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    Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:04 pm

    Armed Taliban fighters surround Kabul airport and take control of ALL access points leaving US and UK troops to negotiate who gets in - as desperate ex-Marine commando blasts British Army after his wife go missing in the scrum
    Hundreds of Afghanis fleeing the Taliban are forced to line up behind barbed wire at Kabul Airport today

    They waited to board flights out of the country under the guns of Afghan guards and US Apache helicopters

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to convene a meeting of G7 world leaders at the 'earliest opportunity'

    12 military flights take off from Kabul today, including three UK planes as MoD tries to get out 7,000 people

    President Joe Biden has been slammed for the chaotic retreat which his critics said had 'humiliated' the US

    WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9900537/Taliban-Afghanistan-Evacuation-flights-Kabul-resume.html



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    'F*** that. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam': What Biden told Obama's special representative for Afghanistan he thought of America's obligations to the Afghan people

    A diary entry from Richard Holbrooke suggests that Biden was intent on pulling out of Afghanistan more than a decade ago when he was VP
    Biden compared pulling out of Afghanistan with the US exit of Vietnam in 1973
    The then-vice president reportedly said: 'F*** that, we don't have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it'
    Biden on Monday defended his decision to bring home U.S. troops
    The rapid US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has left the gate open for the Taliban to surge to power may come as a surprise to some, but President Joe Biden has been in favor of pulling out for years.

    In 2010, Biden reportedly told Richard Holbrooke, then Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, that the US had to leave Afghanistan regardless of the cost for the Afghan people.

    According to Holbrooke, when Biden was asked about America's obligation to maintain their presence in Afghanistan to protect vulnerable civilians, he scornfully replied by referencing the US exit from southeast Asia in 1973.

    'F*** that, we don't have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.'

    Biden has defended his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, despite harsh criticism over the botched execution and claims that he ignored intelligence community warnings that Kabul could quickly fall to the Taliban.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9901577/F-k-Biden-told-Obamas-special-representative-Afghanistan-obligations.html

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    Post  Kiko Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:07 pm

    Fight Them on the Beaches!, by Finian Cunningham for Sputniknews, 17.8.2021.

    Dominic Raab, the British foreign secretary, gives new and shameful meaning to Winston Churchill’s rousing speech about fighting an enemy on the beaches.

    While the Taliban were sweeping to victory in Afghanistan at the weekend, Raab was reportedly lounging on a sun-splashed beach on the Greek island of Crete.

    The arrogant Raab – who is prone to lecture Russia and China over alleged misconduct – tried to make out he was being fully briefed by intelligence agencies on the unfolding chaos in Afghanistan, no doubt while he was topping up his piña coladas and sunscreen.

    His boss, prime minister Boris Johnson, has also come under fire for being on holiday at a time when the British-backed regime in Afghanistan imploded.

    Raab claims he, like many other world leaders, was caught by surprise with the rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban insurgents. Since the United States, Britain and other NATO members announced their military withdrawal from the Central Asian country several months ago, the Taliban have made dramatic gains culminating in the collapse of the Western-backed regime in Kabul on Sunday.

    After 20 years of waging war in Afghanistan and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, the Americans and British are fleeing the country like rats of a sinking ship – and with the Taliban back in power.

    This is an ignominious debacle of epic proportions. The virtuous and nauseating pretensions of the United States and Britain are laid bare for the criminal lies that they are. President Joe Biden and his British lackeys are trying to spin the fiasco as a failure by the Afghan security forces.

    But even the dutiful US and British news media cannot conceal the hideous reality. After trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money and public services slashed to pay for that, the reality is the Western military-industrial complexes made a rip-off fortune from weapons that are now in the hands of the supposed sworn enemy of the Taliban.

    As CNN candidly editorialised: "The imagery from Afghanistan is deeply damaging to Biden politically and paints a disastrous picture of a nation that has long seen itself as a global leader and guardian of democracy, human rights and humanitarianism".

    Indeed the imagery is devastating for the hypocritical posturing by the US and Britain. Henceforth, those two culprit nations should never be able to lecture other nations about "rules-based order", international law and human rights.

    Desperate scenes of Afghans clinging on to US military cargo planes as they take off from Kabul airport – and subsequently falling to their deaths – speaks of the horrific, callous debacle for American imperialism. After two decades of destroying a country along with Britain and other NATO powers, in the end, it’s a heartless, cowardly, hurried retreat in which Afghans are abandoned to a miserable fate.

