Starting in April, the United States Embassy in Afghanistan began sending home nonessential employees as security became more untenable in Kabul.Credit...Reuters
New York Times: U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul
The demand seeks to stave off an evacuation of the embassy by dangling aid to future Afghan governments — even one that includes the Taliban.
WASHINGTON — American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group takes over the country’s government and ever wants to receive foreign aid, three American officials said.
The effort, led by Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief American envoy in talks with the Taliban, seeks to stave off a full evacuation of the embassy as they rapidly seize cities across Afghanistan.
On Thursday, the State Department announced it was sending home an unspecified number of the 1,400 Americans stationed at the embassy and drawing down to what the agency’s spokesman, Ned Price, described as a “core diplomatic presence” in Kabul.
The embassy also urged Americans who were not working for the U.S. government to immediately leave Afghanistan on commercial flights.
The Taliban’s march has put embassies in Kabul on high alert for a surge of violence in coming months, or even weeks, and forced consulates and other diplomatic missions in the country to shut down.
American diplomats are now trying to determine how soon they may need to fully evacuate the embassy should the Taliban prove to be more bent on destruction than a détente.
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WNU Editor: This plea was made before this afternoon's decision to send thousands of US troops back into Afghanistan to facilitate the mass evacuation of Americans. It looks like the talks to get Taliban assurances that the US embassy would be protected failed.
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Any volunteers to stay behind? No?
Of course they failed. The Taliban took one look at Jake Sullivan and laughed. Jake is tall and has a prominent Adam's apple, both other than those traits there is nothing to suggest it is male. Of course in a political fight in the home warren it is dangerous. Outside of the home warren it is nothing.
Vietnam 2.0
Must resign.
He leads American down a dark road, AND its friends and allies too.
This time it's different when compared to the starry-eyed kids who made the Iranian government squeal in pain and give in to the kids' iron wills and sign the jpcyxxraf...the...hmmmm. Well it starts with a "J", I just don't recall the name, anyway it's the usual meaningless sounds such as Agreement, Peace, and others the kids use to give a burnish to a mountain of confusion that is supposed to change some behavior. Only the date on the calendar and the other party has changed. Same questionable efforts by what seems to be too many over educated adults. I mean...how does a Johnny Kerry reach such a position?
I'm embarrassed that such silly people represent my country and me.
Where's that tough-as-nails military genius Gen. Milley? I'm sure that that fountain of wokeist horseshit political hack has a secret strategy just ready to pop.
Biden shuts down American oil independence, and is now begging OPEC for relief. This is the guy the rigged an election for.
Lol exactly Russin, he's busy blowing some BLM dude
Shortly there'll be footage of Taliban armoured vehicles crashing through the gates of the US Embassy & Taliban troops raising their banner on the embassy roof. Seen it done before back in the '70s. Best of luck to the boys going in. Keep ducking 🙉
I've never been more ashamed to be an American than now.
What a clown president.
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