The domestic news cycle has pretty much come to a halt this afternoon after suicide bombings attributed to the terrorist group ISIS killed dozens of people including at least 12 American service members outside the gate to Kabul Airport in Afghanistan, where the U.S. military continues a massive effort to airlift tens of thousands of refugees and American citizens out of the country.
There’s not much we can add to the reporting going on right now from the scene and from Washington, but do take a moment to watch this interview with Colorado’s Rep. Jason Crow, an Afghanistan war veteran, a short while ago on MSNBC–in which Crow re-affirms his support for the withdrawal from the country, saying “our combat mission in Afghanistan is over.” But our obligation to our Afghan allies is not:
The “new mission” Rep. Crow says is incumbent on the nation is to ensure that no one who collaborated with the United States during the occupation of Afghanistan and is now at risk of reprisal is left behind, even if that means continuing to hold the airport after the August 31st deadline:
We do not leave American citizens behind in a war zone. We do not leave our friends and partners behind in a war zone. We are the United States of America. We stand by our people. We stand by our citizens. We have the strongest military in the world. Over 2,400 of our troops have been killed over the last 20 years, including when I was doing combat missions as an Army Ranger, and never once did we allow terrorists or people attacking us to stop one of our missions. We decide when we stop one of our missions, and we stop when we get the job done.
Whether you agree or disagree with Rep. Crow on the deadline to withdraw, he is defending the integrity of our country before the whole world and that to us is above reproach. Everyone including the two Presidents before Joe Biden agreed this war had to end. Now it’s a question of ending it with promises kept or broken by America on the way out.
The headlines are difficult today, but we’re proud of Rep. Jason Crow.
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Straight talking. Glad this man now serves as our elected representative.
Indeed. Trump said that ISIS was dead and defeated. Obviously not.
ISIS also killed Afghan civilians and Taliban guards in the bombings, according to Yahoo.
Rep. Crow seems to have perspective missing in so many Representatives. Here's hoping he can influence the House, putting the focus on the limited mission of getting people out.
Later, there can be clarification of what lessons ought to be learned from pursuit of multiple goals over the years. I expect he will be in the midst of that effort, too.
“perspective missing in so many Representatives……” Yeah, like Lauren Boebert & Doug Lamborn?
That would be "perspectives not worth shit".
I'm surprised Moderatus, Captain America, and Roger Edwards haven't made cameo appearances this afternoon to explain how this was entirely Biden's fault.
Nutlid, Sgt. Schultz and pear-shape seem to be out of commission.
That's Brobert's specialty. Assign blame and don't contribute.
I don't have to rub your face in it this time. The polls are doing it for me. This is a disaster for Biden and the Democrat Party. In 2023 after Republicans take back the House (and we are taking back the House in 2022) it could very well lead to impeachment.
But I'm not going to have a flamewar with liberals today, because above all this is a sad day for America. American Marines died needlessly today and our country is the laughingstock of the world.
I only hope America can hold together until Republicans take back power.
Want to tell us about this deal, dipshit?
This country held together through January 6 insurrectionists. It will hold together now.
We lost 33 servicemen in Afghanistan and Yemen in Trumps first year. I don’t recall you mentioning those deaths as making us a laughing stock of the world? (which I understand is a real feeling in that shriveled Q brain of yours).
You’d think that if there’s one thing in this world that Fluffy might surely have some little insight into, it would have to be laughingstocks? . . .
. . . alas, poor imbecile doesn’t even recognize that face what appears in his grammy’s bathroom mirror every morning . . .
Fluffy may not remember Trump's infamous speech before the UN General Assembly when world leaders literally were laughing at him.
Remember the time TFG deleted nine tweets trying to spell subpoena?
Our allies are being excoriated for doing no better:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-we-said-we-would-help-them-now-canada-has-abandoned-the-afghans-who/
Noodledick doesn't care about our Afghan allies. He doesn't even care about U.S. soldiers. He just sees an opportunity for his fascist insurrectionists to take power and will use the soldiers as props to do it. Just like his party does.
This is the awful state of the Trumper party where they celebrate losses of Americans because it means they have another shot at seizing power for all time. I bet if you ask this insurrectionist if the Sandy Hook murders deserved as much grief and attention, he/she would laugh. That's how fucked up they are as people.
Roger is a Vietnam vet. I doubt he would demagogue Afghanistan. As usual, there is enough blame to go around. But we are making a strong if belated effort to get our friends out. I agree with Rep. Crow in general.
One thing that everyone can count on is Biden having empathy towards the families for what they are going through. He knows how painful loss is.
You can count on Biden to show empathy. You can count on Republicans like our little noodle dick to use soldiers' deaths as an electoral opportunity.
Jason Crow shows us how a responsible, patriotic American congress person acts in the face of a tragedy.
Now that our two-decade mission is over, I'm stuck wondering what that mission was?
. . . What I do think I know is this: Some day, in the not too distant future (another ten years maybe), there's gonna' be another Ronald Reagan. (I know, sucks horseshoes, but . . .) And, given the arc of the Republican party over the past half century, there's no doubt that the next RR will be exponentially more lunatic than even the original — imagine that?!
Anyway, if I were a small Caribbean island nation right now, I'd be keeping my nose extra clean . . .
. . . Americans know where you're at, and how to find you, Grenada! — well, some do anyway . . . in general, sorta. Tick-tock . . .