President Joe Biden says the 바카라 게임 웹사이트�hard and painful바카라 게임 웹사이트� airlift of Americans and tens of thousands of others from Afghanistan's capital is accelerating, but he would not rule out extending it beyond the Aug. 31 deadline he set before the Taliban's swift takeover.In remarks at the White House on Sunday, one day after the Taliban completed their victory by capturing Kabul, Biden defended his decision to end the war and insisted that getting all Americans out of the country would have been difficult in the best of circumstances. Critics have blasted Biden for a grave error in judgment by waiting too long to begin organizing an evacuation, which became captive to the fear and panic set off by the government's sudden collapse.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Biden said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�It would have been true if we'd started a month ago, or a month from now. There is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Biden said military discussions are underway on potentially extending the airlift beyond Biden's Aug. 31 deadline. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Our hope is we will not have to extend, but there are discussions,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said, suggesting the possibility that the Taliban will be consulted.In a statement later Sunday, a White House official said eight U.S. military flights 바카라 게임 웹사이트� seven C-17s and one C-130 바카라 게임 웹사이트� evacuated about 1,700 passengers from Hamid Karzai International Airport in a 12-hour period ending at 3 p.m. EDT. In addition, 39 coalition aircraft took off with approximately 3,400 passengers, the official said.Since Aug. 14, the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of about 30,300 people on military and coalition flights, the official said. Tens of thousands of people remain to join the airlift, which has been slowed by security issues and U.S. bureaucracy hurdles.On Saturday, 3,900 Americans were flown out of Kabul on 23 U.S. military flights, Biden said.바카라 게임 웹사이트�We see no reason why this tempo will not be kept up,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said. The U.S. military says it has the capacity to fly 5,000 to 9,000 people out of Kabul per day.Biden asserted, without a full explanation, that U.S. forces have managed to improve access to the airport for Americans and others seeking to get on flights. He suggested that the perimeter had been extended, widening a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�safe zone.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�What I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m not going to do is talk about the tactical changes we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re making to make sure we maintain as much security as we can,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We have constantly, how can I say it, increased rational access to the airport, where more folk can get there more safely. It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s still a dangerous operation but I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t want to go into the detail of how we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re doing that.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Later Biden added: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve discussed a lot with the Taliban. They바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve been cooperative in extending some of the perimeter.바카라 게임 웹사이트�He said groups of Americans in Kabul are being moved more efficiently and safely to the airport, but he did not provide details.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Any American who wants to get home, will get home,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he asserted.Earlier Sunday, administration officials said the U.S. military is considering 바카라 게임 웹사이트�creative ways바카라 게임 웹사이트� to get Americans and others into the Kabul airport for evacuation, and the Pentagon on Sunday ordered six U.S. commercial airlines to help move evacuees from temporary sites outside of Afghanistan.Addressing a criticism cited by many Republicans, Biden said no Afghan evacuees are being flown directly to the United States from Afghanistan without prior screening. He said they are being screened in third countries.Biden and his top aides have repeatedly cited their concern that extremist groups in Afghanistan will attempt to exploit the chaos around the Kabul airport.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The threat is real, it is acute, it is persistent and something we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re focused with every tool in our arsenal," said Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.The Biden administration has given no firm estimate of the number of Americans seeking to leave Afghanistan. Some have put the total between 10,000 and 15.000. Sullivan on Sunday put it at 바카라 게임 웹사이트�several thousand.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Speaking on ABC바카라 게임 웹사이트�s 바카라 게임 웹사이트�This Week,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Austin said that as Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Aug. 31 deadline for ending the evacuation operation approaches, he will recommend whether to give it more time.Republicans in Congress stepped up their criticism of Biden's response. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�If the Taliban is saying that Americans can travel safely to the airport, then there is no better way to make sure they get safely to the airport than to use our military to escort them,바카라 게임 웹사이트� GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, an Army veteran, said on ABC's 바카라 게임 웹사이트�This Week.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Ryan Crocker, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan under Presidents George W, Bush and Barack Obama, told CBS' 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Face the Nation바카라 게임 웹사이트� that Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트�s management of the withdrawal was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�catastrophic바카라 게임 웹사이트� and had unleashed a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�global crisis.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Vice President Kamala Harris got plenty of reminders of the Afghanistan situation during her visit to Singapore. She dismissed multiple questions over what went wrong there during a press conference in Singapore after her meeting with the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트�s prime minister.Harris said that while there 바카라 게임 웹사이트�will be and should be a robust analysis of what has happened,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the current focus 바카라 게임 웹사이트�has to be on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us and vulnerable Afghans, including women and children.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�We cannot be in any way distract from what must be our primary mission right now, which is evacuating people from that region who deserve to be evacuated,바카라 게임 웹사이트� she said.Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong offered support for the U.S. decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, saying the country understands the decision and that they were 바카라 게임 웹사이트�grateful바카라 게임 웹사이트� for the U.S. efforts to combat terrorism in the region. He also announced that Singapore would offer use of its Air Force planes to help with the evacuation there.A central problem in the evacuation operation is processing evacuees once they reach other countries in the region and in Europe. Those temporary waystations, including in Qatar, Bahrain and Germany, are sometimes reaching capacity, although new sites are being made available, including in Spain.In an attempt to alleviate that, and to free up military aircraft for missions from Kabul, the Pentagon on Sunday activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. The Defense Department said 18 aircraft from American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines, Omni Air, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines will be directed to ferry evacuees from interim waystations. The airlines will not fly into Afghanistan. The six participating airlines have agreed to assist for a little less than two weeks, which roughly coincides with the currently planned duration of the airlift, which is to end Aug. 31.___Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor, Ellen Knickmeyer, Hope Yen and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.