ok so gaming this out a bit there are probably several dozen thousand people we want to get out of Afghanistan of them maybe a dozen thousand Americans according to various government things we basically own the airport but Taliban control everything else i think were fucked,
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because the Taliban seem to be aggressively blocking people from getting to the airport and our options are: 1. just accept it 2. plead with the Taliban but were already doing that and its not working 3. fly in lots more troops and try to break out of the airport
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Given current conditions, it's impossible to distinguish between the Taliban intentionally blocking people from getting to the airport, and the Taliban trying to stop massive crowds from clogging up roads and swarming the airport.
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The Taliban obviously won't intentionally try to keep US citizens hostage - that's just asking for war. On the other hand they may very well try to block Afghans from emigrating to the US en masse. Especially if they actually intend to follow through on amnesty.
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seeing a lot of reports of them going door to door and shooting people
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Yeah I've seen a lot of reports of door to door searches, but not of them shooting people since taking Kabul. It's hard to be certain with a lot of reports since a lot of looters pose as Taliban to get into houses.
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