Kabul madhouse

[MrPrena]

Every politician in Afghanistan had two choices: Either join the Taliban in advance and help with the takeover from the "inside", or get the hell out of dodge. Not defending the guy, but it's the ones that didn't run that are more treasonous.

got it.
just read some Karzai article about him talking to Taliban today.

[hollohas]

The good news is it's pretty cheep to get a flight out. The US is only charging citizens $2,000 or more each.

https://af.usembassy.gov/security-al...20per%20person

U.S. lawful permanent residents may submit a repatriation assistance request, and their request will be considered depending on availability.

Flight Costs: Repatriation flights are not free, and passengers will be required to sign a promissory loan agreement and may not be eligible to renew their U.S. passports until the loan is repaid. The cost may be $2,000USD or more per person.

[Scanker19]

Sounds cheaper to just “not be a citizen..”

[thebolt]

Clearly sending out smoke to hide the issue since very few will make it to the airport.

[Martinjmpr]

As a veteran of both campaigns (although all my OIF time was spent in Kuwait) this sums up my feelings nicely:

[hollohas]

You know it's too bad we abandoned Bagram. That sure would have been useful to get Americans to safety...

Biden and his admin are truly retarded.

What a cluster f....

[Scanker19]

As a veteran of both campaigns (although all my OIF time was spent in Kuwait) this sums up my feelings nicely:

That’s a good one. I can imagine what the Afghan vets are feeling. Seeing what happened in Iraq in Sinjar and the Yzidi people succumb to those pieces of human waste, isis was heart breaking. The VA has been hot to cover their asses with the emails. I don’t remember getting those emails for Iraq.

[Gman]

Should have pulled our people out before the military. Not surprised that Biden got it backward.

Modern politicians would have reacted like this to Ashraf Ghani making it out with millions...

[Doc45]

My older son is currently deployed not too far away from this shitshow. Our chats talk about everything but the situation right now. I'll be curious to hear what he has to say when he gets home in a few months. I agree with the posts here about getting our people out before pulling the troops-pretty obvious to everyone but the morons in DC.

[hollohas]

The plan was to pull citizens out before the rest of the troops. But that was Trump's plan so it was obviously bad. They promptly threw that in the garbage.

I'm kinda starting to wonder if they screwed this up so bad on purpose so they could blame it all on Trump to really show the world how bad he is. But they even screwed that up. The media didn't even fall for it.