    Comparisons are being made with the Fall of Saigon when the United States fled in a hurry from South Vietnam in 1975 at the end of a war in which millions of Vietnamese were killed by American carpet bombing and scorched-earth raids. Incredibly, Biden and his aides are in abject denial, saying there is no such comparison with Afghanistan.

    Not only Vietnam but comparisons can also be made with many other nations that the US and its allies have destroyed over the decades with their military machinations only to be finally forced to quit in defeat. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and others.

    Afghanistan is perhaps the clearest, most damning demonstration of the criminal conduct of US imperialism along with its lapdogs in NATO. The United States is a warmongering tyranny and scourge on the planet.

    And complicit in the war crimes is the corporate news media. For 20 years, the Western mainstream media have whitewashed and laundered the ludicrous, cynical lies of the US government and accomplices about what they were doing in Afghanistan. Fighting terrorism? Nation-building? Supporting democracy? Sickening sycophancy is the only fit description for such media.

    How absurd and grotesque that Western media spun such narratives in the face of all the evidence of criminal military occupation. The proof of that is the fiasco of American, British and NATO now scurrying away from their 20-year disaster.

    And nothing is more fitting than Biden trying to blame Afghans for the mess and British politicians lounging on Greek island beaches.

    https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202108171083639136-fight-them-on-the-beaches/

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    Post  PapaDragon Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:14 pm


    Gotta say that I do greatly respect that  C-17 crew that hauled those 600+ people

    They just said: ''F*ck it, this is happening'' and hit the throttle  thumbsup  



    ALAMO wrote:...It is for real dude, RT1 just emitted films those Ukrainians were taking on the spot.

    404 should send them some of those awesome Antonovs that are totally still in production



    Also, fresh picture of Sheik Washington crossing the Delaware:
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    Post  VARGR198 Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:27 pm

    #Afghanistan Security Forces at Bazarak town of #Panjshir Province, #Afganisthan
    Some of the Army remnant in Panjshir (the only part of the country not under Taliban control)

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    Post  Airbornewolf Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:33 pm

    PapaDragon wrote:
    Gotta say that I do greatly respect that  C-17 crew that hauled those 600+ people

    They just said: ''F*ck it, this is happening'' and hit the throttle  thumbsup  


    That i agree Wink.

    we might be 46 years since Saigon, but some things never change.

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    Post  George1 Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:46 pm

    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1427650225729155086

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    Post  Finty Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:25 pm

    PapaDragon wrote:
    Gotta say that I do greatly respect that  C-17 crew that hauled those 600+ people

    They just said: ''F*ck it, this is happening'' and hit the throttle  thumbsup  



    Aye and spare a thought for the crew having to deal with the thoughts of those fallers-off.

    On another note...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58232525

    How the Taliban stormed across Afghanistan in ten days

    he Taliban swept across Afghanistan in just 10 days, taking control of towns and cities across the country.

    Taliban fighters took their first provincial capital on 6 August - and by 15 August, they were at the gates of Kabul.

    Their lightning advance prompted tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, many arriving in the Afghan capital, others heading for neighbouring countries.

    And there was chaos in Kabul, as President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and thousands of his countrymen and women tried to do likewise.

    US troops depart
    Emboldened by the withdrawal of US and other international forces, in June, the Taliban already controlled large parts of the country.

    But after 6 August, their advance accelerated with a new momentum.

    Control maps of Afghanistan 6 Aug and 15 Aug
    Provincial capitals toppled in quick succession.

    By 8 August, the Taliban had taken control in Kunduz.

    Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar followed within a few days.

    Mapping the Taliban advance
    Who are the Taliban?
    Will the Taliban take Afghanistan back to the past?
    Afghan forces collapse
    Despite 20 years of outside support, billions of dollars of funding, an extensive programme of training and US air support, the Afghan security forces largely collapsed.

    In some areas, they did stand and fight.

    In Lashkar Gah, Afghan troops were pinned back in key positions, as the Taliban attacked repeatedly.

    Hundreds of commandos were sent in to restore order - but when the Taliban detonated a massive car bomb outside the police headquarters, on 11 August, the battle was largely over.

    Maps of where the security forces fought and where they fled. Updated 17 Aug.
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    In many areas, Afghan units that found themselves running out of ammunition and other supplies simply fled.

    Troops armed and trained by the US to safeguard ordinary Afghans left them to largely fend for themselves.

    And in some places, the authorities agreed to allow the Taliban to take over, to avoid further bloodshed.

    In Ghazni, reports suggest the police chief and governor were both allowed to leave the city in return for agreeing to a Taliban takeover.

