By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 25, 2021
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Canada Free Press (CFP) called it right yesterday when flat-out asking: “Is Sneaky Joe planning to spring a U-Turn by ceasing to ‘negotiate’ with the terrorists, performing an 11th hour stand-up to the Taliban to try to come up smelling like a rose, now that Pelosi has rammed through her $3.5 trillion Green New Deal spending package under the cover of “infrastructure”?(CFP: Is The Horror In Afghanistan The Cost For the Democrats’ Green New Deal And $7 Trillion Spending Spree?, Aug. 24, 2021)
“Biden said Tuesday that the completion of US forces’ evacuation operation at Kabul’s international airport by the end of this month “depends on the Taliban continuing to cooperate,” and confirmed that he had asked the Pentagon and the State Department for “contingency plans to adjust the timetable, should that become necessary.” (NY Post)
- “Biden made the comparison during a video call with military officials last week.
- “He was discussing evacuating people from outside the Kabul airport.
- “Biden didn't want rescue mission to turn into 'Black Hawk Down,' when US choppers were shot down and troops were dragged through the street in 1993.
- “On Monday, 16 Americans were rescued two hours away from the Kabul airport.
- “But the administration says US troops are not 'operating' outside the airport.
- “Biden and the Taliban have negotiated an increased perimeter around the airport to let evacuees get through.
- “The US military has evacuated 48,000 people from Kabul since August 14.”
“Biden delivered his latest update on the ongoing chaos in brief remarks from the Roosevelt Room at the White House. He spoke for approximately 13 minutes — the first five of which were devoted to his domestic agenda — and took no questions from the press pool. “The president insisted that the US and its allies “are currently on a pace” to finish evacuations by Aug. 31 — a date the Taliban has said is a “red line” beyond which no American troops can remain. “The sooner we can finish, the better,” the president said. “Each day of operations brings added risk to our troops.” He cited the threat of an attack by the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, known as ISIS-K. “Every day we’re on the ground is another day we know that ISIS-K is seeking to target the airport and attack both US and Allied forces and innocent civilians,” Biden said. "Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted to reporters that the evacuations of Americans, Europeans and their Afghan allies would have to stop sometime before the 31st in order to buy time for US forces to leave the country safely along with their equipment.
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“There would need to be time to wind down the presence,” the press secretary said.(NY Post) “Biden spoke a little more than seven hours after meeting virtually with leaders of the G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom) as well as the European Union, NATO and the United Nations. “America’s European allies have called on Biden to extend US forces’ stay beyond the end of this month to ensure that as many people as possible can get out of Afghanistan. “The president also sought to assuage concerns raised by some conservatives about the vetting of thousands of Afghan refugees who are being brought to America. He vowed that “anyone arriving in the United States will have undergone a background check” and called on Americans to work together to help the new arrivals resettle. “Biden estimated in an interview last week that between 10,000 and 15,000 Americans were in Afghanistan, which was reconquered by the Taliban earlier this month. Earlier Tuesday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that approximately 4,000 “American passport holders” had been flown out of Afghanistan along with their families. “However, lawmakers from both parties have said that not enough time remains to get every American out of Afghanistan before the deadline.
“Biden promised at the end of his remarks that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would provide a complete accounting Wednesday of “exactly how many Americans are still in Afghanistan, how many we got out, and what our projection is.”(NY POst) “Both the State Department and Pentagon had scrapped briefings scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to make way for the president’s remarks, which were originally scheduled for noon, then pushed back to 2 p.m., then 4:30 p.m., and were delivered shortly after 5 p.m.”It’s only a matter of time before the Democrats and their running dog media try to make Obama’s former vice-president the ‘Hero Who Saved Afghanistan’. The Taliban—including the five commanders released from Gitmo by Barack Obama in 2014—will be part of the ‘Biden saved Afghanistan Act’. Don’t let Merlin the Magician, now most prominent on the world stage, or the Taliban fool you on the August 31 deadline, which because Kabul is eight and a half hours ahead of us, ends at 3:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, August 31st—and any time after—or before—Kabul will explode. under Taliban victory. Meanwhile since the majority of the American MSM and social media won’t do it, GO, DAILY MAIL, GO, NEW YORK POST, GO
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