Afghanistan- no accountability

[Paladin]

U.S. Citizen: State Department Didn’t Help Me Get Out of Afghanistan, Why Did They Leave Me Behind ‘With My Family?

Hats off to the brave Americans who came to the rescue of this woman and so many others that Uncle Joe and Milley left behind

[Rafe]

And this from Pennsylvania...

[striker55]

And this from Pennsylvania...

Love it!

[philip964]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/gr ... fort-mccoy

New Afghanistan refugees off to good start in America, beating wives, raping children and still on a US Air Force base.

[Paladin]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/gr ... fort-mccoy

New Afghanistan refugees off to good start in America, beating wives, raping children and still on a US Air Force base.

The gift that won't stop giving. If the French experience with Algeria is a guide, this will be an open wound for a long time.

[philip964]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/gr ... fort-mccoy

New Afghanistan refugees off to good start in America, beating wives, raping children and still on a US Air Force base.

The gift that won't stop giving. If the French experience with Algeria is a guide, this will be an open wound for a long time.

https://www.axios.com/taliban-afghanist ... ec9ad.html

Taliban off to good start in Afghanistan, bringing back hacking off hands for stealing and stoning for unmarried sex.

[anygunanywhere]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/gr ... fort-mccoy

New Afghanistan refugees off to good start in America, beating wives, raping children and still on a US Air Force base.

The gift that won't stop giving. If the French experience with Algeria is a guide, this will be an open wound for a long time.

https://www.axios.com/taliban-afghanist ... ec9ad.html

Taliban off to good start in Afghanistan, bringing back hacking off hands for stealing and stoning for unmarried sex.

Except for relations with goats, donkeys, or young boys.

[philip964]

Assault on female US service member by male Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss under FBI investigation

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-in ... fort-bliss

[philip964]

It didn’t take long for this to be made. Unfortunately too true to be very funny. Best line something like why couldn’t have Xiden been President during WW2.

[Rafe]

He was relieved of command.

More...

Marine fired for slamming military over Afghan exit issues warning to superiors
https://www.foxnews.com/world/marine-fi ... xit-issues

Lt. Col. Scheller criticized senior leadership for their lack of accountability on Afghanistan

Scheller’s father, Stuart Sr., told The Post his son was "the real deal, a Marine’s Marine. People will follow him to the ends of the earth. He has put his life on the line for fellow Marines so putting his career on the line like this does not surprise us."

From Military Times yesterday, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your ... iolations/

"Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has formally been charged with six violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and has been referred to a special court-martial..."

Scheller has been charged with Article 88 (contempt toward officials), Article 89 (disrespect toward superior commissioned officers), Article 90 (willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer), Article 92 (dereliction in the performance of duties), Article 92 (failure to obey order or regulation) and Article 133 (conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman).

[MadMonkey]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 021-10-01/

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Something unexpected is happening at U.S. military bases hosting Afghan evacuees: Many hundreds of them are simply leaving before receiving U.S. resettlement services, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters.

The number of "independent departures," which top 700 and could be higher, has not been previously reported. But the phenomenon is raising alarms among immigration advocates concerned about the risks to Afghans who give up on what is now an open-ended, complex and completely voluntary resettlement process.

The scale of the independent departures vary from base to base, according to the sources - more than 300 alone at Fort Bliss in Texas

Nothing to see here, folks.

Of course, I can easily understand wanting to escape Ft. Bliss by any means possible

At this point all I can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all. We're in a mess.

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-wont-us- ... 28541.html

Taliban will not work with US to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan.

So we are back to where we were in August 2001.

Except now they are better armed and really hate personally now.

[philip964]

https://www.emilypostnews.com/p/newborn ... her-beaten

Father in hiding with newborn in basement.

[Rafe]

I don't know if this means or is really indicative of anything, but it just makes me continue to think about the incoming Biden administration's promise of "Trust and Transparency" (Forbes, January 20, 2021, "Biden's White House Press Secretary Promises 'Trust And Transparency'").

From Task & Purpose November 1:

The Pentagon quietly removed more than 130,000 Afghanistan War photos and videos from public view
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentago ... rom-dvids/

The Pentagon has quietly removed a massive collection of Afghanistan War footage totaling more than 120,000 photos and 17,000 videos from its official visual record.

The images and videos, which date back more than a decade, were previously published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS, a vast repository of public domain material that’s available for use by the public and the press....

Kirby [Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby] said on Monday that he made the decision to temporarily archive any images and videos that could put Afghans in danger.

Associated with that statement about the safety of our Afghan friends during and following the smooth and orderly exit from Afghanistan is the somewhat curious fact that it's November 2 and 85% of the Afghans who were able to evacuate Afghanistan are still housed at U.S. military bases (L.A. Times, November 1). According to the Biden administration, 67,000 of our Afghan allies were able to get out after the almost instantaneous takeover by the Taliban, yet only 10,000 have been resettled in U.S. communities across the country...and that achieved only with the help of nonprofit agencies.

We can have an open southern border--where the most recent Customs and Border Patrol data show that fiscal year 2021 (ended as of Sep 30) has seen the highest number of arrests ever recorded (some news reports erroneously stated it was the highest number since 1986); more than 1.3 million illegal immigrants have been arrested at the border since Biden took office, and an untold but no doubt astronomical number of others escaped detection and crossed successfully--and the Biden administration has no problem absorbing them into the U.S. population mainstream and even hint at plans to give them huge monetary rewards (Fox News, October 30, "Reported Biden plan to pay illegal immigrants $450K could surpass payments to some 9/11, military families"). Yet for more than two and a half months we can do no better for allies who fought beside us for 20 years than to keep them at military encampments? And the 15% who have been resettled required the assistance of non-governmental charitable agencies?

Come on, man.

[philip964]

https://sydneynewstoday.com/19-people-k ... al/408871/

ISIS bombs Kabul Hospital 19 dead many wounded. Interesting US MSM only says "at least 3 dead".

Interesting how I have to go to overseas news sources to get the real information.

And if you just google hospital bombing, first thing that pops up is a 2015 bombing of a hospital by US forces.

Interesting how that is.