My latest in PJ Media:
Monday morning at the Defense Department briefing on the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, Army Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor found something to boast about amid the catastrophe of the Biden administration and its woke military: Taylor touted the military’s efficiency in getting Afghans out of the Taliban’s clutches and into the United States. At least 2,500 Afghans are already here, and many more are coming.
“As of this morning,” Taylor said proudly, “within the last 24 hours, 25 U.S. military C-17s, three U.S. military C-130s, and then a combination of 61 charter, commercial, and other military flights departed Kabul. The total passenger count, uh, for those flights, was approximately 16,000. Uh, of that number, the U.S. military transported just under 11,000 personnel.” These people were flown to various American bases around the world, which Taylor oddly presented as a sign of the marvelous cooperation that the U.S. gets from our allies: “Our mission remains focused on ensuring a steady flow of evacuees out of Kabul to the intermediate staging bases and safe havens, and our installations, uh, continue to rapidly build out capacity as needed to ensure reception and providing humanitarian, uh, assistance. The use of temporary safe haven locations across Europe and the Middle East, uh, to — in areas that include U.S. installations in Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Italy, Spain, and Germany. We deeply appreciate the support, uh, from those countries. This is truly a testament, uh, to the importance of our alliances and our partnerships.”
Those “safe havens” are evidently only temporary, with the United States being the ultimate destination. Many Afghans are already here. Taylor continued: “In the past 24 hours, uh, five flights landed at Dulles International Airport, with approximately 1,300 passengers. At this time, four military installations, as well as Dulles International, are receiving Afghans as they, uh, come into the United States. These installations include Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Fort Lee, Virginia; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey; and Fort Bliss, Texas. The total number currently at these installations is approximately 1,200, and NORTHCOM continues to build out capacity, uh, to ensure they are prepared to receive more flights that will come in the next few days.” That’s 2,500 Afghans already here, and many more on the way.
Asked by a reporter named Bob about the military’s current airlift capacity, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby took the opportunity to assure the American public that these Afghans are being carefully vetted: “We had set a goal of 5 to 9,000 a day. Yesterday we exceeded that. We’re not taking anything for granted, Bob, uh, we’re taking this day by day. We’d love to see those numbers continue to rise, uh, but we’re gonna just take it day by day. There’s a lot of factors that go into being able to reach that output capacity, to include, uh, temporary safe havens that you can bring these individuals to as they complete their screening, uh, and the screening is a big part of that. We have, uh, intelligence and law enforcement personnel, uh, at these sites, making sure that robust screening is done of these individuals, so that nobody comes into the United States that hasn’t been, uh, screened in a robust manner.”
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gravenimage says
At Least 2,500 Afghan Refugees Are in the U.S. Already, and Many More Are on the Way. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Utter madness. A poster–my apologies, I do not recall who–yesterday posted a disturbingly long list of stories with Afghans raping and murdering Infidels in the west. One didn’t even wait a full day here before launching his attack on the people who had given him asylum.
mike says
and that was me. The EU have created there own issues with not holding the refugees accountable for there actions. EU nations have made it turn a blind eye to crimes of the refugees. If I walked into your house and destroyed it what would your reaction be. If I raped your wife or daughter what would your reactions be. What I really want to see is the refugees to condemn the actions of the radicals of Islam. Until then you will never convince me other wise. It’s blasphemy for any Muslim to say anything bad against another Muslim punishment is death
So the vast majority of the crimes in the EU are commits by refugees from Afghanistan. I’m sure some are good and family men but proof is not on there side Prove me wrong. I’ll wait
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mike.
mortimer says
Agree with GI: Afghan Sharia murderers, rapists and jihadists will now be flooding into Western countries. Thanks to His Fraudulency, the worst commander-in-chief ever.
Joe-mentia should be court-martialed.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer.
gravenimage says
I actually found the comment I had been thinking of, from poster Eleanor. Worth looking at again:
• Afghan migrant gets life sentence for raping, murdering German student
• Ten men convicted over gang rape in Germany (from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq)
• Outrage in Germany after Afghan migrant ‘rapes two girls
• Afghan man rapes 4-yr-old boy in toilet cubicle at German migrant centre
• Rape, killing of 13-year-old shocks Austria, 3 Afghans held
• Germany arrests 7 Afghan refugees accused of raping teen
• Germany: Afghan migrant charged with rape of 13 year old girl; second rape charge in just a month
• Four-year-old child refugee ‘raped by Afghan man’ at centre for asylum seekers in Germany
• Rape, killing of 13-year-old girl shocks Austria, three Afghans held
• Girl ‘raped by Afghan migrant who arrived as unaccompanied minor’ in Germany
• France: Afghan sentenced for raping 12 year old boy
• Four Afghans face trial for rape of French tourist in Iran
These are just some headlines from 2016 through 2021. There are many more. Biden and Johnson are evil for bringing these people into their countries.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/u-s-catholic-bishops-urge-biden-to-act-with-utmost-urgency-to-bring-30000-afghan-refugees-here#comment-2366748
Quite an ugly list–and this just covers five years. I’m sure there are more.
Eleanor says
Thank you GI for highlighting these again. This one is in the Daily Mail today if you or others missed it. All I can say is ‘unbelievable’.
“Australian fugitive wanted for murder is begging to return home after fleeing to Afghanistan for the past four years
Saied ‘Sam’ Hussaini, 32, fled Australia in 2017 after an alleged murder in Perth
Perth father Dejan Dimitrovski, 36, allegedly tortured and killed in Balga home
Hussaini used his brother’s passport to flee to Afghanistan two weeks later
He’s now waiting for evacuation flight home after Kabul taken over by the Taliban”
gravenimage says
Thanks again for that grim list, Eleanor.
