Race to oblivion ! Afghanistan vs. South Vietnam edition

[Redondo]

White House finally puts number on Americans left behind in Afghanistan

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he believes less than 1,000 American citizens are still in Afghanistan and attempting to leave.

Blinken said that there were 6,000 Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan on August 14 and 4,500 of them have been evacuated within the last 10 days. He added that 500 of the remaining number have been instructed on how to leave within the last 24 hours. That leaves roughly 1,000 Americans left in the country, but Blinken said the actual number is lower for a variety of reasons, including situations where Americans want to stay or have already left and not notified the government. 

According to Blinken, 82,300 people have been flown out of Kabul since August 14.

[Jason]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

200,000 new voters!

What if they liked Trump?

[Jason]

39 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

She doesn't need them for her seat, that I wish I could sniff.

What if she's yeasty? 

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

What if she's yeasty? 

Then we shall make beer!

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Then we shall make beer!

The AOC IPA. With notes of pine, citrus and mackerel 

[UndertheHalo]

Not necessarily an automatic that an Afghan would be a Democratic vote.  Extremely conservative culture as we all know. 
 

like I said before.  I don’t really understand the knee jerk impulse some liberals are espousing about setting up a mass immigration program for Afghans.  I don’t oppose Afghans coming here but I don’t understand what we’re offering these people.  The great majority of them are destitute and culturally it’s not an easy transition.  These aren’t relatively well educated Syrians or Iraqis who were like mechanics or  something.  People who at least on some level would recognize life here.  I mean this is an issue that needs to be considered.  
 

the people who are obviously in danger - the people who could be identified as collaborators - of course should be able to come here.  

Edited August 25, 2021 by UndertheHalo

[Jason]

1 minute ago, UndertheHalo said:

Not necessarily an automatic that an Afghan would be a Democratic vote.  Extremely conservative culture as we all know. 
 

like I said before.  I don’t really understand the knee jerk impulse some liberals are espousing about setting up a mass immigration program for Afghans.  I don’t oppose Afghans coming here but I don’t understand what we’re offering these people.  The great majority of them are destitute and culturally it’s not an easy transition.  These aren’t relatively well educated Syrians or Iraqis who were like mechanics or  something.  People who at least on some level world recognize life here.  I mean this is an issue that needs to be considered.  
 

the people who are obviously in danger - the people who could be identified as collaborators - of course should be able to come here.  

Culturally the US is drastically different from Afghanistan that many of these refugees are going to be uncomfortable here. I'm certain they would rather stay over there but are truly worried about their families. I'm not sure what the best course of action is as their assimilation here will be difficult. I honestly feel bad for them.  

[Kotchman]

I don’t think we are all that different anymore. Ignorant ass punchers basically run the Democrat party so there is a lot of common ground with the Afghans 

[mmc]

 

[tdawg87]

Phew. I'm definitely not traveling to Kabul, now.

[Rico]

Man, sucks that people's vacations to a war zone got cut short.

[Blarg]

They had a choice of Kabul or Chicago and felt the risk of being shot in Afghanistan was considerably lower. 

[Taylor]

4 hours ago, Rico said:

Man, sucks that people's vacations to a war zone got cut short.

I'm guessing it was mostly people visiting their families.

[Amazing Larry]

Say what you will about Erik Prince but he doesn’t say anything wrong in this interview. 

 

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

I'm guessing it was mostly people visiting their families.

There were also people there providing humanitarian aid.

[Redondo]

[tdawg87]

I still love the empty thought bubble.

[gotbeer]

The boxers are a nice touch.  

[gotbeer]

Pentagon confirms explosion outside Kabul airport as U.S. rushes toward Afghanistan evacuation deadline

Going to be hard to evacuate the Americans if they keep being told to shelter in place.

[Amazing Larry]

 

[Amazing Larry]

 

[Jason]

4 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

 

No way! Who could have seen this coming?

[fan_since79]

Well, there had been warnings in the past few days of an imminent ISIS attack.

But they're the JV team according to Obama, so it can't be that bad.

 

[Amazing Larry]

 

[fan_since79]

I wonder if this will change Biden's mind about August 31st.