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Biden Ramps Up Evacuation Efforts
Hope for American citizens and allies trapped in Afghanistan grows as the Pentagon taps commercial airliners to provide support.
It is hard to know what to make of all the terrible news pouring out of Afghanistan, hour by hour.
The situation is fraught; constantly changing. The Taliban have taken over the country, yes; Taliban forces have indeed laid claim to the seat of government in Kabul and they control the Kabul airport.
So far, the Taliban has mostly been cooperating with world leaders anxious to evacuate their citizens and Afghan allies out of Kabul- on paper. On the ground reporting tells a much different story.
Whether this is because Taliban leadership is intentionally not keeping its commitments or because Taliban leadership doesn’t have a firm hold on its soldiers, it doesn’t really matter. The result- mass violence, executions, reported casualties, Americans and Afghans turned away from the airports, their passports confiscated at Taliban checkpoints, beatings- is the same either way.
According to reliable sources on the ground, and indeed recent events have borne this out, the Taliban have been putting this plan into place for well over a year. In addition to strategic military moves and staging, these preparations have also coincided with a staggering number of…