Like I say mate, regardless if they are helping the Americans, I still wouldn't trust them. Personally if it was me, I doubt i'd even be trying to get out via the airport, if I wasn't already in Kabul, I'd take my chances and head for the border. Google maps says I can do it in 12 hours
Teacher. " Can anyone tell me where Afghanistan is"? "Yes miss, he's playing outside with Chinese Dave"
12 hours through Taliban-controlled territory, a group you already don't trust, where you'll stick out like bollocks on a bulldog and where there are fewer cameras and media scrutiny in the countryside... Yeah, much safer than trying to get to Kabul Airport
Just make it to the sea. Why does nobody ever suggest that? Always the airport, the border, the mountains... never the sea. There's fcking loads of it down south ffs!
Just had a look at that border with Pakistan. Bloody hell that is fcking HUGE! No point heading that way anyway bcos ISIS will be patrolling all along there. You got to head north to Tajikistan really. In all seriousness, it's hopeless. No wonder everyone wants out on an airplane. They know there's no fcking way they're leaving any other way tbh.
Some people did make the Pakistan border, no idea of any numbers. I know reporters weren't allowed to film there when I last saw it. When I say not allowed to film there, I mean as in the people crossing it.
There is no "seeing it through" though. If there were, 20 years would have been enough. Unless the solution is to never leave Afghanistan and stay there forever. There is a common fallacy is business where if a company spends money on a project that doesn't work they feel obligated to keep spending money on it so that they feel less like the money was wasted. In this case, instead of money it's lives. We've already lost 2,500 people over there.. it's not working, so for twenty years the solution has been "let's throw more soldiers over there to lose lives to make it seem like the others weren't lost in vain". Well, he wasn't the one who set the withdrawal date,. The decision was made before he moved in. He could have cancelled the order, or could have delayed it. I don't think this was about gaining popularity. It certainly could have gone a lot smoother though. I just hope we can stay out of other countries for a while now.
Not seen an American version. Granted I don't watch TV a lot. I know at one point Fox wanted to make a remake but as far as I know it never got past a pilot.
Problem is, are you safe when you cross the border? Lots of Taliban strongholds and sympathizers in that part of Pakistan. Pakistani supporters are why the Taliban managed to remain alive during the occupation of Afghanistan.
Predictable really. The whole concept doesn't really translate well to America. What amuses me was how bad the American version of coupling was. They followed the original script almost word for word and scene for scene and it was still just bad.
