Animal-Mother posted:

https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/549310295362260992

Cpt_Obvious posted:

...why?

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

do you think there will be another "terrorist" "attack" soon

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

do you think there will be another "terrorist" "attack" soon

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

do you think there will be another "terrorist" "attack" soon

Cpt_Obvious posted:

I'm curious as to how many private military contractors got caught with their pants down and stuck behind enemy lines. Where are they in the priority list of evacuees? Are they already gone?

Agrajag posted:

gently caress em i hope they die

mercs are the absolute dog poo poo worst of the worst of humanity

absolute ghouls signing up so they can go shootup brown people with no repercussions they are way more evil than the taliban will ever be

Agrajag posted:

gently caress em i hope they die

mercs are the absolute dog poo poo worst of the worst of humanity

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/helenecooper/status/1426874216914333696?s=20

no bracelets

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/KarzaiH/status/1426922752674435084?s=20

"Following the departure of Mr. Ashraf Ghani and the responsible officials from the country, in order to prevent chaos and reduce the suffering of the people and to better manage the affairs related to peace and peaceful transfer of the Coordinating Council consisting of the esteemed Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the Supreme Council National Reconciliation, Jihadi leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Emir of Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan and former President Hamid Karzai were formed. The council calls on the government security forces and the security forces of the Islamic Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) to resolutely curb the chaos and incitement of irresponsible and unrelated individuals while maintaining restraint."


Ghani flees into exile and Karzai is sitting on the Supreme Council of National Reconciliation.

He's outmaneuvered Ghani one last time. What a pro.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/helenecooper/status/1426874216914333696?s=20

no bracelets

Sad Billionaire posted:

paywalled unfortunately. i really want to know if theyre making people move around kabul wearing bracelets to mark them as collaborators or if they can just put em on right before they get in a queue.

quote:

KABUL, Afghanistan — As the Taliban stood at the gates of Kabul on Sunday, completing the near total takeover of Afghanistan two decades after the American military drove them from power, an eerie quiet that had enveloped the city in recent days transformed into chaos.

A frenzied evacuation of U.S. diplomats and civilians kicked into high gear, while Afghans made a mad dash to the banks, their homes and the airport. Crowds of people ran down the streets as the sound of gunfire echoed in downtown Kabul.

Helicopter after helicopter — including massive Chinooks with their twin engines, and speedy Black Hawks that had been the workhorse of the grinding war — touched down and then took off loaded with passengers. Some dispensed flares overhead, a new addition to Kabul’s skyline.

Those being evacuated included a core group of American diplomats who had planned to remain at the embassy in Kabul, according to a senior administration official. They were being moved to a compound at the international airport, where they would stay for an unspecified amount of time, the official said.

The tarmac of the airport was filled with a constellation of uniforms from different nations. They joined contractors, diplomats and civilians all trying to catch a flight out of the city. Those who were eligible to fly were given special bracelets, denoting their status as noncombatants.

For millions of Afghans, including tens of thousands who assisted the U.S. efforts in the country for years, there were no bracelets. They were stuck in the city.

Rumors abounded: The Taliban were in the city, or weren’t they? Were the Americans securing the palace?

The streets of the city were packed, and many shops were closed. Traffic barely moved.

At one bank in downtown Kabul, a mass of hundreds of people swelled outside, clambering to get in once doors opened. At one point, two men tried to climb a barred gate into the building.

At Abdul Haq Square in the center of the capital, five men who appeared to be Taliban fighters gathered as cars drove by showing their support for the militants.

Two other men, outside the American Embassy, said that they had just been freed by the Taliban from the giant Pul-e-Charkhi Prison.

On one street downtown, a pair of police officers said that they were readying for a fight with the Taliban and had changed into militia clothing. Another group of officers, none with weapons, seemed more curious about whether a house in the once coveted and protected green zone was now empty.

Some police officers appeared to have abandoned their usual checkpoints, leading to speculation that the government was no longer in control.

At a bus station in Kabul, members of the Afghan security forces were seen changing into civilian clothes as they waited for transport to their hometowns.

While President Biden has defended his decision to hold firm and pull the last U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, his administration has become increasingly worried about images that could evoke a foreign policy disaster of the past: the fall of Saigon at the end of the conflict in Vietnam in 1975.

The swift advance of the Taliban has stunned many in the White House.

On Sunday, as a sense of panic gripped Kabul, guards at checkpoints inside the fortified green zone, who typically stop vehicles and check identity cards, lifted their metal barriers and waved all the cars through as the neighborhood drained of foreigners.

Convoys of armored vehicles raced to find safety in the headquarters of what had been the NATO center for its Operation Resolute Support. Others flocked to the Serena Hotel, a heavily fortified hotel popular among foreigners.

At the NATO center, military personnel handed out matchbox-size cardboard containers with ear plugs, and corralled people onto the helicopters. As the aircraft took off for the international airport, dozens of people evacuating got their last glimpses of the capital below — the fate of the city hanging in the balance.

Two Marines, standing by the tarmac at the Kabul airport, acknowledged that they were living a moment of history. A little earlier, they said, someone walked by after exiting one of the helicopters cradling a poorly folded American flag: It had just come down off the embassy.

Cpt_Obvious posted:

...why?

Atrocious Joe posted:

that part of liberal neocon twitter is saying the Taliban has no Afghan support and only exists because of Pakistan. Which was maybe true 20 years ago, before whole generations joined it as an anti-US occupation force.

https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/1426592898351607812?s=20

https://twitter.com/DastageerMuska/status/1426336789334220803?s=20

SKULL.GIF posted:

fits my needs posted:

no bracelets

Tiler Kiwi posted:

mercs are troops that get paid in money instead of valour and thus have no shield against the hatred which should be the correct attitude towards all troops.

mila kunis posted:

you fuckin rear end in a top hat prick the puppet government you supported was an extortion racket that raped children, provided little to no services, and abetted your murder of villages and weddings and innocent people. you had 20 years to do literally anything else!!!!!!!

Sad Billionaire posted:

paywalled unfortunately. i really want to know if theyre making people move around kabul wearing bracelets to mark them as collaborators or if they can just put em on right before they get in a queue.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Regular troops also get money, college, and socialist healthcare for their whole lives

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1379437049728659459

Bideo James posted:

https://twitter.com/warsnotover/status/1426888732653899783?s=20

THAT POOR loving LIBRARY

BeefThief posted:

drat, i feel bad for the tens of thousands of people who worked with us who will undoubtedly be executed within the next week. between this and the abandonment of the Kurds a couple of years ago it should be clear that America still can't be trusted.

R. Mute posted:

just wall to wall hentai