Our lumbering old C130 is still puttering its way to Afghanistan, but by the time it gets there it is highly unlikely that there will be anyone left to pick up.
Meanwhile President Joe Biden, who has copped a shellacking in recent days for his ill-considered and heartless interviews and public statements has gone back into hiding, shunning all media:
In what appears to be a continuation of his campaign bunker strategy, and following his widely panned interview with ABC News on the stunning fall of Afghanistan, President Biden’s schedule Thursday contained no planned public remarks or press briefings.
The president took all public remarks, press briefings and press conferences off his schedule as he and his administration deal with the blowback from their botched troop withdrawal that saw Kabul fall into the hands of the Taliban.
Fox News
Back in Kabul, things are getting very tense. The hapless CNN reporter, Clarissa Ward, who previously claimed some Taliban fighters on a Kabul street were chanting ‘Death to America’ but observed that “they seemed friendly enough at the same time”, has found out that they aren’t really that friendly after all:
CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward on Wednesday delivered a report from the ground of Kabul, Afghanistan, following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Ward said she and her crew were “accosted” just outside of the Kabul Airport and she was forced to cover her face. After showing that a Taliban member took the safety off of his AK-47 and ran through a crowd of people, she aired a clip of a Taliban member charging her and a producer with the butt of a gun.
“You can see that some of these Taliban fighters, they’re just hopped up on adrenaline or I don’t know what,” Ward said. “It’s a very dicey situation.”
She added, “When the fighters are told we have permission to report, they lower their weapons and let us pass.”
Ward told Jake Tapper, host of “The Lead”, that she and her crew have been “exposed to all sorts of insanity.”
“And you can imagine, Jake, I mean, this is us. We are a news crew. We are clearly Western. And still, we were exposed to all sorts of insanity,” Ward emphasized. “If you’re an ordinary Afghan trying to get past those Taliban guards and trying to get into the airport, I mean, I just don’t see how you’re able to do it. I don’t see how you’re able to really get in unless you have some kind of a contact or a connection or you’re able to arrange something somehow.”
“Frankly, Jake, there’s no real hope,” she added.
Breitbart
And it was was reported yesterday that the Taliban have started picking up former aides to the Western forces who operated in Afghanistan, contrary to their promises not to:
Accounts of the Taliban searching for people they believe worked with and fought alongside US and NATO forces are beginning to trickle out, offering a bloody counterpoint to the kinder, gentler face that the militants have been trying to present to the world.
The militants are threatening to arrest or punish family members if they cannot find the people they are seeking, according to former Afghan officials, a confidential report prepared for the United Nations, and American veterans who have been contacted by desperate Afghans who served alongside them. Most spoke on condition of anonymity to protect friends and loved ones still hiding in Afghanistan.
NZ Herald
When you add that to what Clarissa Ward experienced at the airport then you know that it really is a forlorn hope that our C130 is going to actually bring anyone out. Planes are now leaving Kabul almost completely empty:
A shocking image shows a near-empty mercy flight taking the wife of an ex-Royal Marine commando out of Kabul despite Britain and the US insisting the evacuation is in full swing as thousands of trapped Western nationals and Afghans try to flee the Taliban.
Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing, a British expat who lives in Kabul, has been separated from his wife during the chaos engulfing Afghanistan. He said on Twitter that she is now on her way home, and shared an image of the inside of what is believed to be a Norwegian plane.
‘Kaisa is on her way home! BUT this aircraft is empty… scandalous as thousands wait outside Kabul airport being crushed as they cannot get in. Sadly people will be left behind when this mission is over as we CANNOT get it right‘, the ex-Marine wrote.
In all likelihood, Kris Faafoi and Jacinda Ardern are going to have blood on their hands as the situation deteriorates. There is now talk of a brewing hostage crisis:
Now there are unknown thousands of Americans trapped in Afghanistan, subject to the will of the Taliban thugs who will stoop to any brutality, including beheadings, cutting off limbs, beating to death, skinning alive, etc. etc., to get what they want.
And what will they want when they realize in a couple of weeks that they have been handed thousands of valuable hostages who can be ransomed, sold to eager buyers in Beijing, Moscow, and every cartel headquarters in Mexico, or paraded before cameras for horrifying executions designed to terrify the American public as cells spring into deadly action on our shores after being planted here by al Qaeda, ISIS and dozens of other terrorist groups who have been infiltrating this country through the Southern border since Biden knocked down Trump’s wall?
Yes, read that paragraph again.
“Debacle” doesn’t begin to describe what Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken — actively aided and abetted from before day one of their administration by the mainstream media and big tech — have brought upon America.
PJ Media
No wonder Jacinda Ardern wants to keep everyone distracted with a tight lockdown. She can’t afford the splatter of this debacle landing in her lap, but land it must. She and Faafoi could have brought everyone out in May. They dithered, they prevaricated, and even on July 5 they still had a chance to do the right thing. But they didn’t.
They need to own this.
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