And the results are interesting.
While the media has mostly gone back to carrying water for their administration and ignoring Afghanistan, there are some occasional interesting stories still getting past the echo chamber in which journalists actually ask basic questions and try to get them answered.
This one comes from USA Today.
When the last American troops left Afghanistan Aug. 31, State Department officials said that between 100 and 200 Americans remained in the country and vowed to get them out.
Since then, the U.S. government has helped at least 234 Americans leave Afghanistan, according to the State Department’s latest tally. Separately, U.S. veterans and other private groups have evacuated at least 32 U.S. citizens – and probably many more.
Yet the State Department’s chief spokesman, Ned Price, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 Americans are still in the country seeking to leave – the same range he cited nearly two months ago.
How can there be perpetually 100 to 200 Americans in Afghanistan?
Here’s where the weasel phrase that every administration official and spokesman threw in comes into play, “those Americans who want to leave”.
Price has repeatedly said the population of U.S. citizens seeking to leave is “dynamic” –constantly in flux as individuals and families make difficult decisions about whether to stay or go. And as more Americans leave, he said, others see that it’s safe to come forward and seek evacuation assistance.
So just reclassify Americans trapped behind enemy lines from not wanting to leave to wanting to leave while always maintaining the same artificial 100 to 200 number of those who want to leave.
Infidel says
I fully believe that there are Americans in Afghanistan who want to remain there even while Afghans have flooded the planes and fled to wherever it took them.
Just for the record, I also believe that we men can get pregnant -> ?
gravenimage says
Yes, Infidel–this claim that Americans would want to stay is just absurd.
And what about the Americans held hostage by the Taliban there? This story came out some weeks ago, and I have never seen a proper follow up. Are they still being held? Were they released? If so, by what US concessions?
gravenimage says
How the Biden Administration Fakes the ‘Only 100 Americans Left in Afghanistan’
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That this number has remained the same for weeks now is extremely suspect. Kudos to USA Today–not a source I would expect!–for calling the administration out.
Walter Sieruj says
That treacherous and traitorous villain Joe Biden, has the gall to lie about the number of America n that he left stranded in Afghanistan. There actually should be no Americans, at all, abandoned in the “country.”
Biden is despicable and wicked by every meaning of those two words
Walter Sieruk says
By abandoning those so many Americans in Afghanistan, even lying about it, and therefore leaving them in the malicious vicious vengeful heinous grip of Taliban, Joe Biden had betrayed them. So treacherous villain, Biden is a real traitor in every of the word.
To make matter even worse that liar and chief , Biden , has the US State Department lie to the American public with the bogus claim that “All Americans are now out of Afghanistan.
That bogus US “President” Biden is a traitor to all the Americans he left stranded in Afghanistan Biden is also a traitor to other Americans and to America herself.
Biden is also a traitor to all the American soldiers who had literally shed their blood, died and had been maimed for life in Afghanistan.
Likewise Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers who had shed their blood, were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban. For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden is a traitor to the American taxpayer who paid nearly two trillion to end jihadist terrorist training camps in Afghanistan forever in Afghanistan. For since Biden “handed’” that country to the Taliban ,they will let the jihadists of al Qaeda and ISIS set up jihad training centers in that land.
Joe Biden should be arrested for treason…Biden is not a real American President, he’s pseudo “president,” an impostor “president.”
James Lincoln says
Walter,
You are correct regarding Joe Biden.
As far as he’s concerned, everything is okay as long as he gets an ice cream cone with two scoops.
And his 10% cut…
Walter Sieruk says
That wicked fiend Joe Biden, no doubt, doesn’t even really care about the US soldiers who died because of him. All he’s really interested in is going on vacation and having his ice cream as well as coming on to youngsters for sex.
Lisa Tea says
The first instant I heard White House spokesperson, Jen Psaki, say that they were going to get out all “Americans who want to leave” I knew immediately that this would be their excuse for leaving Americans behind. Plus, some of these new U.S. citizens or green card holders who worked as translators for us have children and spouses that the U.S. hadn’t yet provided a VISA. What kind of man would leave his wife and children in a hostile country alone? The State Department had a year’s warning to provide these documents, worse than that they had up to 20 years to be working on this system of rewarding translators and their families.
During the two weeks between Kabul falling and the August 31st deadline, I was watching Fox News every morning (afternoon and evening, too) for updates on how many were being rescued. When I had to go back to my bedroom to dress for work in the morning I could barely tear myself away from the TV. Then it occurred to me that I could listen to Glenn Beck’s radio show instead.
That first morning I listened I learned that his charity, The Nazarene Fund, was already rescuing Afghani Christians,trapped Americans and anyone else they could from Afghanistan. Glenn started this charity back in 2015 when Obama was only allowing Muslim Syrian refugees escaping from ISIS into our country and leaving the Syrian Christians behind.
That first morning I tuned in I learned Glenn had originally asked his CFO how much money he’d need to raise in order to rescue 3,000- 5,000 people from Afghanistan. His CFO said I’ll get back to you.’ He called back several hours later and said $20 million dollars. Glenn Beck announced it to his audience and within 2 days his audience had helped raise the 20 mil.
By the next week he’d raised 35 million. The Nazarene Fund had already rescued 5100, then he announced 8,000 were rescued, then the U.S. State Dept. stopped cooperating. They called back flights that were in mid-air, whose manifests had been twice verified by U.S. government agencies before take off. They also informed Beck that the countries that had agreed to take these refugees had been informed that the U.S. government couldn’t guarantee there were no terrorists aboard, so these countries started backing out.
After the withdrawal of American troops, they were told by the State Dept. that the people they were trying to rescue would need to fill out another form before they could leave. When asked where to get the form, they were told “at the embassy.” When it was pointed out that there was no more embassy, the State Department rep. laughed and said, “I guess you’ll just have to figure it out.”
The Nazarene Fund had four planes at the airport in Mazur-A-Sharif with passengers aboard ready to depart when the State Department demanded more I.D. checks. They dilly-dallied so long the Taliban found out about the planes and prevented them from taking off. The passengers’ papers were confiscated and no one knows where these people are now. Glenn Beck said he knew the government was lying about the “only 100 Americans left behind” because he had more than 100 Americans on those four planes.
The Nazarene Fund provided the planes that helped rescue and relocate the Afghani FIFA girl’s soccer team and their families to Portugal. Glenn Beck was told by his people to stop announcing numbers rescued because it was only antagonizing the State Department, but I did hear him on a YouTube video from another Christian channel where he was the guest and the number was up to 12,000. That was several weeks ago.
The Nazarene Fund continues to rescue people but they are having to do it in smaller batches.They have a whole group of other charities and American military veterans who are helping on the ground in Afghanistan and remotely from the U.S. and other countries in the Middle East. One day Beck interviewed the man who is coordinating the rescues for The Nazarene Fund. His name is Rudy, his family were Christian refugees from Lebanon many years ago. He is doing all this work as a volunteer and refuses to take a salary. He is working 20 hours a day and just recently got married. His bride said “Go, do what you have to do. We can have a honeymoon later.”
I hope that you feel both the outrage at the Biden administration and State Department betrayal that I feel, but also the great relief and hope that each of these rescues can provide. The Nazarene Fund doesn’t just rescue, but also resettles these Christian refugees, teaching them the language of their new home, finding them jobs and helping them understand the culture of their new sponsoring country.
If you felt inspired to contribute, I’m sure your donation will be well spent. Glenn Beck also emphasizes that our prayers are very important to this work.
peter says
If you can trust Biden Administration on Taliban and Afghanistan ,you can almost trust anything in the world !God help us ! I cannot wait to see the demise of Biden Government!