Not a single plane has left Kabul in 8 hours

They aren’t denying evacuation flights.

They are full

Germany has now said to fly there.

Just waiting for the U.K. to offer.

My source for Qatar denying evacuation flights landing is CNN

Thank you for yet another disaster Donald Trump!!!

Trump (who has never had the first idea about how to do a deal) met with the Taliban, but not with the Afghan government or any NATO allies and made umpteen concessions early last year.

Obviously President Biden did not need to follow the path Trump set down when he made so many concessions to the Taliban, he was able to take a different path but did not chose to do so.

Biden has now gone down in my estimation and I think I am not alone in that.

That’s just what they need Varian a good talking to.
And if they don’t listen: what do you suggest we threaten them with, sanctions. That should work, not!!!
They’re in bed with the Chinese. I don’t think they’re going to go without anything, do you?

It isn't new re Russia or China

Called to account? By whom? China and Russia are cosying up to them, the leader of the free world is mentally incapacitated the rest of us are too weak to utter a squeak, so why on earth would they care or take any notice of what we in the West think? We shall have to go cap in hand to them and their new friends for all the lithium and so on we shall be needing for our greener (?!) world so on the back foot yet again.

And now Qatar has stopped all evacuation flights from landing so another hub airport needs to be found.

Apparently there are 15.000 American civilians still left in Kabul + 85.000 vulnerable Afghans, all these people are now hostages to fortune courtesy of the Taliban . Any bombing of military equipment will probably mean death for these poor souls, so that's that idea out of the window. American policy is very difficult to understand and that's a fact, no wonder NATO is wringing its hands!

The international community needs to call out the Taliban whose spokesmen say one thing while their fanatical foot-soldiers do another.

The main difference between the Taliban of today and the monsters of twenty years ago is that today's Taliban have much better PR advice.

The next time there is a carefully orchestrated public information event, serious questions must be asked and the Taliban leaders should be called to account.

MerylStreep

GrannyGravy
I’ve just read the interview with the Norwegian wife of the Royal Marine.
She said the plane waited for 4 hrs but people couldn’t get through.

Yes it’s tragic.

Whitewavemark2

New born babies, elderly folk, tiny children in boiling hot sun with no lavatory, water food etc. People are going to die, just waiting.

It is truly dreadful.

I agree a truly horrific situation, made worse by Covid. I can’t help wonder how it must be spreading amongst people who already have a nightmare to contend with. So sad.

GrannyGravy
I’ve just read the interview with the Norwegian wife of the Royal Marine.
She said the plane waited for 4 hrs but people couldn’t get through.

Welshwife

I saw something earlier about the Taliban stopping something but I was doing something else so didn’t give it 100% attention - maybe that was it.

CNN are reporting that the Taliban are now blocking all access to the airport.

I’ll leave this to stand although it did eventually show up on another thread.

This site really is crappy.

New born babies, elderly folk, tiny children in boiling hot sun with no lavatory, water food etc. People are going to die, just waiting.

It is truly dreadful.

I saw something earlier about the Taliban stopping something but I was doing something else so didn’t give it 100% attention - maybe that was it.