Here is a good article on the financial angle of funding these terrorist.
If the Biden regime is allowed to remain in the White House we will be funding the Taliban again shortly.

Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell
Creating a hostage situation is a great pretext for funding Islamic terrorists.

On August 14, Secretary of State Blinken spoke with Afghanistan’s former president and promised that the Biden administration would provide a bulk shipment of dollars.

The next day Kabul fell.
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Originally posted by NK402:
I wonder how many more press conferences like today Biden can survive.

One is too many.

New 'head of security for Kabul' is a US-wanted terrorist with $5M bounty.

https://www.aol.com/news/talib...ption=login_required

https://news.yahoo.com/taliban...anted-165200854.html

The needle of my 'Am I surprised?' meter hasn't even quivered.

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CSLINGER- "At least we got rid of the Orange Guy". And that's all they care about.
"Orange man bad, Orange man gone, Yayyy us!"

I don't think the average American knows what's going on or cares what's going on. They're so self centered and self absorbed they're clueless. Enough people have to wake up to make a difference in the Primaries or nothing can be done about any of this shit. Maria Bartiromo had on some Congressman the other morning (I didn't catch who it was). He said we're going to hold Joe Biden accountable. When she asked him what they're going to do towards that goal all he could do was stumble, stammer, and talk about 2022.

Yes, totally disheartening the last 10 days with this mess. I expect some air strikes before long, once targets are sorted out. If nothing else, the administration will be trying to get away from the current narrative.

I still go all the way back to those terrorist training camps after 9-11. My idea was to destroy them & those attached, find Bin Laden then leave. I was never into trying to fix Afghanistan, still ain’t.

Air strikes? Possibly. At actual targets - probably not. It will be for show and media bytes.

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What appalls me is the magnitude of apathy, indifference, and ignorance of the American people who will give these events little, if any, thought.

I can’t express in words my anger, disgust, and disappointment at this time.

Those same people will be breathless with how scary and awful the “insurrection” on Jan 6th was. How we almost lost the country from a hostile takeover. They believe it.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
Here is a good article on the financial angle of funding these terrorist.
If the Biden regime is allowed to remain in the White House we will be funding the Taliban again shortly...

Thanks for sharing that, it was an interesting article.

I'm reminded of working for a small company 30 + years ago. During the 'salad days' of the '80s the company did well, especially with a government contract and we frequently ordered hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods net 90/ net 120. But once the '90s rolled around, the Cold War over and massive defense spending cuts, our customers scaled back their spending as well. We were on the edge of bankruptcy and the company owner took drastic measures, including requiring a purchase order for every department order, and every order placed was C.O.D.

One of the lessons that I learned from that experience was a from a question the company owner would ask any of us, if we proposed ordering something or spending money for an improvement. He would ask us "is this going to fix a problem and make money for us, or are we simply throwing money at a problem?"

Reading that article you can see the consistency in how Democrats approach both domestic and foreign policies, by simply throwing tax payer money at problems rather than actually trying to solve them.

Here is an article that echoes the article you posted, but I think does a better job of explaining just how Afghanistan's economy is rapidly crashing, and under Taliban rule will likely accelerate the crash, creating another humanitarian crisis...thus requiring an international crisis response.

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Afghanistan’s Currency Collapse: Billions Frozen By U.S. And IMF

By
David Marsanic
August 19, 2021

As the Taliban seizes control of Afghanistan, the macroeconomic outlook for the country is rapidly worsening.

On Tuesday, the USD/AFN exchange rate increased rapidly from 80 to 86, after briefly touching 100. However, the outlook for Afghanistan’s Afghani (AFN) is much worse than even those numbers show.

Frozen Reserves

The Central Bank of Afghanistan (or Da Afghanistan Bank – DAB) holds about $10.0 billion in international reserves. This includes foreign currency, U.S. treasuries and gold.

These reserves previously helped stabilize the value of a country’s currency, just like gold did in the past.

