Taliban Issues Humiliating Demand to Biden, With Deadline Sept. 11

[G.Elias]

Bush,Blair,Obhama,Trump,Biden.

All guilty in creating this mess.
All the arms companies that made colossal amounts of money-guilty.
All the politicians that voted for war - guilty.

Nobody wins war.

[Charon]

When the lottery was on during Vietnam days, I was a conscientious objector. Me father and I were gonna go to Canada. He had served in WW2. But there were so many horrors and people came home ill and they still don't have simple cures for all our men went thru. And when did we stop paying wounded soldiers any disability money. But, I would rather get thru life without killing another.

No winners here. But America lost so much trust.


POLITICS
Biden says Afghanistan war ‘should have ended long ago’ as he defends withdrawal
President Biden walks away from a lectern down an ornate hall
President Biden walks away after speaking about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House on Tuesday.(Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
BY CHRIS MEGERIANSTAFF WRITER
AUG. 31, 2021 3:39 PM PT




WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, describing the frantic evacuation as an “extraordinary success” even though dozens of Americans and thousands of Afghan allies were left behind.
Biden’s remarks were passionate and defiant, reflecting his determination that ending America’s longest war was the right choice despite a wave of criticism that the departure was mishandled.

“With all of my heart, I believe this is the right decision, a wise decision, the best decision for America,” he said from the White House.

The war, he asserted, “should have ended long ago.”


1st. Lt. Zachary Peterson of Sharpsburg, Ga., and other U.S. soldierstake part in an operation in support of Afghan soldiers in Wardak province, Afghanistan.
POLITICS

A timeline: America’s war in Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001

Aug. 31, 2021

Although Biden originally promised the withdrawal would be “orderly and safe,” he said Tuesday that some level of chaos was unavoidable.

“The bottom line is there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges and threats we faced,” he said. “None.”

The last U.S. soldiers left after nightfall the previous evening, ending two decades of war that began as retaliation for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda, the terrorist group based in Afghanistan.

The Taliban, the fundamentalist group that U.S. forces drove from power only to see it regain control of the country in recent weeks, celebrated the American withdrawal by firing weapons in the air and scavenging for abandoned equipment at Kabul’s airport.

The departure of U.S. troops marked the final stage of an evacuation that flew more than 120,000 people, mostly Afghan allies, out of the country.

Biden said his administration worked tirelessly to help Americans leave Afghanistan, adding that diplomatic efforts would continue now that military operations have ended.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Monday that U.S. diplomats would pressure the Taliban to ensure safe passage.

“Our commitment to them and to all Americans in Afghanistan and everywhere in the world continues,” he said.

Blinken said many of the remaining Americans were dual citizens with “deep roots and extended families” in Afghanistan, and they’re facing a “painful choice” about whether to leave.

Thousands of diplomats, foreign service officers and civil servants here and overseas have been dedicated to the evacuation effort in recent weeks, according to State Department officials.

Hunched over rows of computers in hidden rooms at department headquarters, a core staff has placed tens of thousands of phone calls and sent tens of thousands of emails to contact U.S. citizens and Afghan allies.

At one point, they were coordinating 90 charter flights per day out of Kabul. Most went to places like Qatar — known as “lily pads” in the parlance of the evacuation effort — before continuing to final destinations like U.S. military bases.

The flights are paused now, and it’s unclear when Kabul’s airport will be operational again now that it’s under Taliban control.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- AUGUST 30, 2021: A military transport plane flies over as Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)
WORLD & NATION

Photos: America’s longest war ends as last U.S. troops leave Afghanistan

Aug. 30, 2021

Former President Trump made the original decision to pull out of Afghanistan, reaching a deal with the Taliban for U.S. forces to leave May 1.

After Biden took office, he pushed back the deadline to the end of the summer, but he remained committed to ending America’s longest war. He was the fourth president to oversee the conflict, and he said he refused to pass the burden to a fifth.

“I made a commitment to the American people that I would end this war. Today, I’ve honored that commitment,” he said. “It was time to be honest with the American people again. We no longer had a clear purpose in an open-ended mission in Afghanistan.”

The withdrawal came at a heavy cost. Thirteen U.S. service members safeguarding the evacuation died in a terrorist attack by a local affiliate of Islamic State. A U.S. drone strike intended to prevent another bombing may have killed several children.

