I am reminded that Biden is of the same cabal of idiots that brought us the following: Clinton couldn't be bothered with killing Bin Laden in the 90's, then 20 years later were timid about the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan (remember Joe said "don't go"; traded the most dangerous terrorist in the universe for deserter Bowe Bergdhal; pardoned traitor Chelsea Manning; gave the Iranians billions in cash in the middle of the night; agreed to a terrible Iranian nuclear deal; left our people to the mercy of terrorists in Benghazi, and who knows what else. They are true to form, I will give them that, and mush brain is just a tool of the cabal.

An opinion piece (interview) from The Wall Street Journal.
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THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW with David Petraeus

| By Tunku Varadarajan

A Commander Reflects on the Afghan Debacle

As Americans despair over the Afghanistan catastrophe, few have more cause to take it personally than retired Gen. David Petraeus. Not only was he commander of U.S. and allied forces there for 13 months in 2010-11; his son and daughter-in law both served there in the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade.

That involved an additional measure of personal sacrifice: During his command, he didn’t see his son to avoid making a target of the young man’s unit.

In a Zoom interview, I ask Mr. Petraeus, 68, what effect the ignominious withdrawal will have on military morale. He chooses his words carefully without masking his indignation. “I think—particularly for those who served there— that it is very sad,” he says. “It is heartbreaking. It is tragic. And I think it is disastrous.” He asks: “Is American national security better now than it was four months ago?” Then he answers indirectly: “It’s a tough answer to arrive at if folks have given 20 years of service and sacrifice.”

The general hastens to add, however, that “this is not the post-Vietnam military; there is no hollow Army.” He says what every American fighting man is inclined to say, “that this is best-equipped, best-trained, most combat-experienced military by far in the world.” It isn’t the Army he joined “as a very young lieutenant” in 1974. “That was a very different Army. That was an undisciplined Army.” He was “very fortunate” to go to an airborne battalion combat team in Italy that was “very elite, and everybody else wanted to go to.” But when he and his fellow officers would “go up to Germany at that time, the indiscipline was just stunning.” And “the racial issues were draining.”

Mr. Petraeus sounds pained when comparing “the reality we had” before the pullout to the new status quo. He valued—even cherished—the fallen Afghan government. “However imperfect that government was, however flawed, however many its maddening shortcomings and corrupt activities,” he says, its leaders were “great partners” in ensuring that al Qaeda, Islamic State and other terrorist groups couldn’t re-establish the kind of sanctuary that al Qaeda had under the Taliban before 9/11.

Yet he suggests the Taliban are so constrained that they may end up being less difficult to deal with than many Americans fear.

Minutes before our interview, he says, he told Tony Blair: “The Taliban may discover that just like a political party, sometimes it’s easier to be an opposition than it is to actually govern.” The former British prime minister “just chuckled,” Mr. Petraeus says, declining to elaborate on Mr. Blair’s reaction. “I’m a loyal man,” he says.

“Blair was my wartime prime minister.”

An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. citizens remained in Afghanistan at the time of the pullout, and the most urgent priority is to ensure the evacuation of all who wish to leave, as well as the safe passage of the 18,000 Afghan battlefield interpreters—“ we call them ‘terps’ ”—and their families, who face mortal peril from the Taliban. The latter “is a very big deal, a real moral obligation which we have not met in three consecutive administrations.”

The U.S. has to “continue to pressure the Taliban to enable these individuals to move to Kabul airport right now.” He is certain that the U.S. military is “examining various possible courses of action, where you go into the city—very visibly, and with very substantial capacity—and you may have to go get some of these people.”

“Does the U.S. have leverage with the Taliban?” he asks. “It has enormous leverage, and the Taliban is very familiar with it.”

They’ve been “on the receiving end of our leverage. That’s our military power.” We don’t want to use it, Mr. Petraeus emphasizes.

“But I don’t think they want to provoke us into a position of having to use our military power against them, given that they have experienced this on innumerable occasions, most of which have ended very badly for them.”

Thus, he thinks the Taliban won’t want to jeopardize their control of the country by taking hostages. “They’ve achieved what they set out to accomplish,” he says. “They control probably more of the country now than they did prior to 9/11.”

As for the challenges of governing, “I assume they have to be painfully aware that they face an enormous budget deficit.” Not only have Afghan assets been frozen and Western aid withdrawn, but the “big-spending Western organizations, nonprofits, and embassies that were really a part of the ecosystem of Kabul and the major cities around Afghanistan, are gone too,” as are many Afghan entrepreneurs.