    On 14 August, Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban, with little resistance from Afghan troops, some of whom left the city and headed for the border with Uzbekistan at Haraitan.

    'Humanitarian catastrophe'
    By the 15 August, 17,600 people fleeing the Taliban had arrived in Kabul, with thousands more arriving all the time, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

    Woman who fled fighting in Kunduz after a rocket hit her house.
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    With very little support from the Afghan authorities, many were sleeping rough in parks and other public areas.

    Some said they had come from captured towns where the Taliban were killing male family members who had worked for the security forces, and reimposing restrictions on women.

    The World Food Programme said the conflict had "all the hallmarks of a humanitarian catastrophe".

    Chaos in Kabul
    As President Ghani fled the country, US embassy staff were helicoptered out of their heavily fortified compound.

    And thousands of people were heading to Kabul airport.


    media captionThousands of desperate Afghans descend on Kabul airport
    Taliban fighters initially paused outside the city, while emergency talks were held at the presidential palace.

    But they then moved in to take full control.

    Map of events in Kabul
    Uncertain future
    Exactly how the Taliban intend to rule remains unclear - and may vary across the country.

    Reports from inside Taliban-held territory so far give a mixed picture.

    In Balkh, 20km (12 miles) from Mazar-i-Sharif, BBC News found women and girls allowed in public areas unaccompanied - but there were reports of a woman being murdered because of the way she had dressed.

    In other places, including a rural northern district near the Tajik border, women have said they are now forced to cover themselves with a burka and cannot go out unaccompanied.

    There are also reports of young women being offered to Taliban fighters for forced marriage.

    Although, Taliban representatives in Qatar insist this is "a lie".

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    Post  flamming_python Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:49 pm

    ALAMO wrote:
    flamming_python wrote:Is this for real? lol!


    It is for real dude, RT1 just emitted films those Ukrainians were taking on the spot.

    It's times like these, when the mask slips and resources, time are suddenly finite - that show what each party is really worth

    US and coalition diplomats all evacuated cleanly
    Afghan higher-ups and leaders evacuated themselves even before that
    Soldiers surrounded on all sides by their enemies but secure
    The junior partners' soldiers just forgotten about altogether
    And everyone else just ditched
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    Post  PapaDragon Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:54 pm

    Finty wrote:.....
    Aye and spare a thought for the crew having to deal with the thoughts of those fallers-off....

    Yeah, that's gonna haunt them especially once they inevitably see the footage (it's unavoidable in this day and age)

    And they couldn't have done anything about it anyway, it's not like cargo planes have rear view mirrors


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    Post  PapaDragon Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:56 pm


    Afghanistan: In 2001, UK officials took a top-secret trip to Moscow for advice - the response was brutally prophetic

    https://news.sky.com/story/events-in-afghanistan-could-hardly-have-played-out-in-a-better-way-for-russia-12383629

    ...One person who was at the meeting recalled: "When the Russians stopped laughing they told us: 'You will make the same bad choice we did, you will go in, you will lose, many of you will die and then you'll be forced to retreat, which will be good for us. How can we help?'"...



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    Post  Airbornewolf Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:04 pm

    nothing really new, but a new angle from the chaos at Kabul at 16-08
    They really came on the base in the thousands.

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    Post  Airbornewolf Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:16 pm

    needs no comment:
    Some U.S soldier clearly has have had it with Biden.

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    Post  George1 Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:17 pm

    topic and title were changed

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    Post  AlfaT8 Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:18 pm

    One of the sad fact about Afghanistan is that you could exit Vietnam via either air or sea, in Afghanistan you only had air.  Neutral

    A pity that this shit went full Saigon, if the U.S simply kept their May withdrawal date they could have avoided this, granted Kabul could have still fallen, but at least they would have avoided this Saigon situation.

    On another note, there are actually people who think this is all part of America's big plan.
    I was surprised that someone like BlackPigeon would even consider such a notion.
    I know there are people who love their country's military, but to assume that this was some competently executed, grand move on the geopolitical chessboard is absolutely nonsensical.




    PS: thanks for getting the Bitchute links working Garry. cheers


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    Post  flamming_python Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:22 pm

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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:50 pm

    AlfaT8 wrote:One of the sad fact about Afghanistan is that you could exit Vietnam via either air or sea, in Afghanistan you only had air.  Neutral

    A pity that this shit went full Saigon, if the U.S simply kept their May withdrawal date they could have avoided this, granted Kabul could have still fallen, but at least they would have avoided this Saigon situation.