The president’s political standing has also been bruised by bipartisan concerns that the withdrawal was mismanaged. A new Pew Research Center survey said 54% of Americans believe it was the right decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, but 42% said the Biden administration has handled it poorly. Only 27% said the administration has done a good or excellent job.

Biden won office by promising competence and empathy in the White House, but his handling of the withdrawal has more often been characterized by stubbornness. Some military families who lost relatives in the operation have been raw with anger at the president, even after meeting with him at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday.

Taliban fighters secured Kabul's airport on Tuesday after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Administration officials also failed to anticipate how swiftly the Taliban would retake power once it became clear that the U.S. military was leaving. As the deadline for withdrawal approached, the Taliban advanced swiftly, sweeping into Kabul two weeks ago.

Biden conceded Tuesday that assumptions about how long the Afghan security forces would hold off the Taliban “turned out not to be accurate.” He blamed “corruption and malfeasance” in the Afghan government that U.S. forces had spent years propping up.

The Taliban’s arrival in the country’s capital forced the U.S. to organize a massive airlift to evacuate American civilians and Afghan allies.

Now that the withdrawal is over, Afghanistan has been left in the hands of the same fundamentalist group that sheltered Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks and spent years methodically fighting to reassert control over the country.

It remains to be seen how long the political fallout lasts. The American attitude toward Afghanistan had long been dominated by apathy, which allowed the war to drag on with no end in sight. But the evacuation has refocused voters’ attention on Afghanistan, at least for the time being.

Biden said “the world is changing,” and it was important to shift toward addressing other foreign policy concerns.

“There’s nothing China and Russia would rather have, would want more, in this competition, than the United States to be bogged down another decade in Afghanistan,” he said.

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I thought we showed compassion and integrity and intestinal fortitude when dealing with people whom have helped us for many years.

Nah. Some private former military went over. Helped.

Nancy P is dancing in the streets cuz she passed some piss ant useless budget at this moment. The Pres is looking at his watch when the deceased heroes pass him by. A teleprompter won't give that horrible excuse for a human being a heart and soul. Screw your deceased son. Now is the time to grieve with the people whom lost their children by how u handled this. I don't even believe u lost a son to what u claim. You only speak lies.

Disgusting chapter in America. We did not even respond to our allies about what we were doing. We gave a kill list to our enemies cuz they done promised to be good. How many did the taliban and friends murder that nite, Joe? You have no heart. No brain. You are cowardly. And You are a friggin liar. How dare you were promoted as a viable candidate for the United States. Just look at all you have fecked up in seven months.

[Charon]

i cannot stand to see his putrid face. i prefer to listen to wild animal noises to entertain Harry the Cat.

I follow a former secret ops man whom thereafter became a minister to the military. He financed many people and at least one plane and none of them have gotten out.

No one can just be this stupid or this failed by their mind and body that they would think being Joe Biden is A OK. Frig the pedophile aspects. He is a disgusting liar. It is impossible for him to speak truth.

Our military and our Country is very in love with freedom, the US, good people, helping good people. You are hopefully perpetually screwed for how you handled all this. You cannot lie it away Old Man.

[Charon]

[Charon]

oh just silly joe talking outta his arse. again.

[Charon]

Fauci was inappropriately angry with Rand Paul. And way back in December 2019, when many of us in this area felt we were exposed to a radically severe upper respiratory type attack, people were accusing fauci of this BS and he was doing his favorite thing: lying.

I did research on fauci. My medical doctor sister told me that attorneys are far more cruel and vindictive to other attorneys. But we agreed that Doctors bring in researchers and then steal their work, often,Which Fauci seems to have done. I researched him, and his former researcher he stole her work on two separate times.

Ooh the little man gets so angry. Who in God's name picks brad pitt to play him on SNL? How swell does he think he is?

U won't even follow the rules when u r being questioned, u faker foo foo, fauxci.

Oh, my, he resents the lie against him. WE RESENT ALL THE LIES THAT HAVE TAKEN LIVES AWAY FROM US. HE WAS PART AND PARCEL OF THIS ATTACK ON AMERICA. SOMEDAY, HE WILL BE FORCED TO ADMIT SAME.