFKS
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A photo of a school in #Afghanistan closed due to security issues. The students showed up bright and early anyway. Teachers said goodbye to their female students who won’t be allowed to go to school anymore. A numbing helpless feeling.
Two things we've learned from this press briefing - 1) The President has not spoken with any other world leaders since Kabul fell; 2) The WH will not firmly commit to ensuring the safe departure of every American from Afghanistan. Remarkable.
Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki can’t offer any guarantee that all Americans will be evacuated from Afghanistan https://t.co/0XKueyBXCg
A congressional aide tells @CBSNews we have no partners left in Afghanistan to safely get Americans in-country to Kabul. “There are 10-15k AmCits who still need to get out, and that obviously doesn’t include the tens of thousands of SIVs or P2 applicants trying to get out of Afg”
The Biden Administration has left 10,000 U.S. citizens stranded in Afghanistan AT THE SAME TIME that it's already got Fort McCoy ready for "processing" Afghan refugees in Wisconsin.
What does that tell you?
What does that tell you?
After the Taliban seized control over Afghanistan, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted Monday that “the Taliban are the only people building back better.” https://t.co/fDcg9Tf3Xe
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Lauren Boebert Faces Major Backlash After Tweeting ‘Taliban Are the Only People Building Back Better’
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was met with immediate backlash after tweeting Monday that “the Taliban are the only people building back better.” The Taliban are the only people building back better. — Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 16, 2021 Taliban forces…
One reaction to the WH push to rebrand people desperately fleeing for their lives and that of their families as Afghan patriots who turned down the chance to leave because they wanted to stay and help longer https://t.co/1RqGkXLxJS https://t.co/5pnmCnYXqB
The Daily Beast
Mad Kabul Scramble Is ‘Exactly the Scenario We Feared’
“We didn’t need to be in this position,” said Rep. Jason Crow, an Afghanistan veteran who was one of 20 lawmakers who urged Biden to create a task force to protect Afghan allies.