What has happened with the reported 100 - 200

[doc03]

Americans in Afganistan? I admit I don't watch cable news so much any more but it is like they just disappeared. I have seen nothing on DU.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Last I heard there were privately funded charters removing Americans, don't know any numbers.

[doc03]

3. The MSM is fixated on one white girl. As far as I know

They are still sitting on a plane in Kabul.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Some Americans will be staying

The Taliban is not preventing people from leaving, so I don't think there is danger there right now.

[hlthe2b]

4. a lot of them have been evacuated in a state department-sponsored ongoing commercial airline

effort... The Taliban has (it appears) lived up to a commitment to allow those to continue--at least for a while.

[Champp]

5. 19 formal warnings from US State Department

Those 19 warnings to get out began in March or April, and continued right up to the actual evacuation. Those who are still there chose to ignore those bluntly stated official warnings. They chose to stay. Their fate is directly their own willful doing.

The "party of personal responsibility" wants to continue its infantile tantrum about this, basically asking Big Government to be a fugging NANNY for people.

Talk about rank Republican bullshit and hypocrisy.

[doc03]

7. My opinion there was more money to be made

is why they are still there. It is unbelievable the money
government contractors made over there.

[Phoenix61]

9. I think some were dual citizens and some had family there

and were staying to help get them out. The contractors would have been pulled by the companies they worked for.

[pwb]

6. They like it there?

Fuck them.

[dalton99a]

8. Americans who wanted to leave have left

Qatar Airways has been flying in and out of Kabul for weeks

https://nypost.com/2021/09/09/150-americans-to-board-qatar-commercial-flight-out-of-kabul/
150 Americans arrive ‘safely’ in Qatar from Kabul aboard commercial flight
By Emily Crane
September 9, 2021

[Baked Potato]

12. This is an experience your military son will cherish forever.

I know you are very proud and I am happy for you and your family.

[Baked Potato]

15. YW, I remember you mentioning your son going to Qatar.

The military is a big family that takes pretty good care of each other, and time will fly.

[Scrivener7]

10. I know I saw that 89 came out in one day. Other reports show other large numbers.

Totaling well over 200.

This coverage is very hinky. The evacuation was done as well as something like that could be done. And now it is done.

[maxsolomon]

14. 2nd story in a 5 second Google search:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/afghanistan-withdrawal-live-updates/?id=79482353

From 5 days ago.