However, much of these reserves are now inaccessible to the new regime. As Ajmal Ahmady, the acting governor of DAB explains, these reserves are not in Afghanistan.

In fact, most of that money is held in foreign accounts — including $7 billion held with the Federal Reserve.

As the Taliban are still designated as a terror organization, it is unlikely it will get that money back.

“I can’t imagine a scenario where Treasury/OFAC would given Taliban access to such funds,” Ahmady stated in a series of tweets after fleeing the country.

He estimates that the Taliban have access to only about 0.1-0.2% of Afghanistan’s total international reserves.

But that is not all. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently approved a $650 billion allocation in Special Drawing Rights (SDR), the IMF’s reserve currency. That amounted to $340 million.

Many questioned whether the IMF would honor the agreement. Soon, the IMF confirmed the speculation and stated that it will not allow the Taliban to access the SDRs.

Total Dependence On Foreign Aid

This will lead to even more dire consequences for the economy since Afghanistan was heavily dependent on U.S. aid.

About 75% of government spending is financed by other governments and international organizations, according to World Bank.

This unsustainable model was supported by the U.S. taxpayers with the U.S. “investing” billions in the country.

The spending includes a total of $82.9 billion on the Afghanistan Security Forces. These are the same forces collapsed days after U.S. troops started withdrawing.

It is unlikely that these grants will continue now that the Taliban is in charge. The Taliban will have to cut spending or find another way to create money.

Going The Way Of Zimbabwe?

That’s where new problems begin. If the new regime decides to print money to pay for salaries of government employees, a currency crisis is inevitable.

Without international reserves to back it up, the currency will fall rapidly. Prices will skyrocket, hurting the people the most.

As a result, many Afghans will want to convert the local currency to U.S. dollars. This will likely prompt the Taliban to implement capital controls to limit the inflow of dollars.

These methods won’t work, as the example of Zimbabwe shows.

Like Zimbabwe, Afghanistan will likely be heading for hyperinflation.

Since ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the deadly Afghanistan terror attacks, I wanted to know a little more about them.

I caught an interview with former Ambassador and DNI, Rick Grennell. He explained that while the Taliban and al Qaeda support each other's goals and have a working relationship, ISIS-K and the Taliban have a contentious relationship. According to him, the three groups have a (tenuous) agreement. The agreement was that al Qaeda and ISIS-K would operate outside Afghanistan without any competition or interference from the Taliban internationally. In exchange, the Taliban would provide safe haven for al Qaeda and ISIS-K in Afghanistan with al Qaeda and ISIS-K agreeing to stay out of Afghanistan's domestic rule by the Taliban.

The Taliban is seeking 'legitimacy' on the world stage, and they need the Kabul airport to stay open. The terror attacks were not only directed at civilians and U.S. troops, but also ISIS-K's method for embarrassing/ insulting the Taliban and raising doubt in their ability to legitimately rule.

So, it's looking like ISIS-K has decided to break the delicate agreement with the Taliban.

A good article on ISIS-K

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Who Is ‘ISIS-K’? Taliban Splinter Group Allegedly Responsible For Kabul Terror Attack

By Charlotte Pence Bond
Aug 26, 2021 DailyWire.com

Several explosions occurred near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday in Afghanistan, and a branch of the terrorist group, the Islamic State, is suspected to have played a part in the attacks.

The group is known as “ISIS-K,” which specifies it as the “Khorasan” branch of the Islamic State in Afghanistan. Khorasan is a wider historical region and “a vast territory now lying in northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan,” per Britannica.

A 2018 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted, “Like the Islamic State’s core leadership in Iraq and Syria, IS-K seeks to establish a Caliphate beginning in South and Central Asia, governed by sharia law, which will expand as Muslims from across the region and world join.”

On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that the group was formed six years ago “by disaffected Pakistani Taliban.” It has gone through with dozens of attacks in Afghanistan this year. “American military and intelligence analysts say threats from the group include a bomb-laden truck, suicide bombers infiltrating the crowd outside Hamid Karzai International Airport and mortar strikes against the airfield,” the outlet reported on Wednesday.

