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The Biden administration is claiming that they have âno resourcesâ to rescue trapped Americans and flights in Afghanistan.
The U.S. State Department claimed that it has few resources available to facilitate the evacuation and that they have no âreliableâ information about the trapped flights.
âIndividuals associated with an organization handling the flights that the State Department is the only obstacle to the chartered planes leaving the airport, but sources close to the situation told the Daily Wire Sunday that while the State Department is not negotiating landing zones, the Taliban is also making significant demands, effectively creating a âhostage situationâ on the ground in Afghanistan,â the Daily Wire reported.
A State Department official reportedly said their hands are tied and that they do not have any resources on the ground to get trapped American home.
âWe do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspaceâwhether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region,â the official told the Free Beacon. âWe understand the concern that many people are feeling as they try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of Afghanistan.â
A spokesman added, âGiven these constraints, we also do not have a reliable means to confirm the basic details of charter flights, including who may be organizing them, the number of U.S. citizens and other priority groups on-board, the accuracy of the rest of the manifest, and where they plan to land, among many other issues.â
The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Sunday that the Taliban were holding Americans âhostageâ by preventing them from leaving aboard a half-dozen planes that are ready for departure because they âwant somethingâ in return.
âWe have six airplanes at Mazar Sharif Airport, six airplanes with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now,â Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said during an interview with âFox News Sundayâ host Chris Wallace.
âState has cleared these flights, and the Taliban will not let them leave the airport,â he continued, referring to the State Department.
Wallace continued to press the Texas Republican, which led McCaul to declare that the development is âturning into a hostage situation.â
âWell, they are not clearing airplanes to depart. Theyâve sat at the airport for the last couple days, these planes, and theyâre not allowed to leave,â McCaul said. âWe know the reason why is because the Taliban want something in exchange.â
âThis is really, Chris, turning into a hostage situation where theyâre not gonna allow American citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the United States of America,â McCaul added.
The ranking Foreign Affairs Committee member is not the first Republican to broach the subject.
âTheyâve already been manifested on flights,â he told âGreg Kelly Reportsâ before adding that the Taliban leadership wants something in return for allowing the Americans and their Afghani allies to leave, such as cash or recognition as the countryâs legitimate government, which would be a major public relations feat.
âThe airplanes are there. Everything is ready to go. They canât get out, and the reason they canât get out is because the Taliban wonât release the flight until Sept. 9 because they want to be recognized as an official government,â Jackson said.
âThey want to be officially recognized as a legitimate government,â he continued.
âAnd I guarantee you these hostages, theyâre hostages right now, are being held until the American, until the United States, until the Biden administration recognizes the Taliban as a government,â Jackson noted further.
A poll found that one-fifth of likely voters, and roughly one-fifth of Democrats, said they regretted their vote for President Joe Biden in 2020.
The poll from Zogby Analytics of 2020 Biden voters found that 20% of likely voters said they regretted their choice, compared to 76% who did not. Among Democrats, the number was 21%, compared to 29% of Republicans who crossed the aisle to vote for Biden and regret it.
The poll, published Monday, surveyed 2,173 Biden voters online between Aug. 5 and Aug. 13, with a margin of error of 2.1%.
Bidenâs support waned more among younger demographics than the elderly; 27% of his voters aged 18-29 and 30% aged 30-49 said they regretted their decision, but only 10% of those aged 50-64 and 6% of the elderly said the same.
Men were twice as likely to regret their vote than women (27% vs. 13%), and Hispanics were the most likely ethnic group to regret their choice at 33%. Black Americans followed at 25%, while 16% of white Biden voters felt regret.
The poll was conducted prior to the completion of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in hundreds of Americans being left behind under Taliban control. The withdrawal has corresponded with a sharp drop in Bidenâs approval rating.
Some of the military bases the U.S. are leaving behind in Afghanistan are filled with toxic chemicals that can pose serious health and environmental problems. What is worse: these toxic sites may never get a full cleanup.
âThe U.S. has operated some of these facilities for almost 20 years. As part of the sitesâ routine functioning, the American military and its allied partners generated waste, including substances that increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. These materials can produce long-lasting environmental hazards in and around such sites as they seep into the ground, remain exposed in uncovered landfills andâwhen some items are incineratedâdrift into the air as smoke particlesâŠFor example, open-air burn pits are often used to dispose of waste in the field. They are common across areas where the U.S. has fought, despite the fact that an official Department of Defense policy prohibits them âexcept in circumstances inâŠ
The residents of a gated community in Argentina are struggling to get along with some unruly new neighbours: hundreds of the worldâs largest rodents. Local residents have reported that the robust rodents, which can reach over 4 feet (1.2 meters) long and weigh up to 174 pounds (79 kilograms), have been pooping in gardens, destroying flower beds, causing traffic accidents and allegedly biting pet dogs.
Environmentalists say the capybaras are not invading the area but rather taking back their natural home from the multimillion-dollar development, which, in the late 1990s, was built on top of ecologically important wetlands surrounding the banks of the ParanĂĄ River, the second-largest river in South America, which was their home.
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