Here are the latest dispatches from Afghanistan, where we’re continually assured that only about 100 Americans are still waiting to get out and that we’ll be able to work with the new, more moderate Taliban.

After weeks of the Taliban holding up flights of evacuees, one plane was finally allowed to take off.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/09/17/finally-action-on-taliban-hostage-situation-with-americans-in-mazar-i-sharif-n444641

As for the others, in spite of the Taliban’s claims that it will be more moderate and cooperative, Biden spokesman Ned Price said they’ve “pulled every lever available” but the Taliban are still holding up the flights. Which sounds an awful lot like a hostage situation. Really, Joe? Have you REALLY pulled every lever available?

Here’s a heartbreaking story about an American citizen who lost 18 of her family members in the Kabul suicide bombing and is stuck there and terrified. She broke down while telling a TV reporter how the State Department is ignoring her pleas for help and saying, “Sorry, we can’t do anything for you.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/terrified-american-trapped-afghanistan-breaks-live-tv-pins-biden-administration/

While it’s getting harder to get reliable news out of Afghanistan, here’s a report that the Taliban are methodically tracking down Afghans who helped the US (and whom Biden promised to evacuate, then didn’t.) It includes a report of women being watched constantly and terrified to go to school or work, and Taliban militants decapitating two boys, ages nine and ten.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2021/09/17/reports-taliban-decapitates-children-hunting-down-us-collaborators-n2596061?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1

And this is why the Biden-supporting media want to talk about nothing but vaccine mandates.