It's been obvious for weeks that all of Afghanistan including Kabul is going to fall now that American troops are leaving, but there continues to be no urgency about evacuating Afghans marked for death to US territory in the rapidly deteriorating situation theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
This is a replay of what happened in Vietnam in 1975. All the same pieces are there—lies about how long the government could hold out without government support, indifference to the fate of people who took our promises at face value, abhorrence at the idea of opening our borders
Even if you don't care about the moral case for letting a large number of Afghans evacuate to the US, do you think that foreigners are stupid and don't see the same pattern repeat from war to war? And then we have the audacity to complain we're not greeted as liberators anymore.
America would be immeasurably stronger with a couple hundred thousand new citizens of Afghan extraction. Every time the country took in refugees from an American war, it was to our benefit. But it would require both moral courage and quick action in the face of imminent collapse
Every year I grow more ashamed of my country, and my other country.
The message couldn't be clearer: we're too afraid to invite a bunch of Muslims who fought side by side with our armies for twenty years into our prosperous, pluralistic, multi-ethnic society of 350 million that never stops boasting about its diversity and immigrant origins.
New US motto: trillions for war, not a penny for consequences
For those interested in seeing more of the Afghanistan we're leaving behind, I can't recommend this YouTube travelogue from a pair of Polish travelers highly enough. I believe there are eight episodes so far, all subtitled in English
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