CTV News of Canada reported, “In the first four months of 2021, the UN says that there were 77 attacks in Afghanistan that were attributed to or claimed by ISIS-K. That’s up from the same period in 2020, which saw only 21 ISIS-K attacks.”

Katherine Zimmerman, a fellow in foreign and defense policy for the American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News that the organization has a stricter view of its interpretation of Islam than the Taliban does, which has created an antagonistic relationship between the two groups.

“They define their enemies differently,” she said. “The Islamic State sees anybody who does not accept its vision as an enemy – that includes the Taliban, that includes the Shia, that includes the west,” Zimmerman added.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden mentioned the terrorist group, saying, “There are real and significant challenges that we also have to take into consideration. The longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as ISIS-K, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan — which is the sworn enemy of the Taliban as well — every day we’re on the ground is another day we know that ISIS-K is seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and Allied forces and innocent civilians.”

A former intelligence officer and senior fellow for the Hudson Institute, Michael Pregent, told Fox News, “The Taliban is loyal to al Qaeda …They have not pledged loyalty to ISIS-K, but that doesn’t mean they won’t just pause their rivalries to go and make America bleed on the way out.”

As reported by The Daily Wire:

Multiple explosions went off near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday days before the United States expected to withdraw forces from Afghanistan. The Pentagon confirmed one explosion near the airport Thursday morning. Fox News correspondent Jen Griffin reported another explosion immediately after at Kabul’s Baron Hotel, which has been a gathering place for Americans waiting to be evacuated from the country. NEW: @JenGriffinFNC One explosion reported near Barron hotel – where Americans in past have gathered for rescue. This makes two confirmed explosions

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 26, 2021

“A U.S. military official confirmed that at least one explosion had occurred at the Abbey Gate, a main entryway to the international airport. Early reports indicated that the explosion was caused by at least one suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest. It was unclear how many people were injured or whether anyone was killed, but large crowds have been gathering at the gate in recent days,” The New York Times reported.

“Elsewhere in the city, sporadic gunfire and alarms could heard from the airport,” the outlet added.

The Daily Wire added, “The attacks come as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan and end a weeks-long rush to evacuate Americans and Afghan visa holders. The total number of injuries remain unclear, however a preliminary report indicates that at least 13 people are dead and numerous injured from the bombings.”

“Earlier on Thursday, multiple countries suspended evacuation operations over terror threats reported near the airport. Thousands of Afghans and westerners have gathered outside the perimeter of the airport over the weeks since the Taliban took control of Kabul on August 15, toppling the Afghan government and forcing the president to flee the country. Desperate Afghans have crowded around the airport attempting to catch a flight out of the country over fear of the coming Taliban rule,” The Daily Wire noted.

“Islamic State-affiliated terrorists have been reported to be in the area, setting off security alerts among U.S. officials. On Wednesday, the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan sent out an alert to Americans still in the country, warning them to stay away from the airport.”

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
Here is a good article on the financial angle of funding these terrorist.
If the Biden regime is allowed to remain in the White House we will be funding the Taliban again shortly.

Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell
Creating a hostage situation is a great pretext for funding Islamic terrorists.

On August 14, Secretary of State Blinken spoke with Afghanistan’s former president and promised that the Biden administration would provide a bulk shipment of dollars.

The next day Kabul fell.
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The video in this article from the Citizen Free Press shows the taliban showing off their pallets of $100 biden-bucks.

From the looks of it obiden was succesful in funding their mullah masters with lots of cash.

And to the points made previously by CPD, 911 and likely other’s, the sheeple of this country have not a GD clue as to the unmitigated SHIT-STORM that is heading our way.

odd they published this story while ops are still ongoing

https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...ve/story?id=79670236

US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies

With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.

Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.

