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Originally posted by Russ59:
In reference to the above WSJ opinion piece, what does Biden say on the anniversary of 9/11?

"Sorry."

He'll do nothing of the sort, the man has never said he's sorry in his entire life.

He will do either of these on 9/11/2021:

1. Hide
2. Blame Trump

Or maybe both

How "successful" was the CIA Director ?

Taliban announces no extension to the 31 Aug deadline and Afghans are not allowed to go to Kabul Airport anymore


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Pentagon says number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will go to 'zero' at Aug. 31 deadline. Unclear who will protect last Americans leaving

'There's no question,' Taliban will help complete evacuation, Kirby says

The greatest superpower on earth in a matter of months shrunk to a senile doofus begging ragtag terrorists not to hurt us.

The heart of the problem is this: those in power do not live in the same country we inhabit. Therefore, they don't really care what happens to our country. Their world of gated mansions, exclusive boarding schools, premier medical care, private security guards, fat bank accounts and investments, yachts, ski chalets in Colorado-- all that goes on no matter what happens to us, the raggedy assed masses.

How hard is it to imaging Nancy Pelosi saying, at one of her $30,000-a-plate fundraisers, "Let them eat cake!"

Meanwhile in Plains, Georgia: Jimmy looks at Rosalyn and says “thank goodness for Joe Biden, at least for a brief time, I may not be the living worst ex-president.”

https://www.breitbart.com/asia...ight-climate-change/

A Taliban representative told Newsweek in an interview Monday that the jihadist organization will, if permitted, play an indispensable role on the international stage in fighting climate change, among other supposed global challenges.

The magazine discussed the potential of the Taliban, now in power as Afghanistan’s government for over a week, to receive recognition from the international community as a legitimate governing body.

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at the moment no one has recognized the taliban as a legitimate governing body

Troop draw down has begun at the airport (HKIA)

72 hrs left - only americanos flying now

Gates close for good tomorrow

Terps are toast

JoMala excuses at 4:30 est

Just heard that a recent USA Today/Suffolk poll had Bidet at 26% approval on Afghanistan, with 41% job approval and 55% disapproval. This will only get worse for the POS, for as Newt Gingrich said on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday show, “this is just the opening of the nightmare,” of course, only referring to this recent Afghanistan debacle and not the one that started 20 January 2021.

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Originally posted by BMR:
Just heard that a recent USA Today/Suffolk poll had Bidet at 26% approval on Afghanistan, with 41% job approval and 55% disapproval. This will only get worse for the POS, for as Newt Gingrich said on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday show, “this is just the opening of the nightmare,” of course, only referring to this recent Afghanistan debacle.

Well hell, 14% of Americans still believe Elvis is alive…

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.breitbart.com/asia...ight-climate-change/

A Taliban representative told Newsweek in an interview Monday that the jihadist organization will, if permitted, play an indispensable role on the international stage in fighting climate change, among other supposed global challenges.

The magazine discussed the potential of the Taliban, now in power as Afghanistan’s government for over a week, to receive recognition from the international community as a legitimate governing body.

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at the moment no one has recognized the taliban as a legitimate governing body

Yeah, I bet they would be happy to sell all the carbon offsets any first world country could ever need.

Every head removal lowers their carbon footprint. Less people = less carbon.

I have called Biden a shit head, an idiot, a moron, a senile brain dead fool who no doubt wears attends to catch all the shit not coming from his ass, but rather from his mouth. So might I be exaggerating? I'll leave that to others to judge. But I do have one name I want to add to describe Biden. It's not an exaggeration. He is a traitor.

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at the moment no one has recognized the taliban as a legitimate governing body

I'm sure Iran is drawing up the paperwork as we speak.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-production-booms-un

In a June report to the Security Council, U.N. officials said the issue of production of poppy-based drugs and methamphetamine was "unaddressed" by the Afghan peace process

This remains the Taliban’s largest single source of income

The report also found that there was a decline in narcotics seizures by the Afghan government in 2020, which was attributed in part to the gradual expansion of Taliban-controlled territory — where the militant group was reliant on it as one of its sources of funding.

"The primary sources of Taliban financing remain criminal activities, including drug trafficking and opium poppy production, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, mineral exploitation and revenues from tax collection in areas under Taliban control or influence," the report says.

Meanwhile, CBS reported that the UNODC's Afghanistan Opium Survey found that the area under opium poppy cultivation increased by 37% in 2020 and that drug transit routes were not interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

That survey also found that potential opium production in Afghanistan was estimated at between 5,400-7,200 tons and in 2020 the area under cultivation was among the four highest ever measured.

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and this :

Lucas Tomlinson of Fox News: The U.S. military has started withdrawing from Afghanistan reducing troop presence: U.S. officials


Biden was supposed to speak on Afghanistan about noon time, but that has been pushed back to 4:30 pm

Brett Baier reporting that a deal has been done w the taliban. The U.S. is expediting the withdrawal and will be out in 72 hours

https://twitter.com/i/status/1430247974060367879


???? it is 1230 am 25 aug 2021 in Kabul. isn't that 7 days to 31 Aug ?

