Kabul Airport Explosion

[roadman]

explosion at kabul airport i hope the civilians are ok and that they get extracted this is just awful i cant imagine how scary it would be to be at an airport with bombs going off i am a nervous flyer as it is

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/italian-military-plane-kabul-airport-afghanistan-taliban-b952490.html

[jno]

as Hopkirk says, Biden's just trying to mop up the mess left by predecessors. (The mess wasn't invading Afghanistan, it was invading Iraq.)

[naomi24]

Biden hasn't mopped up anything. He's left the mop in the bucket - and the mess to soak into the floor.

[Peter Pedant]

He (Biden) has minimised american losses

[cant do the flopsy-mopsy metaphor]
the trillion bucks spent is a 'sunk loss' - you cant get it back.

The Beeb have had a string of experts, some so crazy they would fit in on AB - McMaster, who was keen to go back in and kick arriss.

[Khandro]

In this morning's Telegraph:

'Retired General David Petraeus, who knows a lot more about Afghanistan than Mr Biden, and many others, told him to leave 2,500 troops in the country.

But no, the president didn't listen to any of them.

For political reasons, Mr Biden was determined to have everyone out before the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Throughout this chaotic operation, and despite dissent from allies, he seemed to have an unshakable belief that he was right. As one national security official told me, Mr Biden believed it was "my way or the highway".

For nearly 50 years he has been wrong on a host of foreign policy issues. Now, we have a deadly new chapter in that long litany of failure.

Mr Biden clasped his hands and bowed his head as if in prayer. It seemed an age before he raised it again. Eventually he admitted, yes he was responsible. But a moment later, he blamed Donald Trump.'

Unbelievable !!!

[emmie]

i watched the news, and amongst the dead are 12 American soldiers, their families must be devastated. Just before getting out of this hell hole, they are killed, i know that was always a possibility but one can't help but feel incredibly sad today for all the casualties.

[naomi24]

//Mr Biden clasped his hands and bowed his head as if in prayer. It seemed an age before he raised it again. //

He'd probably dozed off!

[Deskdiary]

I didn't think it was possible, but Biden is making Trump look the more competent of the two.

I heard on the radio last week that Biden dodged the Vietnam draft 5 times, so he clearly doesn't have the stomach for a fight.

[dannyk13]

Mighty Joe has vowed revenge.Should be interesting to see how he does that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931249/We-make-pay-Biden-vows-hunt-ISIS-K-double-suicide-bomb-attack.html?ito=push-notification&ci=TcQRdhw535&si=34683987&;xi=f23152f1-a0d6-42f4-bfb9-ec4db9971c02&ai=9931249

[naomi24]

//Gen. McKenzie said the US would go after ISIS to retaliate if they can find the right groups. The threat of a suicide-born vehicle threat is 'very high.'

He also said the US was working to determine how the suicide bomber got through, and that it may have been down to Taliban incompetence.

He said there was no evidence the Taliban helped facilitate the attack. //

Taliban ‘incompetence’? Is he joking or does he really trust the Taliban to behave honourably?

//H.R McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, said Thursday's attack was 'just the beginning.'

'We are going to see horrible image after horrible image. //

At least someone has his eye on the ball!

[Peter Pedant]

// Mr Biden clasped ........raised it again.//

out doing each other in public prayer - I cant remember when a politician last prayed in public here. America it is every day - god bless america - and godit is meant to be a secular country

Idea of the the US being the new chosen country

I dont think even Gladstone prayed in public
He DID address Queen Victoria as tho she were a public meeting !
Can you imagine bonker boris saying - "and I pray god that he bring back our nationals from the wild jungle ferment and or desert they have intentionally put themselves in " - a sort of deserta infelix (*) as one might say
no I cant
Carrie do you want another quick one? yes I can ( imagine - too old to do anything else).

Lloyd George 1920 held up a paper note and shouted in the Commons - "I know my redeemer liveth!" to upright Angligan disbelief and uproar

er I am on AB I am on AB - the redemption was not our crucified and holy Lord but the reconversion according to the Gold Standard of paper £1 to a sovereign gold pound. sozza

(*) yeah the Latin ( forrin, I am on AB I am on AB) bit I can

[Peter Pedant]

// Taliban ‘incompetence’? Is he joking or does he really trust the Taliban to behave honourably?//

whilst we erupt - expostulating, incredulously,
can we remember it was everyone's faourite, Mr Donald Trump who negoiated the withdrawal - and negotiating always even for Trump involves an element of trust

but hey ho this is AB on a Friday

[Peter Pedant]

// I didn't think it was possible, but Biden is making Trump look the more competent of the two.//

yeah BA for DD !

yeah foo! - even half of AB cd run the White House better !

[DTCwordfan]

I just hope they have no working bazookas or anti-aircraft missiles....those planes are incredibly vulnerable when taking off.

[naomi24]

//can we remember it was everyone's faourite, Mr Donald Trump who negoiated the withdrawal//

You sound like the incompetent dingbat that is Biden, PP. He’s blaming Trump too, and like you, deliberately ignoring the fact that this disastrous method of departure wasn’t Trump’s idea … it was his.

Still as you say, this is AB on a Friday.

[naomi24]

//Gen. McKenzie said the US would go after ISIS to retaliate if they can find the right groups. //

I wonder what they'll do if they find the wrong groups of terrorists? Say, 'sorry for the intrusion, it's not you we're looking for' - and go on their merry way? Just a thought.