This story is horrible. And I would not be surprised if Australia lets this torture murderer back in. Suicidal madness.
Infidel says
Kanzler Sebastian Kurz in Austria has done the right thing by declaring that Austria won’t take any Afghan refugees. At least in the backdrop of that 13 year old girl whose funeral too needed security to be properly observed
gravenimage says
“Kurz: Austria won’t take in any more Afghan refugees”
https://www.politico.eu/article/sebastian-kurz-austria-pm-wont-take-in-any-more-afghanistan-refugees-taliban/
Good for him!
Bikinis not Burkas says
I can tell you, they will be forming sleeper cells to create another 9/11
CogitoErgoSum says
I have no problem with helping out people who are need of help. But for the life of me I can not understand letting in people who will bring Islam with them. They wanted to live in a country ruled according to the principles of Islam. Have they changed their minds about that? If not, they should be going to a country already dominated by Islam because they, and most likely their children yet to be born, will still want to make their home a country that is ruled according to the principles of Islam. This is just so stupid.
Shirley Ann says
After all the Bowling Boys, Dancing Boys, “Interpreters” & Extended Families are Rescued, will the Woke Military begin rescuing Americans?
A legitimate Question!
Wellington says
John Kirby is part of the problem and not part of any sane solution.
Take it from here.
We are now governed by fools aplenty, starting at the top.
Do I mean Joe Biden? You bet I do. Ditto for Cackling Kamala (a total fool EVEN with an intact mind—what there is of it), the wretched Nancy Pelosi, the sycophantic Chuck Schumer, the forever mendacious Adam Schiff, and not to mention many RINOs like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney. My God, what has happened to America that such deficiencies are now in charge?
Presently, America (and by extension most of the West) is on auto-pilot. And it’s a very malfunctioning auto-pilot to be sure.
More expansively, and not to hit too hard what I have mentioned many times here at JW, the 1960’s in the West (and even acknowledging it produced some good music and absolutely necessary civil rights) is adding up as just about the most destructive decade in all of man’s history (e.g., invalidating as unconstitutional a voluntary, non-denominational school prayer in the public schools per Engel v. Vitale {1962} is just one example of how stupid man became by the 1960’s, in this case courtesy of the Warren Court which did far more damage than good). Indeed, I would assert that if one does not grasp this deleterious aspect of the 1960’s, they are either manifesting their ignorance or their mendacity because the 1960’s was an “exercise” in self-hate and self-immolation (though often times posing as wisdom) far more than it was in correcting inherent wrongs.
The best of the 1960’s could have been accomplished without all of its extensive rot. Alas, it was not and all of the West is still paying a price for this—for example, among so many other examples, Sweden in our time.
Minus the many self-congratulatory idiocies, so many of them rooted in self-hatred and faux-guilt, Sweden would be far, far better off today had it realized the “true worth” of Islam right from the beginning. Ditto for virtually all of the West (thank you, Poland, and a few other Eastern European nations for knowing only too well that after one failed totalitarian ideology, i.e., Communism, you didn’t need another, i.e., Islam). For civilization to survive it must be both muscular and judgmental at times. The West is no longer, speaking in the aggregate, either muscular or properly judgmental.
It’s almost as though once the West reached optimal mode respecting health care, retirement security, the good life in general, rights for women, confessing to wrongs of its past, et al., it stupidly, in an indefensible, self-flagellating mode concluded it didn’t deserve what it took so many centuries to ensure.
Oh yes, stupid beyond all measure. This is why, in microcosm, the West has invited into its midst the worst religion of all time under the pretense that all religions are essentially good and noble—indeed, per 1960’s think, the Islamic faith is even better and more noble than Christianity and Judaism, both of which religions accord with democratic tenets and a true Golden Rule for all far more so than Islam does (or ever will).
Enough. My God, the world is in a mess but it need not be but for idiocies like overall stupidity, self-hate, general ignorance, and freedom without either restraint or common sense inevitably descending into license.
Meanwhile, a total fool is POTUS. Not lookin’ good. Not at all. The world is adrift and barbarians like the Taliban are delighted.
PMK says
Among the worst mistakes the ‘greatest generation’ made was the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act. Rather than focus on people with skills, its highest priority was reuniting families. Instead of having skills needed in America or a willingness to assimilate, all you needed was a relative to sponsor you.
Thinker1 says
Here comes 9/11 on steroids.
Ade Fegan says
We know the pattern … Now they start to disappear and nobody knows where they’ve gone ..
Non of which could have been predicted of course !
OLD GUY says
Why is the political leaders so hell bent on bringing in these migrants over American citizen. I guess a vote from a possible future democrat migrant is more important than the lives of American citizens.
RichardL says
the have flown most of them to Ramstein AFB in German and most of them will stay there to enrich German culture with islam’s most precious practices like rape, murder, etc. Germans will elect a new government that will import millions of Afghanis. Germans deserve what they will get. At least the 90% that will vote for The Party
gravenimage says
Actually, the US has vowed that all of them will be brought to the US. Not that this is any better…
Mike says
In a year from now , we will learn that USA administration ( Biden and his handlers ) gave MILLIONS to Talibans to let American go back home . Talibans also called Freedom Fighters, Isis or Isis K are now richer thanks to our sold out president .
unbeliever1 says
Are there any assurances that none of the Al Qaeda prisoners released by their Taliban brothers is among ” the poor, the tired and the masses yearning to breathe free”?
Constantinople says
I’m more concerned about their contributions to the stealth Jihad than actual terrorism but both will be an issue. Of course the Left would call me an islamobe for such opinions. Who cares!
GreekEmpresd says
+ 1 to all of the above comments!