Watching the press conference now and she keeps saying they will get all the Americans out "who want to get out". Are there Americans who want to stay??? What a cluster. This administration is perfectly fine with leaving Americans behind.

Unbelievable.

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Originally posted by sdy:
at the moment no one has recognized the taliban as a legitimate governing body

Technically true, but

[note: pictures and hyperlinks at linked article]

Afghan Media: China, Russia ‘Keen’ to Recognize Taliban

by FRANCES MARTEL23 Aug 2021

“China and Russia are keen to recognize Afghanistan’s new government,” the Afghan news outlet Pajhwok reported Monday, referring to the Taliban regime that stormed into power in Kabul on August 15."

The Pajhwok report also speculated that the U.S. government was far less likely to go along with recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. In an interview shortly after the Taliban ousted the U.S.-backed Afghan government, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the administration of President Joe Biden was open to working with a government that “upholds the basic rights of its people and that doesn’t harbor terrorists.”

The Taliban itself is a terrorist organization and, while spokesmen have repeatedly insisted the jihadists would recognize basic human rights while ruling, widespread reports surfaced nearly immediately after the Taliban takeover that jihadists were violently assaulting people, including American citizens. Women in journalism and other public-facing careers reported that Taliban jihadis had begun preventing them from reaching their offices and reports began surfacing of extreme abuses against women and girls throughout the country.

Pajhwok cited “analysts” who said that Russia and China, neighbors to Afghanistan, would likely seek a situation that maximizes stability in the region. The report is the latest of several suggesting that both nations, enemy states to America, may soon embrace the legitimacy of the Taliban despite the discord between their national authoritarian regimes and the Taliban’s adherence to radical Islam. China is an atheist communist state, while under leader Vladimir Putin Moscow maintains a less ideologically defined authoritarian state centered on the longtime ruler.

“An opportunistic China is certain to exploit the new opening to make strategic inroads into mineral-rich Afghanistan and deepen its penetration of Pakistan, Iran, and Central Asia,” Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research, told Reuters on Monday. Afghanistan is home to particularly vast reserves of rare earth metals, critical in the manufacturing of high tech products like mobile phone batteries. Chinese officials have long expressed interest in expanding their domination of the rare earth market and, as recently as last week, Chinese government publications described Beijing’s interests in the industry in Afghanistan as a prime motivator in diplomacy.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a bizarre statement on August 16, the first day it held its regular press conference after the Taliban took over the country, vowing that the Communist Party would “respect the will and choice of the Afghan people.” Spokeswoman Hua Chunying confirmed diplomatic conversations between the Communist Party and Taliban terrorists but avoided recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, instead repeating, “China respects the Afghan people’s right to decide on their own future independently.”

The Taliban did not come to power through elections and its spokesmen have confirmed they have no plans to ever hold elections, as democracy is incompatible with their interpretation of sharia, or the Islamic law.

Several analysts speaking to CNBC on Monday concluded, like those speaking to Reuters and Pajhwok, that Beijing would be open to recognizing the Taliban as legitimate “at some point” so long as they behaved “normally,” meaning that they did not engage in widespread human rights abuses that would embarrass China. China is the world’s most prolific human rights abuser and is currently engaging in genocide against the ethnic Uyghur people of western Xinjiang.

Russia’s relationship with the Taliban is more complicated given the history of war between the Soviet Union and the mujihadeen forces that eventually became the modern Taliban. Russia, unlike China, also has radical Islamist elements engaging in terrorism in its restive Chechnya region and topped the list of non-Muslim countries attracting foreign recruits to the Islamic State at the height of that group’s “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.

Russia has also designated the Taliban a terrorist organization, complicating its potential status as a legitimate government. As of July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Putin regime had “nothing new” on any plans to lift the designation in the near future. The Kremlin has not weighed in on any potential changes in the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul. Zamir Kabulov, Putin’s special envoy to Afghanistan, did hint that legitimacy for the Taliban in the eyes of Moscow remains a possibility.

“The Russian leadership will make a decision on recognizing the regime of the Taliban movement, depending on how responsibly they will govern the country,” Kabulov said following the Taliban victory in the country, without elaborating. “No one is going to hurry in this regard. The recognition or the non-recognition will depend on the behavior of the new authorities.”

Reports of Russian attempts to build a relationship with the Taliban go as far as 2007, presumably in an attempt to leverage the Taliban’s opposition to the United States.

“We had a common enemy,” an unnamed “senior Taliban official” told Reuters that year. “We needed support to get rid of the United States and its allies in Afghanistan and Russia wanted all foreign troops to leave Afghanistan as quickly as possible.”

More recently, Russia has — like China — attempted to insert itself into the next phase of the Afghan conflict in light of President Donald Trump signing an agreement with the Taliban that would have seen American forces leave the country by May 1, 2021. Biden broke the deal and changed the date, first to September 11, then to August 31. Last week, Biden suggested American troops would have to remain in the country beyond August 31.

