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Taliban Liberate Kabul - Will Announce
Interim Government
All cities are now in Taliban hands as are all
border crossings. President Ashraf Ghani has
resigned.
By Moon of Alabama
August 15, 2021"Information
Clearing House" - "Moon
Of Alabama" -
A new interim government will be announced as soon
as Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrives in Kabul. The
U.S. is frantically evacuating its embassy.
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Remarks by President Biden on the drawdown of
U.S.forces in Afghanistan - July 6, 2021
Q Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now
inevitable?
THE PRESIDENT: No, it is not.
Q Why?
THE PRESIDENT: Because you — the Afghan
troops have 300,000 well-equipped — as
well-equipped as any army in the world — and an
air force against something like 75,000 Taliban.
It is not inevitable.
...
Q Mr. President, will you amplify that question,
please? Will you amplify your answer, please —
why you don’t trust the Taliban?
THE PRESIDENT: It’s a — it’s a silly
question. Do I trust the Taliban? No. But I
trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who
is better trained, better equipped, and more re-
— more competent in terms of conducting war.
...
Q Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see
echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in
Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between
this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam,
with some people feeling —
THE PRESIDENT: None whatsoever. Zero. What
you had is — you had entire brigades breaking
through the gates of our embassy — six, if I’m
not mistaken.
The Taliban is not the south — the North
Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not
remotely comparable in terms of capability.
There’s going to be no circumstance where you
see people being lifted off the roof of a
embassy in the — of the United States from
Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.
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It is not at all comparable. This is a totally
different ... type of helicopter.
Taliban enters Kabul, awaits ‘peaceful transfer’ of
power - August 15, 2021
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters
entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on
Sunday and said they were awaiting a “peaceful
transfer” of the city after promising not to
take it by force, but panicked residents raced
to the leave, with workers fleeing government
offices and helicopters landing at the U.S.
Embassy.
In a nationwide offensive that has taken just
over a week, the Taliban has defeated, co-opted
or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide
swaths of the country, even though they had some
air support from the U.S. military.
On Sunday, they reached Kabul.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom -
6:22 AM · Aug 15, 2021
Boggles the mind that every single person
involved in the post-9/11 fiasco has not gone
into seclusion, made a public apology, committed
seppuku, something, anything. There's more
accountability for a McDonald's franchisee than
the foreign policy/national security
establishment.
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Moon of Alabama @MoonofA -
5:37 UTC · Aug 15, 2021
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