The Afghan government budget is “roughly $18 billion a year,” Mr. Petraeus says. The government “might generate $2 billion in customs duties, some taxes, and so forth,” he says—and that’s “in a good year—a really good year.”

They’ll supplement that with drug money, he says, but that won’t be enough. The economy is “clearly going to tank for a period of time.”

The Taliban will have to pay salaries, import fuel to keep generators going, provide basic services, and repair damaged infrastructure. That’s “a pretty tall order” in itself, Mr. Petraeus says, “and they’re about to get acquainted with the reality of governing a country that generates at most one-tenth of what it needs to meet its fiscal obligations.”

What happens “when they just flat run out of money and the lights go out?”

Perhaps a bailout from Beijing, which has appeared to embrace the new regime in Kabul and is on the verge formally recognizing it? Mr. Petraeus says that he is “fully cognizant of the possibility that China is standing ready to try to exploit the $2 trillion or so in mineral wealth in Afghanistan,” including copper, iron, lithium and rare-earth metals. The Chinese may have an easier time than they’ve had, since they won’t have the Taliban shooting at them as happened at the Mes Aynak copper deposits, 25 miles southeast of Kabul, where the Afghan government awarded a concession to two Chinese state-owned companies in 2008. The Taliban “was shooting rockets and mortars” at Chinese operations, which eventually shut down. After the Taliban retook power, the China Metallurgical Group Corp. said it would resume mining.

Besides, there are limits to what the Chinese can—and will—do. Beijing will invest in Afghanistan, says Gen. Petraeus, and “that’ll help. But keep in mind that the normal way that China goes in and does this is to bring in Chinese workers, Chinese construction materials, Chinese design . . . even Chinese food!” In any case, he adds, it will take a long time to establish the extractive industries from which the Taliban could derive revenue.

On Monday President Biden blamed Afghans for the Taliban’s quick victory. “The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight,” the president said. “American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.”

Mr. Petraeus bridles at such criticism. “Their soldiers fought and died in very substantial numbers,” he says with the protective indignation of a fellow soldier who fought alongside them. “It’s way over 60,000 dead. Roughly 27 times as many Afghans died fighting for their country as did Americans.” He points out that it’s been 18 months since the last U.S. combat death in the country.

He’s critical of Mr. Biden’s predecessor as well, calling the Trump administration’s negotiations with the Taliban “disastrous.” The U.S. “conveyed that we wanted to leave, and we thought we could get something from the Taliban in return for our leaving—which, of course, didn’t work out.” The agreement that was struck, “negotiated without the democratically elected government of Afghanistan at the table,” provided that the government would release more than 5,000 Taliban-affiliated detainees. Most went back to the battlefield.

He rejects the view that—as he sums it up—“it all went wrong when we started to nation-build.”

He notes that the U.S. and its allies had 150,000 troops in the country at the height of the war, a figure that had dwindled to a few thousand “until about four months ago.” That was accomplished by “transitioning security tasks” to the Afghans.

He offers unsparing words about Trump and Biden, a defense of nation-building, and says U.S. soldiers may have to re-enter Kabul to rescue Americans.

Doing so required efforts of the sort that critics deride as nation-building. Unlike in Iraq, where literacy levels are high, the coalition in Afghanistan had to teach remedial skills “before we could do basic training for the future Afghan soldiers and police. Because if you can’t read numbers, how do you get someone to be on the lookout for license plates on cars? If you can’t read an instruction manual, if you can’t add and subtract, you’ve got serious problems.” If you don’t do nation-building, “to whom do you hand off tasks that you’re performing when you topple a government and are in charge of the country?”

At the same time, Pakistan was a major headache for the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. Mr. Petraeus recalls a September 2005 briefing with Donald Rumsfeld, in which Gen. Petraeus stressed to the defense secretary that “Afghanistan does not equal Iraq.” In Afghanistan, “the enemy’s headquarters were outside the country and beyond our reach.” Only occasionally was the U.S. able to strike in Pakistan, such as the 2011 raid against Osama bin Laden and the 2016 killing of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Mullah Omar’s successor as head of the Taliban, who was targeted by a drone in Balochistan.

