SHOCKING: Taliban not cooperating to release trapped Americans at Mazar-i-Sharif airport

Who could have possible predicted the Taliban would not cooperate with "Big Satan" and the alleged Biden administration's State Department and refuse to help us in the evacuation of people still stranded in Afghanistan? 

C'mon, man. You're the Taliban; a religious group of guys who only did what they felt they had to do in the name of their religion.

The Biden crew has been rather closed-mouthed about what they're trying to do to get Americans and Afghan allies the hell out of Afghanistan after Joe Biden [his Indian name is "Droner of the Unknown"] gave us his self-imposed timeline in the middle of the Taliban's fighting season. It caused a crazy clusterfrack that stranded thousands of people behind enemy lines.

Two Qatar airlines flights left Kabul, Afghanistan late last week, but the Biden administration and others were mum over whether the Americans on those flights included a number of individuals who had previously been trapped, awaiting an airlift from a non-governmental organization at Mazar-i-Sharif airport. 

The silence portends to anything but hope.

The incompetently-led State Department's spokesman Ned Price told reporters Wednesday that the Biden administration has "pulled every lever available" but the Taliban refuses to go along with the program because, hey, they don't have to, which comes as no surprise to the sentient, but not so much to Joe Biden [whose alternate Indian name is "Chief Sniffing Hair"]. They also admitted that they did nothing to help in the evacuation of these people and the Taliban refuses to allow flights to leave.

‘I wanted to ask if there have been any movement on the flights out of Mazar. A week ago the Secretary said, quote, ‘Those flights need to move,'” one actual reporter asked price. “And also the Secretary had said State would be coordinating with veterans groups who are doing their own evacuation and extraction efforts. Has that been formalized? And if so, what does that look like now?”

Price tried to blow smoke into the nether regions of the press, stating that “veterans groups have played an important and welcome role in this, but other advocacy groups, humanitarian groups, lawmakers, NGOs, private companies, media organizations, a constellation of actors have come to the support of the people of Afghanistan.” He was eventually forced to admit Americans are still on the ground because his boss, Antony Blinken, is as competent in his job as Brian Stelter is at his weight loss diet.

“I am not aware that any international flights, charter flights or otherwise, have left Mazar-e-Sharif. Of course, we have had a couple charter flights from Kabul International Airport that departed last week, including with U.S. citizens onboard,” he said. They also have gum, which has as much to do with the stranded folks as his words have.

“I know that the Turks and the Qataris, and if you listen to what the Taliban are saying publicly, the Taliban as well want to see not only charter flights, but normal commercial activity resumed at Kabul International Airport on an expedited basis,” Price added, showing his trust in them. “And it’s our hope that that will be able to happen in the not-too-distant future so that in addition to the charter flights that our Qatari partners have very generously administered to date, there will be additional options for individuals to leave from Kabul International Airport. So we will continue to work on this, just as we continue to work on these overland routes as well.”

Price quickly tried to change the subject to North Korea, but the reporter didn't take the bait.

“Sorry, what is the problem in Mazar? What’s the hold-up? Is it the same issue? I mean, we talked about documentation; you guys said that it wasn’t an acceptable reason, given the circumstances, to hold the flights. And then just nothing?” the reporter pushed.

“We have been very clear that the individuals who have expressed a desire and a willingness to leave via Mazar-e-Sharif should be allowed to leave the country. There – the fact that to my knowledge a charter flight has not departed Mazar has nothing to do with anything that the State Department has or has not done, and in fact, quite the contrary,” Price admitted.

So they have been "very clear" about the "shoulds." That should scare the crap out of them. What are they waiting for?

“The State Department, as we have said, has pulled every lever available to us,” good ole Ned said. “We have gone to extraordinary lengths with not only our engagement with the Taliban, but also with these other constellation of groups on the ground and operating from afar, and also with countries in the region. And to our minds, these flights, these individuals, there is no reason they should not be able to depart. And that’s what we’re continuing to focus on.”

Words without action, without results, are just noise.

“I said we’ve used every lever we’ve had in the narrow and specific issue of charter flights leaving from the Mazar-e-Sharif airport in northern Afghanistan,” Price added later. “The question of holding the Taliban accountable is a much broader question, it’s a much more strategic question. And we’ve talked about this before.”

And how will this government, led by a man with obvious signs of senile dementia, hold the terrorists accountable? 

But here's the clincher: a source close to the Americans and Afghan allies on the ground in Mazar-i-Sharif said the "State Department has indicated to groups that they are on their own to negotiate." They added that only 21 Americans, of the perhaps hundreds stuck in Afghanistan, were on the flights that left Kabul.

The Americans and our Afghan friends for latter flights are still stuck on the ground and the Taliban is flipping us the bird.

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