{"id":116568,"date":"2021-08-19T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116568"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:47:21","slug":"nos-morituri-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116568","title":{"rendered":"Nos Morituri…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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How many US troops are there in Afghanistan now? And how many will be brought home in body bags, if at all?<\/p>\n

Depends on who you talk to. Per this article from NPR, 3,000 were sent in ahead to assist our people there to evacuate, and apparently another 3,000 may be sent there as well.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/17\/1028519940\/biden-kabul-national-security-adviser-sullivan-afghanistan-troops-taliban<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 President Biden gave the order last Thursday to send U.S. troops into Afghanistan as it became clear that the Taliban were overrunning Afghan government forces on their way to taking Kabul.<\/p>\n

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday that as administration officials watched the situation unfold, the decision was made to supplement the first contingent of some 3,000 troops with some 3,000 more. Sullivan’s briefing was the first from the White House since Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, fell to the Taliban on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Critics have charged the president was cloistered in Camp David as the situation in Afghanistan quickly deteriorated, but Sullivan said Biden “has been deeply engaged in this.” Biden returned briefly to the White House on Monday to address the nation about Afghanistan, and he plans to leave Camp David again for Washington on Tuesday evening. \u2013 article<\/p>\n

Excuse me, but \u201cdeeply engaged\u201d? Does that mean he was awake when spoken to? He\u2019s borderline senile, as are a few pathetic idjits who sometimes post crap here on TAH, so how was Biteme \u201cdeeply engaged\u201d if he thinks the covid \u201ccrisis\u201d is more important than the safety of our troops? And did it occur to any of those dimwitted egomaniacs in the 5-sided peanut butter jar that maybe the business of evacuating the \u2018Stan should have been kept below the table level? Did anyone of those geniuses think that maybe the aircraft we\u2019re leaving behind should be debrained so that nothing will work once we\u2019re gone, never mind the artillery and tanks and all the rest of that stuff? And munitions piles\/in storage should be booby-trapped, too.<\/p>\n

If you want a comparison, Pres. Ford got a message in the middle of a meeting with his energy advisor that Saigon was falling. No plans to evacuate had been announced or planned because the US ambassador blithely dismissed the approach of the NVA as \u201cnothing to worry about\u201d \u2013 and he was wrong. If he had started evacuating people when he had the chance, ahead of the NVA who were shelling villes to the north of Saigon, the panic that occurred and the disastrous evacuation might have been less troublesome.<\/p>\n

This is different. It is pure dumbassery in the form of official announcements AS TO when we were leaving that set up this entire fustercluck and the Taliban knew it. The leader of that bunch of murderous thugs had already met with the Chinese ambassador to do a deal once the USA, et al., had pulled out. However, it is as obvious now as it was when I read about that deal between the Taliban and the Chinese that they weren\u2019t going to wait until 31 August.<\/p>\n

There is nothing going on here that is a surprise; it\u2019s just the length of time it took the Taliban to start their drive to absorb that worthless pisshole country and its inhabitants.<\/p>\n

Shorter than I expected. I thought they\u2019d at least be polite enough to wait another week. That would give us time to boobytrap all that junk we\u2019re leaving behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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