The Pineapple Express' mission was underway Thursday when the attack occurred in Kabul. Two suicide bombers believed to have been ISIS fighters killed at least 13 U.S. service members -- 10 U.S. Marines, a Navy corpsman, an Army soldier and another service member -- and wounded 15 other service members, according to U.S. officials.

There were wounded among the Pineapple Express travelers from the blast, and members of the group said they were assessing whether unaccounted-for Afghans they were helping had been killed.

As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.

That number added to more than 130 others over the past 10 days who had been smuggled into the airport encircled by Taliban fighters since the capital fell to the extremists on Aug. 16 by Task Force Pineapple, an ad hoc groups of current and former U.S. special operators, aid workers, intelligence officers and others with experience in Afghanistan who banded together to save as many Afghan allies as they could.

"Dozens of high-risk individuals, families with small children, orphans, and pregnant women, were secretly moved through the streets of Kabul throughout the night and up to just seconds before ISIS detonated a bomb into the huddled mass of Afghans seeking safety and freedom," Army Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret commander who led the private rescue effort, told ABC News.

After succeeding with helping dozens of Afghan commandos and interpreters get into the protective ring of the airport created by the 6,000 American troops President Joe Biden dispatched to the airfield after Kabul fell to the Taliban, the group initiated an ambitious ground operation this week aided by U.S. troops inside. The objective was to move individuals and families through the cover of darkness on the "Pineapple Express." The week-long effort and Wednesday's operation were observed by ABC News under the agreement of secrecy while the heart-pounding movements unfolded.

The operation carried out Wednesday night was an element of "Task Force Pineapple," an informal group whose mission began as a frantic effort on Aug. 15 to get one former Afghan commando who had served with Mann into the Kabul airport as he was being hunted by the Taliban who were texting him death threats.

They knew he had worked with U.S. Special Forces and the elite SEAL Team Six for a dozen years, targeting Taliban leadership, and was, therefore, a high-value target for them, sources told ABC News.

Two months ago, this commando told ABC News he had narrowly escaped a tiny outpost in northern Afghanistan that was later overrun while awaiting his U.S. special immigrant visa to be approved.

The effort since he was saved in a harrowing effort, along with his family of six, reached a crescendo this week with dozens of covert movements coordinated virtually on Wednesday by more than 50 people in an encrypted chat room, which Mann described as a night full of dramatic scenes rivaling a "Jason Bourne" thriller unfolding every 10 minutes.

The small groups of Afghans repeatedly encountered Taliban foot soldiers who they said beat them but never checked identity papers that might have revealed them as operators who spent two decades killing Taliban leadership. All carried U.S. visas, pending visa applications or new applications prepared by members of Task Force Pineapple, they told ABC News.

"This Herculean effort couldn't have been done without the unofficial heroes inside the airfield who defied their orders to not help beyond the airport perimeter, by wading into sewage canals and pulling in these targeted people who were flashing pineapples on their phones," Mann said.

With the uniformed U.S. military unable to venture outside the airport's perimeter to collect Americans and Afghans who've sought U.S. protection for their past joint service, they instead provided overwatch and awaited coordinated movements by an informal Pineapple Express ground team that included “conductors” led by former Green Beret Capt. Zac Lois, known as the underground railroad's “engineer.”

The Afghan operators, assets, interpreters and their families were known as “passengers” and they were being guided remotely by “shepherds," who are, in most cases their loyal former U.S. special operations forces and CIA comrades and commanders, according to chat room communications viewed by ABC News.

There was one engineer, a few conductors, as well as people who were performing intelligence-gathering duties. The intelligence was pooled in the encrypted chat group in real-time and included guiding people on maps to GPS pin drops at rally points for them to stage in the shadows and in hiding until summoned by a conductor wearing a green chem light, ABC News observed in the encrypted chat.

Once summoned, passengers would hold up their smartphones with a graphic of yellow pineapples on a pink field.

