Newfie wrote:Well CNN has turned in Biden pretty hard. Now replaying his past new conferences where he promised/assured an orderly drawdown..
dissident wrote:One take on this issue that seems credible to me is that the move to delay the withdrawal after the agreed to date by Biden was a stupid move. Apparently the Taliban had signed on to a transition process but when the US in a single sided fashion broke the terms of the agreement, they washed their hands of any commitments. So here Biden does deserve blame for screwing up the withdrawal.
Washington (CNN)A group of US diplomats wrote a classified cable to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in mid-July warning that swift action needed to be taken because they believed the situation in Afghanistan could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe.
They laid out how the department should act quickly to process and evacuate Afghans who had assisted the United States and get them out of the country quickly.
The diplomats decided to send the dissent memo because they felt previous warnings and recommendations they had made were being ignored and labeled alarmist, two State Department officials told CNN.
The classified cable, signed by more than a dozen US diplomats, urged specific steps to be taken, including starting a biometric enrollment program for the Afghans applying for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) or refugee status ahead of the evacuation, so they wouldn't waste time before what they believed would be the imminent collapse of the Afghan government as the US withdrew
vtsnowedin wrote:May I predict that this and the ongoing border debacle have now sealed the mid term elections solidly in the Republicans favor.
The Democrats can not point to a single thing they have tried to do that has come out as a success.
Newfie wrote:CNN Report on that same matter.Washington (CNN)A group of US diplomats wrote a classified cable to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in mid-July warning that swift action needed to be taken because they believed the situation in Afghanistan could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe.
They laid out how the department should act quickly to process and evacuate Afghans who had assisted the United States and get them out of the country quickly.
The diplomats decided to send the dissent memo because they felt previous warnings and recommendations they had made were being ignored and labeled alarmist, two State Department officials told CNN.
The classified cable, signed by more than a dozen US diplomats, urged specific steps to be taken, including starting a biometric enrollment program for the Afghans applying for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) or refugee status ahead of the evacuation, so they wouldn't waste time before what they believed would be the imminent collapse of the Afghan government as the US withdrew
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/politics ... index.html
Just because I distrust Zero Hedge, yet in this case they match CNN.
Newfie wrote:CNN Report on that same matter.Washington (CNN)A group of US diplomats wrote a classified cable to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in mid-July warning that swift action needed to be taken because they believed the situation in Afghanistan could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe.
They laid out how the department should act quickly to process and evacuate Afghans who had assisted the United States and get them out of the country quickly.
The diplomats decided to send the dissent memo because they felt previous warnings and recommendations they had made were being ignored and labeled alarmist, two State Department officials told CNN.
The classified cable, signed by more than a dozen US diplomats, urged specific steps to be taken, including starting a biometric enrollment program for the Afghans applying for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) or refugee status ahead of the evacuation, so they wouldn't waste time before what they believed would be the imminent collapse of the Afghan government as the US withdrew
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/politics ... index.html
Newfie wrote:IF the story ends with the evacuation then things will likely die down and Biden will be OK.
IF the Taliban take American citizen hostages, as I believe likely, then this could hurt Biden and the Democrats very badly. They do not need many hostages, a couple of hundred would be more than enough.
Newfie wrote:....even if the central government keeps no hostages the various tribes may keep a few, to squeeze the central government. I am purely guessing there are 5 to 10 tribal entities with the ability to take and keep hostages so I think the possibility of hostages is high.
Newfie wrote:The other potentially negative is if there is some significant difficulty in Europe due evacuees. Say a large influx that destabilizes some governments. That could start a blame game against the USA, which would drag on and Biden would own.
because of the closings, students were forced to cross gang boundaries, something Emanuel did not initially consider. His solution? Creating safe passage routes using police and school employees. Eventually, he had to bring in the city’s firefighters to double as security guards.
Newfie wrote:Reading a LA Times story and came across this passage….because of the closings, students were forced to cross gang boundaries, something Emanuel did not initially consider. His solution? Creating safe passage routes using police and school employees. Eventually, he had to bring in the city’s firefighters to double as security guards.
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What I do care about is a city where kids need escorts through safe passage sones to get to school.
Talk about failures in Afghanistan? We need to escort citizens to the airport.
Hell, we have that in Chicago!
Chicago had been under Democrat control since 1938.
One party rule sucks, which ever party.
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