"if you have a deconfliction process with the Taliban why cant you get afghans past the checkpoints" "we're emphasizing that they need to let documented afghans through. right now we see our chokepoint as moving once they get to the airport. but yes there have been incidents"
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conference over, will watch from beginning later
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by which I mean now opens by stating current focus of defense is keeping airport running securely, also increasing pace. flown out several thousand since early August, working to increase the rate "working with State to process paperwork"
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defense secretarys suit and tie ensemble is flawless
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joint chiefs of staff chair has incredibly bushy eyebrows. one eyebrow hair is out of place and hanging over his right eye. v distracting "we/l have some brutal postmortems but right now our priority is evacuating Americans and ppl who supported us. will not leave them."
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"if we identify threats to the airport we will respond militarily and every organization in the country is aware of this"
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"intelligence identified multiple scenarios including this one. but we did not anticipate a collapse in 11 days. [shortest estimate was "weeks"]
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"evacuating the afghans who supported us for twenty years is /personal/ and we're going to get them out."
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confirmation that special forces are operating somewhere, not sure whether this is surprising or whether this means anything
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Replying to @eigenrobot
OK what’s going on now I just downed like a fifth of vodka I’m a little bit behind and away for 20 minutes
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yeah I paused to make some coffee
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