There are no plans yet to aid Americans unable to make it past the tight cordon the Taliban has placed around Hamid Karzai International Airport, the base of the expanding U.S. evacuation effort in Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s spokesman acknowledged Wednesday.
In the last 24 hours, 18 Air Force C-17 cargo jets lifted off from the airport with about 2,000 passengers, of which 325 were U.S. citizens. The remaining numbers were Afghan civilians and some NATO personnel, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday.
Joe Biden: 'I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about morality, our moral obligation…the U.S. has no obligation to evacuate 1—or 100,001' refugees from this war-torn country https://t.co/cBnUEGDuNA
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