    On another note, there are actually people who think this is all part of America's big plan.
    I was surprised that someone like BlackPigeon would even consider such a notion.
    I know there are people who love their country's military, but to assume that this was some competently executed, grand move on the geopolitical chessboard is absolutely nonsensical.




    PS: thanks for getting the Bitchute links working Garry. cheers

    I thought of another saying today: Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.


    I'd say that's exactly what happened to the U.S., and Joe Biden, and his Administration.
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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:51 pm

    'If I hear once more that the airport is safe - it's not': Westerners trying to flee Kabul tell of being groped and crushed while trying to navigate impassable melee of locals at Taliban checkpoints outside only airstrip providing flights to safety

    Hundreds of Afghanis fleeing the Taliban are forced to line up behind barbed wire at Kabul Airport today

    They waited to board flights out of the country under the guns of Afghan guards and US Apache helicopters
    Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to convene a meeting of G7 world leaders at the 'earliest opportunity'
    12 military flights take off from Kabul today, including three UK planes as MoD tries to get out 7,000 people
    President Joe Biden has been slammed for the chaotic retreat which his critics said had 'humiliated' the US

    WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
    Western nationals trying to flee Kabul have described being crushed and groped during a stampede of Afghans held at Taliban checkpoints outside the airstrip providing evacuation flights as Afghanistan is taken over by the Islamist terror group.

    Armed militants have surrounded the capital's airport and seized control of all access points, meaning they they can decide who stays and who leaves the Middle Eastern state as the Taliban plunge Afghanistan back into what locals and many Western governments fear will be Islamic tyranny.

    Ex-Royal Marine commando Paul 'Pen' Farthing described how his wife and pregnant employee, from whom he has been separated, had been 'crushed, groped and pushed' by crowds outside the airport - and had been denied entry by British and US troops stationed there.

    In videos posted to Facebook, Farthing said they are now in a secure British location, but furiously urged Boris Johnson to 'get his s**t together' and slammed 'snake' Joe Biden's 'absolutely disgusting' withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan following the 20-year Western intervention.

    He also took fire at the British troops who allegedly prevented his wife from entering Kabul airport, adding: 'They should not be wearing the beret of Her Majesty's British forces if they're not prepared to open that gate for a pregnant woman.'
    One female student also described how she feared she would be crushed to death by panicking crowds at Kabul airport. Speaking to MailOnline, Aisha Ahmad - who studies in the capital - said: 'People had heard that the Americans were letting people onto the aircraft to get them out of the country.

    'I didn't believe it at first, but then I went to the airport and saw that people had been allowed onto the tarmac without any checks, so I thought maybe it was true.

    'There were thousands of people inside the airport. Then at one point we were all pushed back by the Taliban police to get us out of the airport and women and children were trampled under people's feet.

    'I couldn't breathe in the crush and I really thought I was going to die. My feet are all swollen and covered in bruises. We thought there was a flight going to Germany which we might get on, but in the end they only took German nationals on board.'

    She added: 'From what I can see in the media, the situation inside the perimeter has calmed down a bit, but that has just transferred the problem outside onto the streets. People are so desperate.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9900537/Taliban-Afghanistan-Evacuation-flights-Kabul-resume.html
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    Post  JohninMK Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:59 pm

    Might help knowing what the airport layout is. Not sure it helps much.

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    Post  Gomig-21 Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:01 am

    PapaDragon wrote:
    No wonder the Taliban were unstoppable, they had Jihad Jesus fighting for them Cool

    At least we know where all the hair products in Kabul went...

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    It's the new Taliban Banana generation. The trampoline discovery is pretty hilarious!

    https://twitter.com/MarkWL20/status/1427654645221056519

    https://twitter.com/GoldenSparrow63/status/1427637821192482839

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    Joy and despair in desperate battle to flee Kabul: First UK mercy mission lands at Brize Norton as Boris Johnson pledges to take in 25,000 in coming years - but thousands remain trapped in Afghan capital with Taliban firing on crowds

    A man carries a bloodied child, as a woman lays wounded on the street after Taliban fighters use guns, whips, sticks and sharp objects to control a crowd as thousands of Afghans wait outside Kabul Airport

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9902845/Joy-despair-Afghan-refugees-UK-mercy-mission-Brize-Norton-thousands-Kabul.html



    THE BRITISH CLOBBER JOE BIDEN.