Efforts to press Islamabad were complicated: “Pakistan could shut down the ground lines of communication, and we were conscious of that,” Mr. Petraeus says. “We needed them to allow that to continue, for us to go to and from Afghanistan.”

Afghanistan is landlocked, with Iran to its west, and “you can’t fly everything in and out of a country when you’ve got 150,000 troops on the ground.”

Mr. Petraeus is adamant that the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was “sustainable,” and he expresses consternation that Mr. Biden felt compelled to follow through on a pullout to which Mr. Trump agreed. “Why did we just get so impatient that we didn’t appreciate that you can’t take a country from the seventh century— which is where it was under Taliban rule, when we toppled them—to the 21st century, in 20 years or less?” He observes that the new administration quickly reversed Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accords. “There has seemed to be no compulsion to continue all that Trump had decided to do, but here, in Afghanistan, we followed through.”

What lessons should friends and foes draw from the Great American Pullout?

“I don’t think you can dispute that the outcome here is a blow in some fashion to our reputation and credibility,” Mr. Petraeus says. “I think you have to be forthright and acknowledge that.” The U.S. has to “begin immediately to shore up that credibility and that reputation.”

Should someone in government be compelled to resign over the Afghan debacle? Again Mr. Petraeus chooses his words with care: “Without knowing who said what to whom and when, it’s impossible to answer that question. What I will say is, there is a long history in Washington and other national capitals of describing an undesirable policy outcome as intelligence failure, and we have to be keenly aware of that at present, clearly.”

When I ask Mr. Petraeus—who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency after retiring from the military in 2011—to elaborate, he says: “I think it’s very clear what I just said.”

Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at New York University Law School’s Classical Liberal Institute.

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Another commentary:
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What Went Wrong In Afghanistan?

As America’s longest war draws to an end, sharp disagreements remain about its aims, direction and success. Having Won, We Chose to Lose

BY DANIELLE PLETKA

We Americans like to deceive ourselves. We want to believe there is good war and bad war. World War II was a good war, varnished with the patina of history. Vietnam was a bad war, its reality overridden by popular cultural narratives. Once, in the decade after 9/11, Afghanistan was the good war and Iraq the bad, a war of “choice,” not necessity. Now they are both bad.

Similarly, we like our winners and our losers well defined. But those on the field of battle are seldom Captain America and his nemesis Hydra. The reality of ambiguous war and victory defined down is unappealing to us. “Maintain the better status quo” is not a clarion call.

There are many things that went wrong in Afghanistan. The strategy was weak, and the enemy persistent. The U.S. was often unfocused in its goals, under-resourcing even our limited efforts. Our allies on the ground—not just the Afghans, but the members of a coalition theoretically pursuing Enduring Freedom—were often far less capable than they might have been. But none of these problems were fatal to our effort to ensure that extremists would not control the country.

Despite our—and Afghanistan’s—accomplishments, a succession of presidents made them seem less worthwhile. Barack Obama, Donald Trump and now President Joe Biden said much the same thing: That our allies would not fight (though in truth tens of thousands of Afghans have died fighting); that democracy is not worth fighting for (there have been six elections in Afghanistan since 9/11); that American troops supporting stability in Afghanistan serve no purpose (notwithstanding consistent Taliban losses thanks to our close air support and intelligence); and that after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, our was done.

For more than a decade, we have not had a president willing to persuade us that the fight in Afghanistan was worthy, nor to use his bully pulpit to praise that nation’s progress. No one has reminded us that it is the Afghan people who have borne the brunt of keeping us safe, delaying a return to the days when terrorists used those lands to plot the return of the caliphate. No leader has been willing to lay down the marker and say: With a few thousand troops, we are winning on the terms we laid down, denying a homeland to al Qaeda.

Instead, President Biden stood before the American people this week, after one of the worst strategic and diplomatic debacles of the last half-century and said: It’s been 20 years, and we haven’t won. Let’s quit.

After a brief moment of outrage, we will turn around and say, yeah, that was a bad war, the Afghans were not worthy. There was no Captain America moment. But we will inevitably find ourselves back in Afghanistan, never realizing that once we won, we chose to lose. For our own safety, we will need to win again.

Ms. Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow in foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute.

LINK

https://www.washingtonexaminer...e-making-us-look-bad

I've suffered this attitude on a far smaller scale , and IF it's true - I don't know anything about the WE - this is neither the time nor the place for this way of thinking.

Some of the best reporting is coming from Lara Logan.

