Including women in the draft seems like the kind of thing a nation being overwhelmed by foreign armies might do out of desperation, but House Democrats did just that on Thursday in the current defense appropriations bill.
Language slipped into the bill by Congresscritter Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) would require young women — presumably the traditional XX variety — to register with Selective Service.
The equipment is likely s tiny portion of the massive military cache the Biden administration abandoned in Afghanistan. It would make sense for the Taliban to sell off anything they don’t intend to use in order to fund their government without having to deal with any U.S. demands.
An Al Jazeera reporter, spoke with Taliban fighters after they entered the formerly American side of Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), and posted a video of the event to various social media networks, said that the Taliban fighters expected the U.S. to leave their equipment in full working order, though it is not clear whether the U.S. made any such promises.
Now we’re going to have to send repair parts and mechanics. Think I’m kidding? Watch. The Taliban and the USA will be ‘allies’ within a month.
“How badly do Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats want to cover up this Afghanistan debacle? They just blocked Members of Congress from reading the names of the service members who sacrificed their lives in Afghanistan last week,” posted Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) on Tuesday. “Don’t you think our military deserves better?”
The Taliban getting the weaponry was earning Joe Biden a lot of criticism — that more of it wasn’t destroyed or prevented from falling into the enemy hands.
So it’s more than a little troubling to read that the Biden administration told federal agencies to scrub their websites of the official reports about the $82.9 billion in weaponry the U.S. has provided to the Afghan army since 2001 (which is now largely in Taliban hands).
An Air Force member said there is “a lot of pressure from our commanders … and they tell you these sob stories to heavily persuade you, and it’s borderline harassment.”
The military is made up of healthy individuals, as well as their being in the age range that has almost no problems with Covid-19.
Gold Star father Mark Schmitz, whose son Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz was killed in the terror attack at the airport in Kabul last week, slammed President Joe Biden during an interview on Monday for how the president handled himself during a meeting following his son’s death.
President Joe Biden ordered a hasty, chaotic, and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, leaving hundreds of Americans stranded there on August 31. Ironically, Biden had promised — repeatedly — to leave “no one behind” there, or anywhere.
The US Marine Corps officer who was relieved of his command over a battalion for chastising his bosses over the botched Afghan withdrawal has revealed that he was ordered to undergo a mental health screening.
It’s been less than 24-hours since the United States government, led by President Joe Biden, abandoned hundreds — possibly thousands — of Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.
Over the past 48-hours, the gates to Harmid Karzai International Airport in Kabul were sealed off and Americans clamoring to get in, showing green cards and U.S. passports, were shut out for good.
An animal rights activist group released a scathing statement after finding out the Biden administration left contracted service dogs behind at the Kabul, Afghanistan airport, condemned the government for sentencing the dogs to “death.”
I am personally aware of 65 Working Dogs left behind/abandoned in one hanger on Kabul Airport. I am told by another reliable source 6O Working Dogs were in another. ALL the Warfighters involved did all they could to prevent this. The blame DOES NOT go on them.
(Team BC) pic.twitter.com/2jLhYSpuul— Boone Cutler 🗽🇺🇸 (@boonecutler) August 31, 2021
Shana Chappell, the mother of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, slammed President Joe Biden in a post on social media for the way that he acted when the two met and for how he acted during the dignified transfer of the 13 slain U.S. service members.
Some family members of the 13 fallen U.S. service members lashed out at President Joe Biden during the Sunday dignified transfer of their remains, a Tuesday report details.
Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, told The Washington Post that a sister of a fallen troop yelled at the president after receiving the remains on Sunday: ‘I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!’
‘I can’t fault her for it,’ Schmitz told the Post. ‘We all lost somebody.’
Schmitz said that he showed a picture of his son to Biden and told the president: ‘Don’t you ever forget that name. Don’t you ever forget that face. Don’t you ever forget the names of the other 12. And take some time to learn their stories.’
He recalled that Biden didn’t seem to like those comments.
A viral Instagram post highlights a text message exchange in which a U.S. military servicemember states that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is being forced to clean a military base for the Taliban in Afghanistan. The report claims that a troop evacuation flight was cancelled by Brigadier General Farrell J. Sullivan so that Marines could sweep up trash in preparation for the Taliban takeover.
The bloody and deadly carnage at five bomb blast sites outside Kabul, Afghanistan Airport is made all the worse as details emerge showing the explosives used were the ones left behind by US forces as they withdrew from parts of Afghanistan. Our troops were killed with our own explosives.
h/t Marvin