    The speech that shamed America: Its contemptible dishonesty would have made Donald Trump blush. Now, this blistering analysis by ANDREW NEIL asks - how can Joe Biden ever recover?
    It was the most contemptible speech by a U.S. president in modern times — a speech that shames America and leaves its global reputation in the dirt.

    And given that, until last January, the White House was occupied for four years by a certain Donald J. Trump, there couldn’t be a more damning criticism of President Joe Biden.

    Much of his address to the U.S. on Monday was Orwellian. In his classic novel 1984, set in a totalitarian dystopia, George Orwell created a Ministry of Peace which waged war, a Ministry of Truth which peddled lies, a Ministry of Love which tortured dissidents and a Ministry of Plenty which oversaw starvation.

    Biden matched all of that and more with his own defiant doublethink, involving distortions, the rewriting of history, and nonsense and untruths that even Trump would struggle to rival.

    His abject surrender to the Taliban was dressed up as political reality and common sense. His scuttle from Kabul, still ongoing, was depicted as geopolitical wisdom and a refocusing of U.S. priorities.

    Any mistakes or problems were the fault of others, from Trump to the Afghan army.

    But make no mistake: the person overwhelmingly responsible for the appalling scenes currently unfolding on our TV screens is the man sitting in the Oval Office.



    Politicians should be careful not to smear those who serve in uniform when it’s their lives on the line. As U.S. forces have drawn down, the Afghan military has borne the brunt of the action, suffering 45,000 fatalities in recent years (66,000 since 2001).

    It was unbecoming of President Biden to demean a foreign army which has incurred such a death toll in defence of its country while carrying out U.S. policy. But in his speech there were no lengths he wasn’t prepared to go to wash his hands of any responsibility.

    It was particularly pathetic to blame Trump, implying he’d been trapped by his predecessor’s talks with the Taliban.


    Untruths

    True, Trump’s deal with the Taliban was a bad one — especially the bit that allowed the release of 5,000 terrorists and assorted bad guys. But other parts of the deal were conditional on Taliban good behaviour, and they’d already started breaking the conditions.

    The idea Biden’s hands were tied is nonsense. He’s broken with a myriad other Trump policies, so why not this one?

    Trump was rightly criticised for his ‘America First’ mantra, a simplistic proposition for a superpower with complex global interests and responsibilities. But Biden gave us an America First speech on Monday — with not a word of thanks for America’s allies, especially Britain, who’ve stood by America in Afghanistan for two decades, at the cost of much blood.

    There have been more than 450 British fatalities, and many more service men and women left with life-changing injuries. But should we really have been surprised?

    The allies, including Britain, had no say in the substance or timing of the U.S. withdrawal. Indeed, they weren’t even consulted. It was presented to them as a fait accompli. So much for Biden’s promise, contrasting himself with Trump, to treat allies with respect. We should remember this next time America needs our help in a foreign adventure.

    Welcome to the Biden Legacy, our new Orwellian nightmare.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9903067/The-speech-shamed-America-ANDREW-NEIL-asks-Joe-Biden-recover.html

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    Post  AlfaT8 Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:20 am

    Just memes.

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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:28 am

    Former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta told MSNBC Tuesday that there was “no question” the Taliban would once again “provide a safe haven” to Al Qaeda and other terror groups, despite reassurances to the contrary.

    “This is a national security threat,” he said. ‘And it’s not going to be easy to go into Afghanistan, controlled by the Taliban. When we were there, we had the cooperation of the Afghans, we worked with the military, there were a lot of partnerships involved. We had good intelligence on where the targets were.

    “We’ll have none of that with Taliban control,” Panetta added, “and how we are going to be able to protect our country in that situation is going to be a very difficult challenge.

    Panetta compared the Fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021 to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961, saying that "President Kennedy took responsibility for what took place. I strongly recommend to President Biden that he take responsibility ... admit the mistakes that were made."

    https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/islamic-terror-groups-celebrate-fall-of-afghanistan-on-social-media/

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    Post  PapaDragon Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:35 am

    Gomig-21 wrote:...
    It's the new Taliban Banana generation. The trampoline discovery is pretty hilarious!...

    Just wait until they discover PlayStation Cool



    Also, countries that contributed troops in Afghanistan

    What the fuckety fucking fu¢k is Mongolia doing there? lol1

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    Post  AlfaT8 Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:40 am

    PapaDragon wrote:
    Also, countries that contributed troops in Afghanistan

    What the fuckety fucking fu¢k is Mongolia doing there? lol1

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    Wait, what??
    The F happened here, did the U.S ask for Mongolian advisers or something????

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