“The greatest gift to the Taliban from US Pres Envoy Khalilzad was US leaving Bagram Air Base instantly giving up Afghan air space, signals Intel etc. Nothing you see now would be happening if the US had not done that -demanded by Taliban, opposed by US mil, overruled by State Dep”

That same SigInt and other highly classified NSA, DIA, CIA hardware and intelligence immediately crossed the border into Pakistan. Within 12 hours, the Taliban was able to locate (in a city without addresses) the location of all those it targeted for aiding the U.S., this also according to Logan.

Link, Lara Logan Challenge

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
https://www.washingtonexaminer...e-making-us-look-bad

I've suffered this attitude on a far smaller scale , and IF it's true - I don't know anything about the WE - this is neither the time nor the place for this way of thinking.

Tac, the 22nd SPECIAL AIR SERVICE REGIMENT embarrassing the American 82nd Airborne isn’t that strange.

The 82nd Airborne is a parachute division.

That’s about all they have in common with the 22nd SAS, the SAS being a small unit with extremely well defined mission profiles and extraordinary soldiers.

It’s sad, but I doubt a SOCOM unit (e.g., Special Operations Detachment Delta, USAF Pararescuemen) would even joke that the 22nd SAS is embarrassing them.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:
https://www.washingtonexaminer...e-making-us-look-bad

I've suffered this attitude on a far smaller scale , and IF it's true - I don't know anything about the WE - this is neither the time nor the place for this way of thinking.

Tac, the 22nd SPECIAL AIR SERVICE REGIMENT embarrassing the American 82nd Airborne isn’t that strange.

The 82nd Airborne is a parachute division.

That’s about all they have in common with the 22nd SAS, the SAS being a small unit with extremely well defined mission profiles and extraordinary soldiers.

It’s sad, but I doubt a SOCOM unit (e.g., Special Operations Detachment Delta, USAF Pararescuemen) would even joke that the 22nd SAS is embarrassing them.

I talked about this is the other thread. But yeah, lots of stand down type orders going around. Everyone is pretty frustrated, and Ive lost count of the times I have heard and said some variation of “we look like amateurs”

I was in Nairobi during the last mall shooting with some SAS guys. US assets were all frozen in place, SAS dude got the green light and got to work. He earned the name “Nairobi Wan Kenobi”.

SAS is a radical departure in culture from other parts of British society and are seemingly/shockingly less bureaucratically restricted by their civilian over sight than we are. They are all really good dudes.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
It’s sad, but I doubt a SOCOM unit (e.g., Special Operations Detachment Delta, USAF Pararescuemen) would even joke that the 22nd SAS is embarrassing them.

That's probably true, were they being allowed to operate.

[url=https://postimg.cc/xNDZ6VWQ] Bastards...

US Warns American Citizens To Avoid Kabul Airport One Day After Biden Reassures That All Is Well

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...n-reassures-all-well

https://af.usembassy.gov/secur...stan-august-21-2021/

One day after the dementia-ridden president lied to Americans and billions watching around the world that he has “no indication that [Americans] haven’t been able to get, in Kabul, through the airport,” when asked about evacuating Americans who couldn’t get to the airport...



... just 12 hours later (or 2-3 days in Biden time) on Saturday the US embassy in Kabul, or rather what's left of it, advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to Kabul airport, adding that authorities will contact all registered U.S. citizens with further instructions as the situation updates.

"Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so," the embassy posted Saturday morning.

To the thousands of desperate US citizens gathered trying to flee the country the instructions to wait - perhaps until General Milley is finished reading the collected works of Mao Zedong - will come as merely the latest slap in the face by an administration that has rightfully earned international scorn and mockery for its unprecedented botching of the Afghan withdrawal.

Images circulated on social media this week of Afghans rushing towards a U.S. C-17 transport plane and clinging to its side. A separate video showed what appeared to be two people falling from a military plane as it flew out of Kabul. Since then, crowds have grown at the airport where armed Taliban have urged those without travel documents to go home. At least 12 people have been killed in and around the single runway airfield since Sunday, NATO and Taliban officials said.

The chaos was not the responsibility of the Taliban, an official of the group told Reuters. "The West could have had a better plan to evacuate."

