My latest in PJ Media:
Without bothering to give its hapless readers any reminders about how and why Americans got stuck in Afghanistan in the first place, NBC News reported Monday that “the Pentagon is stepping up efforts to get family members of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, creating a database of the dozens who are trapped there.”
That’s terrific, but why now? Why the long delay in moving on this? And why was priority placed on bringing unvetted and unvettable Afghans into the United States rather than getting the Americans out? As usual with Biden’s handlers, no useful answers are forthcoming.
NBC noted that on Thursday, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl “issued a memo asking any U.S. military personnel and DOD civilians with immediate family members who need help leaving Afghanistan to email his office.” Wonderful, but why did it take him two months since the American military withdrawal to do this?
The NBC report also states that “there are still several dozen immediate family members of U.S. service members in Afghanistan, according to defense officials. Those include children, sisters and brothers, and parents. There are well over 100 extended family members still in Afghanistan, but it’s not clear how many of them want to leave the country, the officials said.” Kahl’s new memo demonstrates, according to the unnamed defense official that NBC quotes, “a more deliberate effort at the DOD level” to get these people out. “There is an increased desire to make sure that as we make this push that we have every situation accounted for.”
However, even as this new effort is being made, “the Pentagon does not have a good accounting of how many DOD civilians still have immediate family members in Afghanistan, the officials said.”
That’s inexcusable, as these people are severely threatened. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: “Over the past month, I have been contacted by hundreds of Texans who are desperately trying to get friends and family members safe out of the country. That includes the family members of several Texans who currently serve in the military. The federal government has turned their backs on them. If we abandon the family members of our service men and women in Afghanistan, they will certainly be slaughtered by the Taliban.”
That’s certainly true, but Biden’s handlers had other priorities. 70,000 Afghan evacuees are already in the U.S., and the total number is expected to exceed 124,000 before long. The foolishness of this, and the howling injustice of prioritizing getting these people out before rescuing all the Americans in the country, is already becoming apparent: one of Biden’s handlers, unnamed in a late October Wall Street Journal report, has admitted that ten of these evacuees have already been detained as risks to national security.
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gravenimage says
Finally: Pentagon Ratcheting Up Efforts to Get Americans Out of Afghanistan
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Is the Taliban going to let them go?
Infidel says
I think that once they get such a list, they’ll give it to the Taliban so that the Taliban can kill them and then report them as dead
gravenimage says
I would not be surprised, Infidel–Biden has done this before.
Westman says
After the Biden admin abysmal treatment of US citizens and Military relatives, now it changes course (after Gov race in VA).
Well, as citizens, we always did honestly appreciate our Veterans and serving military.
Thank you!! And accept our heartfelt good wishes this Vetersn’s Day.
Wellington says
Way too little, way too late. Yes, some good might still come from this but it does not exculpate doofuses like Biden and Milley.
Fitna says
Clearly the Democrats have a burning love for Afghanistan and its people including the Taliban, as they’re trying to bring them all into the US, while they couldn’t give a second thought to their fellow Americans trapped there.
So instead of trying to turn the US into Afghanistan, let’s deport all Afghanis along with the Democrat party so they can all live happily ever after and put Trump back in power where he belongs.
Could anyone imagine if Muslims were trapped in a ‘hostile’ Christian nation like Poland (hypothetically that kills Muslims) and rather than save their fellow Muslims, they import over 120k Christians? What the F is wrong with Leftists?
Fitna says
I think there’s a very high chance, many of the Liberal elites have been bought off by Arab money to import thousands and millions of Muslims into the West, because they know they can only beat us by demographics, not in actual warfare. So this is treason as well as taking bribes.
Ade Fegan says
an election coming up is there ?
Alfredo says
It only goes to show where Biden’s priorities are. His political program should be called Destroy America.
As for that doofus, Mark Milley as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, instead of forcing the USAF to take CRT training, he should have done the Evac Op of non-essential personnel long before, not after quitting. Idiot!
It is astonishing the stupidy of those who go woke. That’s why there is that saying Go Woke Go Broke.
Let’s Brake Them in 2024!
The American people must teach those woke traitors a lesson they will never forget, come election time they must fire them unceremoniously.
All those Left Wing idiots like the Rinos and members of the despicable Twat Squad, are suffering from the Woke Idiocy Syndrome.
Walter Sieruk says
Finally indeed, for the reader might well notice that it’s the conscientious military men of the Pentagon who are putting forth an effort to rescue the American who are still trapped in Afghanistan.
Not with any assistance or help by Joe Biden who is only interested in supporting the Taliban by giving them “aid” which will only further uphold the Taliban’s brutal , cruel vicious and oppressive Islamic tyranny.
By abandoning all those so many Americans in Afghanistan and therefore leaving them in the malicious vicious vengeful heinous grip of Taliban, 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.”
Walter Sieruk says
President pretender Joe Biden doesn’t actually care at all about those Americans who are still in Afghanistan and are in awful danger for the lives by the Taliban because Biden gave Afghanistan to them.
What Biden doe’s really care about is having his ice cream.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Walter.
And Sleepy Joe always gets two scoops…