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Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts) Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:15 AM Sep 2021

One Kabul airport, one target. But slow evacuations, using all of the available airports

would have provided many targets for suicide bombers. Not buying the argument I'm hearing from a guest on MSNBC. It was a crap shoot, either way and I think we got out with fewer mishaps than had we chosen another option.

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One Kabul airport, one target. But slow evacuations, using all of the available airports (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Sep 2021 OP

And Unless They Were Part Of The Situation That Guest Doesn't Really Know Me. Sep 2021 #1

Plus we would have had to send in a lot more troops to protect them. nt chowder66 Sep 2021 #2

I think the timing was a stroke of luck. kentuck Sep 2021 #3

Me.

(35,454 posts)

1. And Unless They Were Part Of The Situation That Guest Doesn't Really Know

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:26 AM

Sep 2021

they are all guessing with claims to some kind of expertise. But they don't really know.

chowder66

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2. Plus we would have had to send in a lot more troops to protect them. nt

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Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:34 AM

Sep 2021

kentuck

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3. I think the timing was a stroke of luck.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:39 AM

Sep 2021

The Taliban was very busy attempting to figure out who was going to run the new government and what roles each of the tribesman was to play, and this gave the Americans a perfect time to get out of the place. It was more important for them to organize to not attack themselves than to organize and attack the Americans. Just an opinion.

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