For those missing the context which seems like the entire section right now, The US has already evacuated all families of US personnel and nonessential personnel. The only next step for the State Department is the Marines flying into Beirut in helicopters to evacuate remaining personnel.
This is when civilians are evacuated with the most efficiency and highest survival rate. It costs the US next to nothing, in it’s multi trillion dollar budget, to fly a C-130 into Beirut everyday right now for any American who cannot afford a commercial ticket or cannot secure a commercial ticket. (to be clear, this is not happening, but it could happen, and should happen.)
The reason for this is both the bombing campaign and that Netanyahu has told Biden they are going in on the ground and they’re ready to do so at any time. The fact that we have not issued an evacuation order to American citizens in Lebanon and are not providing evacuations now is straight up bullshit.
Do you mind sharing where you learned that America is sending a flight to actually evacuate Lebanese-Americans? The articles I have read saying they are sending troops there on standby but are not actually evacuating anyone in Lebanon yet.
For those missing the context which seems like the entire section right now, The US has already evacuated all families of US personnel and nonessential personnel. The only next step for the State Department is the Marines flying into Beirut in helicopters to evacuate remaining personnel.
This is when civilians are evacuated with the most efficiency and highest survival rate. It costs the US next to nothing, in it’s multi trillion dollar budget, to fly a C-130 into Beirut everyday right now for any American who cannot afford a commercial ticket or cannot secure a commercial ticket. (to be clear, this is not happening, but it could happen, and should happen.)
The reason for this is both the bombing campaign and that Netanyahu has told Biden they are going in on the ground and they’re ready to do so at any time. The fact that we have not issued an evacuation order to American citizens in Lebanon and are not providing evacuations now is straight up bullshit.
edited for clarity
Do you mind sharing where you learned that America is sending a flight to actually evacuate Lebanese-Americans? The articles I have read saying they are sending troops there on standby but are not actually evacuating anyone in Lebanon yet.
I should have been more clear, I was pointing that out as a possible course of action to avoid trying to evacuate people under fire.