Biden pledges to Americans in Kabul: 'We will get you home'

[TheProle]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pledged firmly on Friday to bring all Americans home from Afghanistan — and Afghans who aided the war effort, too — even as countless would-be evacuees struggled to get past crushing crowds, Taliban airport checkpoints and sometimes-insurmountable U.S. bureaucracy.

“We will get you home,” Biden promised Americans who were still in Afghanistan days after the Taliban retook control of Kabul, ending a two-decade war.

His comments, delivered at the White House, were intended to project purpose and stability at the conclusion of a week during which images from Afghanistan more often suggested chaos, especially at the airport.

But his commitment to find a way out for Afghan allies vulnerable to Taliban attacks amounted to a potentially vast expansion of Washington’s promises, given the tens of thousands of Afghan translators and other helpers, and their close family members, seeking evacuation.

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[twin_ghost]

1. Making a pledge like this is a bad idea.

Biden should have gotten the embassy personal and military people out and then let the American Citizens travel through Pakistan to the United States if they wanted to return.

[msongs]

2. agreed, this way if even ONE is not gotten out it will labeled a failure and on its face

that will be true.

[secondwind]

3. I kinda like it. It's comforting and shows how much he cares.

[cstanleytech]

4. Unless the Republicans make a secret deal with the taliban to betray

Americans with the intent of harming Democrats in the midterm elections and during the next presidential election.

[C Moon]

5. Yes. You can bet your bottom dollar the gop is setting up to make someone die.

[tavernier]

6. Gees oh pete just stop sending our soldiers

to straighten out problems in foreign countries unless there is a cry for help from the majority of the citizenry. And then not to act as babysitters when your army doesn’t give a shit.