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IT BEGINS: Taliban Blocking Westerners From Airport as Biden Admin Pats Themselves on the Back for Afghanistan “Success”

The Taliban is now blocking westerners from reaching the Kabul airport as the August 31 deadline inches closer. With thousands of Americans and American allies still stuck in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is patting themselves on the back for their “success” in the region.

According to a new report, the Taliban is expanding their blockade at the airport despite ensuring that foreigners would be allowed to get to the airport for evacuation flights.

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Check out what the Daily Wire reported:

Private flights, being organized to bypass the Biden administration’s pullout, are also facing “growing obstacles,” according to the the Wall Street Journal, and chartered planes, designed to rescue Americans and their allies trapped in Kabul are “flying out of Kabul with hundreds of empty seats.”

On Tuesday, the Taliban “issued an edict saying only foreigners will be able to access the airport for evacuation,” the Daily Mail reported. “A spokesperson for the group ordered locals to return home. Roads in the city have been blocked in a bid to stop Afghans from leaving.”

Those blockades, the Mail noted, based on a Politico report, are catching not just Afghans “but American citizens,” and halting evacuation efforts. Groups coordinating evacuations have found themselves needing to redirect people “on the fly.”

“New Taliban checkpoints on the road to Pakistan have made driving out of the country increasingly risky,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “Confusing bureaucratic hurdles have prevented countless people from leaving Afghanistan.”

The Washington Post’s editorial board reported on Wednesday that “there may be only three or four days left for the gigantic airlift currently underway, because time must be left to fly out U.S. and other troops securing the airport themselves. Indeed, some troops have started leaving already.”

“Meanwhile,” the Post explains, “the Taliban set up a new blockade of the airport road in Kabul to prevent more Afghans from leaving.”

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“If Mr. Biden opposes that, he did not say so in his speech,” the Washington Post editorial board said. “Mr. Biden, in short, has accepted a series of conditions that seems to make it much more difficult to keep the promises of evacuation he has made or strongly implied.”

“It’s a combination of tragic, surreal and apocalyptic,” the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution Program said to the Wall Street Journal. “It’s so frustrating to get high-risk people up to the gate and have them risking their lives to go there and you still can’t get them through. It’s a disaster in slow- and fast-motion.”

Despite all these obstacles and threats against Americans and American allies, White House press secretary Jen Psaki is saying that the Afghanistan situation is a whopping success because the Biden Administration was able to get some Americans and some allies out of the region, as she completely ignored the fact that thousands of Americans and allies are trapped in Afghanistan.

“I would say that this is now on track to be the largest airlift in U.S. history,” Psaki said. “And that is bringing American citizens out. It is bringing our Afghan partners out. It is bringing allies out. So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.”

h/t: TrendingPolitics

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