Dayton3
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The Biden Admin. has been making a big deal about the "success" of the U.S. in airlifting people from Afghanistan?
Why are we conducting an airlift anyway? Why not a huge road convoy? It is how the Russians pulled out? Sure, we don't have a land border with Afghanistan, but Pakistan does. And they are supposed to be allies of us.
You could put far more people in convoys that you can aboard the largest transport aircraft.
Of course the answer is obvious. Convoys would probably be attacked on the move by the Taliban and/or their sympathizers. And above all the Biden Admin. wants to avoid having to engage enemies on the way out.
Why are we conducting an airlift anyway? Why not a huge road convoy? It is how the Russians pulled out? Sure, we don't have a land border with Afghanistan, but Pakistan does. And they are supposed to be allies of us.
You could put far more people in convoys that you can aboard the largest transport aircraft.
Of course the answer is obvious. Convoys would probably be attacked on the move by the Taliban and/or their sympathizers. And above all the Biden Admin. wants to avoid having to engage enemies on the way out.