Our Afghan partners—the heroes who risked their lives not just for their country but for ours—will be killed along with their families if we leave them behind. Getting them to safety is a moral imperative.
When service members ask local partners to risk their lives and help us, we make them a promise: we will have your back. For 20 years in Afghanistan we have given them America’s promise. We must keep it.
President Biden inherited a terrible withdrawal plan from President Trump, and I’m glad he’s given his word that we will evacuate our partners. If we fail, the Taliban will execute them.
This is not just about Afghanistan, it’s about the safety of future Americans in combat. Our potential future partners will look at Afghanistan to see if they can trust our word.
Here’s what we need:
1. One person who is in charge of coordinating this effort,
2. A plan to evacuate our partners to a safe place so we can process their visas, like the one we’ve created at evacuateourallies.org,
3. And the order to go.
1. One person who is in charge of coordinating this effort,
2. A plan to evacuate our partners to a safe place so we can process their visas, like the one we’ve created at evacuateourallies.org,
3. And the order to go.
America does not leave heroes behind. It’s long past time to start evacuating our Afghan allies.
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