My latest in PJ Media:
The news out of Kabul is tragic. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby tweeted Thursday: “We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US & civilian casualties. We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate.” According to CNN’s Frida Ghitis, “Initial reports suggest four or more U.S. service personnel may have been injured or killed in the explosion.” This need not have happened: the Biden administration, which has been bragging about the success of its airlifts out of Kabul, made the decision not to prioritize getting Americans out of Afghanistan first. As of early afternoon, the American death toll was 13 and likely to rise.
The administration was much more concerned with bringing Afghans to the United States than rescuing Americans in Kabul. Kirby said on August 15: “Once we get more airlift out of Kabul, we’re going to put as many people on those planes as we can. There will be a mix…not just American citizens, but perhaps some Afghan SIV [Special Immigrant Visa] applicants as well. We’re going to focus on getting people out of the country, then sorting it out at the next stop. It’s not going to be just Americans first, then SIV applicants.”
And at a Defense Department briefing Monday, Army Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor boasted: “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.”
Those 2,500 Afghans were just a small percentage of Biden’s handlers’ plans to bring 30,000 Afghans to the United States. It’s unclear exactly how many have already arrived. Taylor was asked Monday: “You mentioned that 42,000 have been evacuated since July….Do you have any breakdown of the number of U.S. citizens in that 42,000 who have gotten out?” Perhaps aware of how much of a hot-button issue this is, he refused to reply, answering only: “I do, but I don’t have that right now.”
The Americans killed in Kabul on Thursday could have been among those who got out, but Taylor and company were more concerned with bringing over Afghans. After all, immigrants have formed a reliable voting bloc for the Democratic Party, and what’s really important here? The Biden administration capped off its manifest indifference to the plight of the Americans stranded in Afghanistan on Thursday after the bombings at the Kabul airport, when Kirby issued a statement saying: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones and teammates of all those killed and injured.”
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gravenimage says
Never Forget: Biden Prioritized Getting Afghans Out of the Country
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Yes–and Biden is now confirming he will leave Americans behind:
“Biden: ISIS-K Terror Threat So Great We Have To Leave Americans In Their Hands”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/biden-isis-k-terror-threat-so-great-we-have-to-leave-americans-in-their-hands
Utterly despicable.
Wellington says
+!
maria says
Well Biden is a traitor and he should be cort martialed immediately, And if Harris will go on taking the afghan animals to the US, then the same goes for her and the same for Pelosi
But Biden must be impeached immediately
Dum Spiro says
30K? That number can be close to 50K or more:
US Taps Three More Military Bases to House Afghan Refugees, Expands Upper Limit to 50,000
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us-taps-three-more-military-bases-to-house-afghan-refugees-expands-upper-limit-to-50000_3968124.html
People need to wake up to what’s being implemented…
— Spero
Infidel says
Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. Must Accept 200,000 Afghan Refugees to Make Amends for Immoral War
Why stop at 200,000, Senora? Why not shift Afghanistan’s entire 33 million population – including Taliban, ISIS-K and al Qaeda – here, and ship all Republicans, particularly those who refuse to vaccinate AND wear masks 24/7 to Afghanistan? Then there will be no muslims left in Afghanistan, thereby solving their problem. And you will also solve your problem of excessive ‘whiteness’ in America
gravenimage says
Of course the “Squad” wants more unvetted Muslims brought here.
Eleanor says
Yes, and why? of course they will all be Democrat voters. Just as the migrants coming in from Mexico and Central America will be. And the Cubans? Not on your nelly — Biden won’t let them into America, as he knows they will all vote Republican. Makes me sick.
Reziac says
Same with white South Africans, who are in danger of an oncoming genocide. Russia is taking a few; the U.S. has denied SA applications.
“We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people…at least for now.”
— Julius Malema
Infidel says
Yeah, Boers have mainly found new homes in Australia, New Zealand and Russia. The ones in Russia – maybe they could settle in the Siberian Steppes and develop some of that land
Clifford Fodor says
Joe Biden has at least three more years to go in the White House. Isn’t there someway we can end all this stupidity and surrendering sooner before we are destroyed?
Reziac says
Kneepads Harris is not the Vice President. She’s the insurance against anyone removing China Joe, because while Joe is merely senile and incompetent, Kamala is incompetent and =malicious=. And everyone knows it.
Dum Spiro says
Insisting on full forensic audits of the 2020 election in all states would be a good start.
People would want to do at least that…
— Spero
OLD GUY says
Well of course the American politicians and agency leaders who allowed the Afghan political leaders to blow through hundreds of millions of American tax dollars on their lavish life style, homes and condos in Dubai, would be more interested in taking care of their crooked friends.
The foreign aid racket in Washington in outrageous. We the American tax payer have given a blank check, for these crooks. There appears to be no oversight over what these foreign governments do with the CASH we give them.
Maybe we need a tax payer revolt, everybody stop paying taxes would put a crimp in their style and shortage in their off shore bank accounts.
Don’t forget it is OUR money they are blowing thru not theirs.
somehistory says
The world has entered its “last days.” Mankind is on the brink of Armageddon.
A war, for sure, but one where the Right Side is the only Winner and only good will come of it all. No innocent person will die or be living in terror.
Just wondering how much worse things will be before this war begins. Christ knows. God knows. Humans will soon know.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden, that awful dangerous , disastrous and destructive pseudo US President is totally despicable.
Peace says
The Democrats need a massive amount of immigrants to support all the false voters they created when they cheated the last election, these Afagans are perfect, none of them will vote for Trump, all of them can be moved to any state in the country, they’ll all be on welfare and hanging around in camps until they are required to be settled in states that don’t have enough real people to match amount of votes that was cast …