Afghanistan

[Jersey Girl]

Same one as before.

Thank you.

Now this...as promised.

US military conducts airstrike against ISIS-K planner

"U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan," spokesman Capt. Bill Urban said.

"Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties," Urban continued.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/politics ... index.html

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

-_- Guess who this is. -_-

So I set up a conversation with him, and people said oh, you shouldn't be talking. Well, I set up a conversation with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. We didn't have a nuclear war. Had I not, then Obama would have been right. We would have had a nuclear war. President Obama said to me we're going to have a nuclear war with North Korea. I said have you ever spoken to him. He said no. And I said don't you think that might be a good idea. But anyway, I know he wanted to speak to him, but he never got to speak to him, and I think the other side didn't want to talk to Obama. So what happened is I spoke to the head of the, the known head, because it's...

-_- Nuclear war. And, he didn’t know who he talked to. -_-

Yeah, but I spoke to, and sort of the known head, but nobody was sure, but now I'm sure, and I was sure then when I was speaking to him. And I knew as soon as I spoke to him. And even the introduction, I say hello, and he screamed something very tough. And I then started with him. I said, listen, before we start the longtime conversation and conversations that we're going to have, I have to say one thing, and I'll never have to say it again to you. And here's what I say. If you do anything bad to the United States of America, if you do anything bad to any of our civilians, to any American citizen, or if you do anything out of the normal, you know, they've been fighting for a thousand years, but out of the normal, because you've had your wars, and if you do anything out of the normal, but anything bad to America or any American citizens, I will hit you harder than anybody has ever been hit in world history. You will be hit harder than any country and any person has ever been hit in world history. And we will start with the exact location and the exact town, and it's right here. And I believe I repeated the name of his town. That will be the first place that we start. And I won't be able to speak to you anymore after that, and isn't that a very sad thing? But that is the story. And then he asked me one question, and I'd rather not repeat that question, because it's a very scary question. But he asked me one question, and I gave him the answer yes. And then after it was all done, I said OK, now I've said what I'm going to say. Let's have a conversation. And I said we're going to be leaving after 21 years. And when we leave, you're going to leave us alone, and we're going to leave with great dignity and great honor. And we are going to take care of this situation. We're going to take our time. We had a date of May 1, but they missed a couple of conditions. We had some very strong conditions, Hugh. But they missed a couple of conditions. I wanted to be out by May 1. I had spoken to him quite a bit before May 1, but we had a condition of May 1. But they missed conditions, and so therefore, I bombed and we hit them very hard. And then we said we will agree to those conditions. I said no, you've already agreed to them. Don't play games. We had them so good. They weren't in Kabul. You take a look at when they started taking over Afghanistan. It's when I left. When I left, that's when it started, they started going wild, because they were dealing with another president. And I never realized, and of course I realized the importance and power of the presidency, but I never realized how important the office of the president is until this happened, because when I watched what happened over the last week and a half with some horrible, stupid decisions that were made, number one being allowing our military to leave before the civilians and before we get all of our equipment back, $83 billion dollars. And not, nobody can even comprehend that much equipment. Thousands of vehicles, thousands, you saw the list of vehicles.

-_- Good, Lord. And the GQP’ers claim Biden is mentally unfit. -_-

[Alf'Omega]

Good Lord is right.

[canpakes]

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Let’s hope for thoroughness …

In the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the U.S. "demilitarized," or rendered useless, nearly 170 pieces of equipment in Kabul, according to the head of U.S. Central Command.

General Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie in a press briefing Monday announcing the completion of the withdrawal from Afghanistan said the U.S. on its way out of Hamid Karzai International Airport destroyed up to 70 MRAPs and 23 Humvees - military vehicles - and 73 aircraft.

"Those aircraft will never fly again," McKenzie said. "They'll never be able to be operated by anyone. Most of them were non-mission capable, to begin with, but certainly they'll never be able to be flown again."

In the final days of the withdrawal, the U.S. balanced loading or destroying equipment with the need to evacuate people out of Afghanistan. Some of the equipment was taken out on flights, demilitarized at the airport, or destroyed in controlled blasts.

A U.S. official confirmed to CBS News last week that the U.S. military was conducting controlled explosions of ammunition at the airport to lighten the airlift load before departing.

The pieces that were left behind at the airport and "demilitarized" were either "too f***ing big," like the MRAPs, according to one official, which can weigh 14 tons, or were old pieces of equipment belonging to the now toppled Afghan Air Force that were largely defunct anyway.

A video posted on Twitter Monday showed members of the Taliban walking into the airport looking at the defunct equipment left behind.

"I would tell you that they can inspect all they want. They can look at them, they can walk around, but they can't fly them," Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told CNN in an interview Tuesday morning.

"They can't operate them. We made sure to demilitarize - to make unusable all the gear that is at the airport," Kirby said. "The only thing we left operable are a couple of fire trucks and forklifts so that the airport can remain more operational going forward."

There is still equipment outside the airport that the Taliban took control of when it overran the Afghan Forces in the leadup to the fall of Kabul on August 15. Kirby in a recent press briefing said the U.S. military does not have an exact inventory of the equipment the Taliban now has.

"Some [pieces of equipment] were turned over to the Afghans," Kirby said. "And we're working through right now to try to get a better sense of what that would look like."
In the days leading up to the final withdrawal from Kabul, officials said lives were the priority.

The U.S. military and coalition partners in Afghanistan evacuated more than 123,000 civilians in what was the largest noncombatant evacuation in the U.S. military's history. The operation ended one minute before the deadline of August 31 on the east coast. The mission ended without completing the evacuation of U.S. citizens and many vulnerable Afghans.

"There's a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure," McKenzie said. "We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out."

[Alf'Omega]

Say what>???

How is this possible? FOX News has assured us for weeks now that hundreds of Americans are "trapped" with no way out. Now we learn, yet again, that some Americans are declining to leave.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-up ... d=79482353

[doubtingthomas]

Military and other intelligence assets appear to have exagerated the success of building an Afghan army willing to resist the Taliban.

Afghanistan is not the only country with problems.

[huckelberry]

Military and other intelligence assets appear to have exagerated the success of building an Afghan army willing to resist the Taliban.

Afghanistan is not the only country with problems.

Doubtingthomas, I do not think there is anybody who would not believe your statement but I am unsure what you intended by add the observation. You could clarify or just leave people to ponder. Where else can we go and get entangled in trouble? There are possibilities and new ones will arise.

Body counts can come quicker than solutions.