Russia participated in what it called an “extended Troika conference on Afghanistan reconciliation” in April in Qatar, home to the Taliban’s political headquarters during the time of the Republic of Afghanistan, in April, the same month Biden announced he would break the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban.

Following the Taliban’s victory in Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued remarks stating the Taliban would “restory public order” and appearing to describe the terrorist group’s conquest as a “stabilizing” development for Afghanistan. Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov also repeatedly disparaged the former Afghan government, and particularly fleeing ex-President Ashraf Ghani, while assuring allied Afghan neighbors that Russia does not consider the Taliban a threat to state neighbors.

Taliban Appoints Former Gitmo Detainee As Afghanistan's New Defense Minister

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...new-defense-minister

Afghanistan’s new Taliban government has appointed former Guantanamo detainee mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir as it’s acting defense minister, according to Qatari based Al Jazeera news channel on Tuesday, subsequently reported in Reuters.

He was among the first senior Taliban commanders to enter Kabul last week as the group overran the capital amid the American troop exit, and after US-trained national forces largely fled. Until being named as Defense Minister, Qayyum was deputy to the Taliban’s commander-in-chief, Mullah Yaqoob.

He was freed from the notorious US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007, despite being rumored to have been close to the Taliban’s spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.

In 2010 The Associated Press noted that he had gone straight back to the battlefield after a brief stint in an Afghanistan jail, despite telling American military interrogators he desired to live a peaceful life as a civilian.

"A Taliban commander in the 1990s who was notorious for brutality and summary executions, Qayyum was captured in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and taken to Guantanamo," the AP wrote at the time.

"According to transcripts, he identified himself to his American captors by his father’s name, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, and said he had been conscripted by the Taliban but left at the first opportunity," the report said.

He reportedly told US officials while imprisoned, "I want to go back home and join my family and work in my land and help my family."

Qayyum was released to the custody of the Afghan government in December 2007 along with a dozen other Afghan prisoners, and held at a jail on the outskirts of eastern Kabul, before Afghan authorities let him go a year later, after which he rejoined the Taliban.

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...she keeps saying they will get all the Americans out "who want to get out". Are there Americans who want to stay???

She's been saying that for pretty much the last week, and I've been wondering the same. Is there something more to her verbal gymnastics than usual?

I don't believe or trust a thing she says, but by and large she chooses her words pretty carefully (because it isn't easy "covering" for this administration), yet she keeps saying that, like perhaps later on someone will pop up who's "stranded" there, and they'll claim they didn't "know" they wanted to "get out"...

Liz Cheney blaming Trump on Cavuto for Afghanistan.

The only thing Biden cares about is holding a big party on Sept. 11th to celebrate how he pulled us out of AFG. Ice cream all around! We Won!

And while he is doing this the taliban will be posting beheading videos of Americans on twitter.

Brett Baier reporting that our military is now only taking American citizens at the Kabul airport. He adds that our military is expected to be out in 72 hours...

https://twitter.com/KassyDillo...s-troops-ar-n2594665


Is This Why Joe Biden Is Late for His Afghanistan Address? It's Not Good, Folks.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...s-troops-ar-n2594665

What is going on with this guy? He was supposed to address the nation on the crisis in Afghanistan two hours ago. Now, it says he will read the teleprompter at 4:30 PM—a full four-and-a-half hours later than originally scheduled. Was there a tantrum? Did he need a nap? We have Americans that are stranded. They’re being beaten by the Taliban. US passports are also reportedly being seized by the Taliban as well. And where is Biden? Where is he hiding? Only a Democrat would be this late addressing the chaos where our citizens are in the line of fire. Why are they so bad at this?

Is it because our troops have begun to leave? Maybe. Yes, when this much time passes by—things being to leak. We're hearing that not only are we not extending our August 31 deadline—we’re leaving…NOW.

When it looks like we’re going to leave 7,000 Americans behind and trust the Taliban with ensuring their safety and security—I wouldn’t want to answer questions either let alone talk, but Joe could have signed off on operations to get our people. The French did it. Our European allies are rightfully infuriated, feeling like the rug was ripped from under them. They want the deadline to be extended. And Biden did promise them in June that Kabul would remain secure.

Joe is adamant that he just wants to leave, consequences be damned. These people don’t care. They’re disengaged. Joe cannot do the job. We have no president. and the lasting damage that’s being done right now will be substantial.


https://www.foxnews.com/live-n...ey-close-in-on-kabul

1 hour(s) ago

U.S. military has started withdrawing from Afghanistan: U.S. officials
The breaking news comes shortly after President Biden decided not to extend his deadline of Aug. 31 to withdraw.

“Things have departed,” an official said about the beginning of the withdrawal. “We can still defend the airport,” the official said.

There are fewer American troops at the airport in Kabul today than there were yesterday.

It was notable at the top of the Pentagon new conference that the number of U.S. troops on the ground was not mentioned. For days, the number of American troops flooding into Kabul airport was part of the daily release of information.

“We are still able to get Americans out who want to evacuate,” one official said.



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US embassy issues last alert for US citizens to leave afghanistan or they’re on their own, then recalls it 30 mins later.