Speaking of "hostages" ... A U.S. STUDENT was on the phone this morning describing the status of the other students and their teachers who were told to get on a bus and come to the airport WITHOUT MILITARY SUPPORT. The student said the U.S. Military gave the Taliban a list of their names with the U.S. passport information associated with their names. Hostages? No! Stranded U.S. citizens? Yes!
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged the Biden administration, with the backing of its international allies, would continue reaching out to those Americans left and help them when they decide to leave.
"If an American in Afghanistan tells us they want to stay for now, and in a week or a month or a year they reach out and say. 'I’ve changed my mind,’ we will help them leave," he said in a televised address Monday evening only hours after the last U.S. military plane took off from Kabul, officially ending the country's longest war.
Blinken said fewer than 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan and the actual number is "likely closer to 100."
The challenge is "there are long-time residents of Afghanistan who have American passports and who are trying to determine whether or not they wanted to leave," he said. "Many are dual-citizen Americans with deep roots and extended families in Afghanistan who’ve resided there for many years. For many, it’s a painful choice."
ta - Amen, good Sir
DPST Communists Lie - and they care nothing for American Citizens
The fiden cabal is a criminal enterprise - doing its' best to destroy all that is Good about America.
They Are - America LAST!!!!
And teh more Stranded Americans the Taliban hangs from our abandoned blackhawk helicopters - teh happier winken, blinken, and Nod will be!