Before the deadly ISIS-K bombing on Thursday near the Abbey Gate of the airport known as HKIA, intelligence warnings were issued about possible improvised explosive device attacks by ISIS-K. Around 8 p.m. EST Wednesday, the shepherds reported in the chatroom, which was viewed by ABC News, one by one that their passenger groups maneuvering discreetly in the darkness toward rally points had suddenly gone dark and were unreachable on their cell phones.

"We have lost comms with several of our teams," texted Jason Redman, a combat-wounded former Navy SEAL and author, who was shepherding Afghans he knew.

There was concern the Taliban had dropped the cell towers -- but another Task Force Pineapple member, a Green Beret, reported that he learned the U.S. military had employed cell phone jammers to counter the IED threat at Abbey gate. Within an hour, most had reestablished communications with the "passengers" and the slow, deliberate movements of each group resumed under the ticking clock of sunrise in Kabul, ABC News observed in the encrypted chat.

"The whole night was a roller-coaster ride. People were so terrified in that chaotic environment. These people were so exhausted, I kept trying to put myself in their shoes," Redman said.

Looking back at an effort that saved at least, by their count, 630 Afghan lives, Redman expressed deep frustration "that our own government didn't do this. We did what we should do, as Americans."

Many of the Afghans arrived near Abbey Gate and waded through a sewage-choked canal toward a U.S. soldier wearing red sunglasses to identify himself. They waved their phones with the pineapples and were scooped up and brought inside the wire to safety. Others were brought in by an Army Ranger wearing a modified American flag patch with the Ranger Regiment emblem, sources told ABC News.

Lois said the Task Force Pineapple was able to accomplish a truly historic event, by evacuating hundreds of personnel over the last week.

"That is an astounding number for an organization that was only assembled days before the start of operations and most of its members had never met each other in person," Lois told ABC News.

Lois said he modeled his slow and steady system of maneuvering the Afghan families in the darkness after Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad for American slave escapees.

The Afghan passengers represented the span of the two-decade war there, and participants included Army Maj. Jim Gant, a retired Green Beret known as "Lawrence of Afghanistan," who was the subject of a 2014 "Nightline" investigation.

"I have been involved in some of the most incredible missions and operations that a special forces guy could be a part of, and I have never been a part of anything more incredible than this," Gant told ABC News. "The bravery and courage and commitment of my brothers and sisters in the Pineapple community was greater than the U.S. commitment on the battlefield."

"I just want to get my people out," he added.

Dan O'Shea, a retired SEAL commander, said he successfully helped his own group, which included a U.S. citizen who served as an operative and his Afghan father and brother in a nail-biting crucible as they walked on foot to one entry point after another for hours. They dodged Taliban checkpoints and patrols in order to get inside the U.S. side of the airport and on a plane out of Kabul.

"He was not willing to let his father and his brother behind; even it meant he would die. He refused to leave his family," O'Shea, a former counterinsurgency adviser in Afghanistan, told ABC News. "Leaving a man behind is not in our SEAL ethos. Many Afghans have a stronger vision of our democratic values than many Americans do."

It all began with trying to save one Afghan Commando, whose special immigrant visa was never finalized.

During an intense night last week involving coordination between Mann and another Green Beret, an intelligence officer, former aid workers and a staffer for Florida Republican and Green Beret officer Rep. Mike Waltz, the ad hoc team enlisted the aid of a sleepless U.S. Embassy officer inside the airport. He helped Marines at a gate to identify the former Afghan commando, who was caught in the throngs of civilians outside the airport and who said he saw two civilians knocked to the ground and killed.

"Two people died next to me -- 1 foot away," he told ABC News from outside the airport that night, as he tried for hours to reach an entry control point manned by U.S. Marines a short distance away.

With Taliban fighters mixing into the crowd of thousands and firing their AK-47s above the masses, the former elite commando was finally pulled into the U.S. security perimeter, where he shouted the password "Pineapple!" to American troops at the checkpoint. The password has since changed, the sources said.

Two days later, the group of his American friends and comrades also helped get his family inside the airport to join him with the aid of the same U.S. embassy officer.

