Anyone who has been almost sober in the past two weeks knows that the situation there is definitely a disaster. As we approached the withdrawal deadline, the Biden White House boasted that more than 100,000 people had been evacuated; this is the second Berlin airlift, doncha know? (Look If you think Afghanistan is a disaster, you miss the big picture.Get ready to be told this is the new Berlin airlift.) This number is extremely deceptive.
Kirby said that more than 100,000 people were evacuated, and less than 7,000 Afghan SIVs (people who helped us during the war) were in the United States and are being processed.
(This is actually a low number compared to the total number of Afghan SIVs that helped our troops/diplomats in the 20 Years War).
— Christina Wang (@kristina_wong) August 27, 2021
The total is calculated based on the United States and allies.https://t.co/m5wuqxykor “Since August 14th, we have evacuated more than 104,000 civilians from Hong Kong International Airport, the United States has evacuated more than 66,000 civilians, and our allies and partners have evacuated more than 37,000 civilians. This includes bringing out approximately 5,000 Americans. people.
— Gale🍁 (@Gale20834747) August 27, 2021
That was 11,000 friendly matches. I don’t know who the other 90,000 people are.
Even with this number, thousands of Americans are still missing. Some of them may have left the country by other means, but most of them will stay in Kabul, where we rely on the Taliban to evacuate them…Of course, this begs the question, why the Taliban will evacuate when we leave They, why are we there?
From this confusion, there is some good news. Two U.S. congressmen decided to take an unaccompanied and unannounced trip to Kabul to see for themselves the scope of the problem.Of course, the Pentagon is crazy, but this is what the little tyrant did when confronted; see Nothing is more “highly organized” than a visit to Kabul by two members of Congress without anyone telling the White House or the Pentagon. ABC too Report good news:
As the Taliban became more violent and increased checkpoints near Kabul Airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans War in Afghanistan Members of the organization told ABC News that the organization launched a final bold mission called “Pineapple Express” on Wednesday night to bring hundreds of Afghan elite troops and their families to safety. .
The organization stated that they moved after nightfall in near-black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, working informally with the U.S. military and the U.S. Embassy to move people, sometimes one or two at a time, but rarely more than A small bunch, inside the wire on the side of Hamid Karzai International Airport controlled by the US military.
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As of Thursday morning, the organization stated that as many as 500 Afghan special operations personnel, assets and supporters and their families had been brought into Kabul Airport overnight, and each of them was handed over to the US military for protective supervision.
Since the capital was occupied by extremists on August 16, more than 130 people have been smuggled to the airport surrounded by Taliban militants in the past 10 days. Pineapple Task Force, A special team composed of current and former U.S. special operations personnel, aid personnel, intelligence officials, and others with experience in Afghanistan, who unite to save as many Afghan allies as possible.
Although it’s nice to see this team spirit among the former special operations forces operators and between them and their counterparts in Afghanistan, it’s a shame that these people have to pay for their own money to go to Kabul, and then there is nothing to do with you. When the Taliban came into contact, even the fragile protection provided by the law of land warfare… It can be said that their actions violated the United Nations Mercenary Convention… Because the US armed forces at Hamid Karzai International Airport are prohibited from conducting such operations (see The British evacuation commander says he has withdrawn from discussions between the U.S. and the Taliban plus the best rumors of the day).
