Team Biden: Let's Not Call the Taliban's Quasi-Hostages in Afghanistan 'Hostages,' Okay?
Guy Benson
Posted: Sep 08, 2021 10:05 AM
President Biden's secretary of state says he doesn't see a hostage situation in Mazar-i-Sharif, where planeloads of Americans and various friendlies eager to leave Afghanistan are apparently being denied clearance for takeoff. The Biden administration simply cannot afford the debacle of US hostages being held by the Taliban, given the disaster over which they've already presided – including the shattered promise of getting all Americans and allies out of the country. Team Biden went from scolding reporters about using the word "stranded," to arguing that Americans get stranded all the time, virtually overnight. Remember, the president pledged on national television just a few short weeks ago that he'd keep troops on the ground until all Americans were out. Then he pulled the last US troops out, ahead of schedule, with thousands of US citizens and permanent residents still stuck (read: stranded) on the ground – to say nothing of the tens of thousands of allies to whom he'd made the same vow. That shocking betrayal, borne of horrific incompetence, is bad enough, especially with bloody reprisals well underway:
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