Mann said the group of friends decided to keep going by saving his family and hundreds more of his elite forces comrades on the run from the Taliban.

Former deputy assistant secretary of defense and ABC News analyst Mick Mulroy is part of both Task Force Pineapple and Task Force Dunkirk, who are assisting former Afghan comrades.

"They never wavered. I and many of my friends are here today because of their bravery in battle. We owe them all effort to get them out and honor our word," Mulroy said.

I was glad to hear, during his press conference yesterday, former Vice President Biden called for the lowering of the flag to Half Staff to honor those Marines that were murdered . Oh wait, he didn't, my bad.

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odd they published this story while ops are still ongoing

Great story, and thanks for sharing...and yeah, these are details best saved for interviews and books much later, not while evacuations are ongoing. But, media can't be bothered to think past their own selfish interests.

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Former deputy assistant secretary of defense and ABC News analyst Mick Mulroy is part of both Task Force Pineapple and Task Force Dunkirk, who are assisting former Afghan comrades.

This might have something to do with the story being released now.

If you look at the video of Biden raising his face after putting it in hands yesterday, there’s a split second evil smirk on his face that quickly goes away. He’s a complete sociopath.

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Originally posted by sdy:
odd they published this story while ops are still ongoing

Great story, and thanks for sharing...and yeah, these are details best saved for interviews and books much later, not while evacuations are ongoing. But, media can't be bothered to think past their own selfish interests.

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Former deputy assistant secretary of defense and ABC News analyst Mick Mulroy is part of both Task Force Pineapple and Task Force Dunkirk, who are assisting former Afghan comrades.

This might have something to do with the story being released now.

The media will do what the media does, put out 'news' in an effort to make themselves appear as the portal of information. Revealing rescue operations is the work of the State & DoD's PR teams in an effort to put out 'any good news'; naturally they completely overlook the fact that there's still more to do and danger continues.

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...Army Maj. Jim Gant, a retired Green Beret known as "Lawrence of Afghanistan," who was the subject of a 2014 "Nightline" investigation.

One of the most successful unconventional warriors who understood the tribal culture and how to work that culture to our advantage. His undoing was having an affair with a reporter at his FOB.

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News there would be “eight or nine” evacuation flights on Friday, and they will be the last. British troops will leave over the next few days.

The European NATO nations of Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark likewise have ended their operations while Poland already suspended their operations early on the 25th.

The Spanish government said it has ended its evacuation operation while French European affairs minister, Clement Beaune, said on French radio Europe 1 that France would stop “soon” but may seek to extend it until after Friday night.

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I was glad to hear, during his press conference yesterday, former Vice President Biden called for the lowering of the flag to Half Staff to honor those Marines that were murdered . Oh wait, he didn't, my bad.

Yesterday, Wyoming’s Governor, Mark Gordon, ordered flags at half-staff until August 30th in honor of the Marines and Navy Corpsman who lost their lives.

This morning, Press Secretary, Psaki announced the federal proclamation.

Just finished watching today’s Pentagon press briefing. Spokesman Kirby used the term “laser focused” in a response to a question about the larger geopolitical issues. I’ve heard this term used repeatedly by the Biden White House personnel, both press secretary Jen Psaki and Comms director Kate Beddingfield. This truly indicates that these numbskulls believe that some focus group tested wording makes a difference eve n when their world is imploding. While I take any press briefing with many grains of salt, apparent slavish devotion to a talking point from the political side demeans the Pentagon.....

Not trying to second guess the military operations at the Kabul airport, I had a thought this morning.

With all the capabilities of the United States why wasn't every evacuee made to pass through a scanner to look for weapons or explosives before being allowed so close to large groups of U.S. soldiers?

There could have been a makeshift fortified bunker for the soldiers to stay in while viewing the scanner monitor.

^^I think it's in a post a few pages back, but I read that the Taliban controlled the flow of refugees through checkpoints that led to the US and NATO staffed gates at the airport. What the Taliban security was like...can't say (other than checking for visas, permits, and beating people).