Meanwhile, Switzerland postponed a charter flight from Kabul because of the chaos, its foreign ministry said: "The security situation around Kabul airport has worsened significantly in the last hours. A large number of people in front of the airport and sometimes violent confrontations are hindering access to the airport," the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

As noted above, the latest fiasco comes after Biden, with a straight face, read from the teleprompter that his administration had “no indication” that Americans weren’t able to get to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. “We’ve made an agreement with the Taliban. Thus far, they’ve allowed them to go through." Alas, it now appears that the Taliban have altered the deal, and the only recourse US citizens in Afghanistan have that the Taliban don't alter it further, is prayer.

Realizing that everyone knew Biden had just lied, just an hour later a scrambling Department of Defense acknowledged being aware of reports that Taliban terrorists had been beating Americans in Afghanistan.

Adding to the chaos, overnight the Post reported (the real one, not that Amazon garbage) that in the latest blow to those running up against the clock, Afghan-Americans on Thursday said that Taliban fighters are now attempting to take their U.S. passports and identification orders in an attempt to stop them from leaving the country.

“I got to the gates and was about to show my passport, but the Taliban got it, and he said you are not allowed to go through and wouldn’t give it back,” one Afghan-American, who served for several years as an interpreter during the war and has his home in the U.S but requested anonymity for safety reasons, said. “I was lucky a U.S. marine was right there and forced him to give it back.” Buth some have not been so lucky — hamstringing their chance to make it home ahead of the Taliban’s officially assuming of the throne.

“U.S. passports, driver’s licenses — they are confiscating those pieces of documentation from American citizens,” said Ephraim Mattos, a former Navy SEAL and founder of the humanitarian organization, Stronghold Rescue and Relief, which is working around the clock to evacuate Afghans interpreters and helpers. “They lose proof of who they are, and this has happened on multiple occasions in multiple places.”

President Joe Biden on Friday said they “know of no circumstance where American citizens are carrying an American passport” and not able to reach the airport. Well, now he does.

Other Afghan-Americans describe scenes of crowds getting crushed and even infant babies getting injured, of brutal beatings by some Taliban members to push back the sea of frenzied faces.

About 12,000 foreigners and Afghans working for embassies and international aid groups have been evacuated from Kabul airport since Taliban insurgents entered the capital, a NATO official said.

"The evacuation process is slow, as it is risky, for we don't want any form of clashes with Taliban members or civilians outside the airport," the NATO official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "We don't want to start a blame game regarding the evacuation plan" for obvious reason.

Individual Afghans and international aid and advocacy groups have reported harsh retaliation against protests, and roundups of those who had formerly held government positions, criticised the Taliban or worked with Americans.

"We have heard of some cases of atrocities and crimes against civilians," said the Taliban official on condition of anonymity. "If (members of the Taliban) are doing these law and order problems, they will be investigated," he said. "We can understand the panic, stress and anxiety. People think we will not be accountable, but that will not be the case."

Former officials told harrowing tales of hiding from the Taliban in recent days as gunmen went from door to door. One family of 16 described running to the bathroom, lights off and children's mouths covered, in fear for their lives

Meanwhile, in Herat, more than a week after the Taliban seized the provincial capital, residents have continued to paint a chilling portrait of intimidation as the waiting game for the U.S. departure draws near.

“Taliban are searching home by home in Herat and asking about me,” one business owner with long-term ties to the United States, who is currently in an undisclosed location outside of Afghanistan, said. “Then others came to the Kabul office and asked about the company and our clients and warned they would search for information.”

It is a jarring fact of simply not knowing what lies ahead, driving much of the desperation forward.“These people are our allies; we fought shoulder-to-shoulder with them. I saw them fight just as bravely as any American soldier, and they deserve our support. What our country is doing to them now is a complete disgrace,” Mattos added. “What is happening is significantly worse than Saigon.”

Alas, even that was news to the US president - at least until he is replaced by Kamala Harris in a few weeks - who was shocked when confronted about criticism over the planning for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

"I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies," Biden told reporters after a speech from the White House on Friday. "As a matter of fact, the exact opposite ... we're acting with dispatch, we're acting, committing to what we said we would do."

https://af.usembassy.gov/secur...stan-august-21-2021/

This is the result of a stolen election.

The blood lay’s on the hands of Biden, his administration as well as those who took our country from us.
The silent coup carried out by RHINO’s, and Democrats alike made this possible.

Only the Taliban want to stay in Afghanistan.
What will the world do with a whole country of people who have nothing.
This will be a huge drain on the economies of countries that take them in.

