This thing on?
NEW —
3:45 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on Afghanistan
White House
In-House Pool and
Pre-Credentialed
Media Coverage
https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1427284232607604744
China basically telling Taiwan, "Surrender now, US won't help"
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1427267130467119104
Taliban fighter warns CNN reporter US troops need to stay out of Afghanistan
A Taliban fighter offered a simple warning to CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward on Sunday when asked about the group's message for the United States.
"America already spent enough time in Afghanistan," he said. "They need to leave, they already lost lots of time and lots of money."
The fighter told Ward "everything is under control" and said Afghan citizens should not "worry" about the militant group's occupation of the war-torn nation.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/567992-taliban-fighter-warns-cnn-reporter-us-troops-need-to-stay-out-of-afghanistan
‘What’s happening now is worse’: Midway skipper who pushed choppers off deck in fall of Saigon
“To be perfectly honest with you, what is happening now is worse than what happened in Vietnam,” Chambers said in an interview with Military Times, several days before the Taliban actually entered Kabul.
Chambers, now 92 and living in Sun City Center, Florida, has a unique perspective.
During the fall of Saigon, Chambers was skipper of the aircraft carrier Midway. Just months after taking command, he oversaw the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and Vietnamese military and civilians during Operation Frequent Wind, which took place April 29 and 30, 1975.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/08/15/whats-happening-now-is-worse-midway-skipper-who-pushed-choppers-off-deck-in-fall-of-saigon/
CNN reporter on the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan: “They’re just chanting ‘Death to America,’ but they seem friendly at the same time.”
https://twitter.com/sophiabfisher/status/1427277156913139716
Doha
Really disturbing footage of people falling from a US Air Force jet that was leaving #Afghanistan and in en route to Doha.
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1427221556166541312
A known female reporter, right.
They didn't remember Kim Barker?
Related;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taliban_Shuffle
We are watching a movie.
Is there an enemy of America for whom
@CNN
WON’T cheerlead?
(In mandatory burkas, no less.)
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1427291774855393281
Afghan forces training.
https://twitter.com/Shinoha94456815/status/1427250744302911489
See >>14367912
I was up at 6AM local time and it feels like a day has gone by.
There never was an "Afghan army." It was a mercenary enterprise and ghost army that folded as soon as the money stopped. The 20 year lie must come to an end.
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1427299094381441024
Our goals in Afghanistan were to make sure there was not ungoverned space where terror could be launched and to make sure our service members came home safe.
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1427303288496603144
And, as if a switch were flipped, the Afghanistan story stopped being tweeted about.