"[T[here is no plan to evacuate Americans who are outside Kabul..."

Citizens of a once-great nation, take note:

In media briefings, the State Department has declined to divulge its estimates of Americans in Afghanistan.

According to the aides, the administration officials — from the State and Defense departments, as well as the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff — also told the assembled Senate staffers that there is no plan to evacuate Americans who are outside Kabul, as they do not have a way of getting through the Taliban checkpoints outside the Afghan capital.

Officials did not specify how many Americans are outside Kabul, the aides said. The briefing, which was held Tuesday morning and attended by aides representing a wide swath of Senate offices, lasted half an hour.

Numberless hostages to a triumphant and gloating theocratic regime.

Since there's no copyright on historical events, there's nothing to stop Clio from gleefully ripping off the past. And so she has here.

" Sorry--it was just too tempting."