Dimocraps can use a crisis to take more power, they have never been able to handle the actual crisis.

U.S. vetting Afghan refugees with biometrics but uncertain of some identities, memos show

‘We don’t know at first blush if someone is the seventh-cousin of bin Laden or a Good Samaritan,’ official says.

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is processing airlifted Afghan refugees in locations like Germany, Bahrain and Qatar before sending them to the Washington D.C.-area Dulles International airport, using biometrics when possible to identify those without official travel papers, according to internal memos obtained by Just the News.

The memos acknowledge all refugees are being screened for COVID-19 after they arrive in the United States, and some may be arriving without their identities ascertained.

"Some undocumented non-citizens who arrive in the United States will require additional processing, which is currently being finalized," a memo sent Friday to CPB staff stated. "DOS expects a strong possibility for the numbers of undocumented subjects to increase as the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate."

The memos show about 40 CPB officers have bene sent to Qatar, 31 to Germany and 31 to Bahrain to handle initial screenings offshore, and that as of Friday "personnel overseas have already screened over 850 passengers."

"As of today, all passengers are being processed through Washington Dulles International Airport and are COVID screened by the CDC or Virginia Health at the airport," the memo also stated.

State Department officials acknowledged Thursday that Afghans aren’t being screen for COVID before departing their chaotic, Taliban-controlled country on U.S. military transport aircraft.

One senior immigration official told Just the News that CPB officers on the frontlines are aware of the challenges of screening Afghan refugees and that biometrics will help identify only a certain number.

Catching those with terrorist sympathies or training is the highest priority, the official said.

"Most are leaving Afghanistan in a hurry, without travel papers, passports or birth certificates," the official explained. "We are flying blind in a proverbial rainstorm with lots of heavy fog. We don’t know at first blush if someone is the seventh-cousin of bin Laden or a Good Samaritan. It’s going to be tedious work.”

The official said one method of stopping dangerous individuals will be CPB agents checking a Defense Department database for anyone whose fingerprints or DNA were found on known terrorist bombs, bomb-making materials or Improvised Explosive Devices.

A memo sent earlier this week asked the agents to volunteer for duty, warning the work of processing Afghan refugees will be long and painstaking and that the duty carried no special promotions opportunities.

"Eligible candidates must be familiar with CBP vetting systems and mobile applications for arriving passengers; in possession of an official passport; are requested but not required to speak the Dari, Pashtu, and Arabic languages; and must be available to deploy within 2-3 days of selection,” the memo stated.

"Officers are expected to be able to perform all assigned duties and may be required to work irregular shifts up to 7 days per week, holidays and weekends, and possible alternative work schedules,” the memo also stated. "Duty assignments and work location will be determined upon arrival in country."

The memo Friday stated that CPB had set up a command center for the refugee operation – dubbed Operation Allies Refuge – and that the center is being run by Port Director Dylan Defrancisci.

The memos also made glancing reference to the impact of the Biden administration’s bungled exit strategy, calling it a "rapidly unfolding and sobering" moment in Afghanistan that could be particularly disturbing to veterans who served in the war."

"We know the footage in Afghanistan is unsettling and may stir up mixed emotions, especially for our service members," one memo stated.

Officials offered help ranging from chaplains to "a safe space to talk or share your concerns."

Pretty poor ratio.

What was that about “overwhelming the system”? Coward-Piven

Saw at the grocery store today....

seen at CTH

Corsair, my powder is dry, but I have no faith or confidence in our CIC, he’s a feckless, demented, coward who has folded under pressure. Biden lacks the fortitude to rescue our brother and sister Americans. If you don’t think that half of the country supports him doing nothing come to the northeast most giddy leftist liberals in and around Boston think he’s doing a great job.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...ating-u-s-passports/

The Kabul airport gates are reportedly closed Saturday, as additional details indicate the Taliban is confiscating U.S. passports.

The active security threats come as the New York Post reported the Taliban is “now attempting to take their U.S. passports and identification orders in an attempt to stop them from leaving the country.”

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.breitbart.com/poli...ating-u-s-passports/

The Kabul airport gates are reportedly closed Saturday, as additional details indicate the Taliban is confiscating U.S. passports.

The active security threats come as the New York Post reported the Taliban is “now attempting to take their U.S. passports and identification orders in an attempt to stop them from leaving the country.”

But no one could have ever seen this coming. According to Ole Slo Joe the Tallybon are completely living up to their agreement.