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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so i am imagining we could do (3) but the problem is then we're actively at war with the Taliban and even if they lose every engagement they can just start killing lots of people we want to evacuate anyway, people who are in territory they control
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Or we can make massive concessions to the Taliban, including full recognition etc.
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The Air Force is already going back to Bagram. Whatever our plan is I’m sure it would revolve around that, but how we’ll get people out of Kabul I don’t know.
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Is that confirmed? Didn't they say that they weren't going to comment on that possibility?
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as of early afternoon yeah
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