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29 Aug, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Really @PressSec?!? So many of us tried to warn @POTUS’ admin time: militarytimes.com/opinion/commen… & time: militarytimes.com/opinion/commen… & time: time.com/5955477/afghan… & time again: evacuateourallies.org No one listened. #AfghanEvac #DigitalDunkirk #Congress must investigate & legislate.
“If and when Afghanistan collapses, rapid air evacuations will be necessary. History provides a model for how the U.S. should move forward…We should do the same now for our allies in Afghanistan, while there is still time.” time.com/5955477/afghan…
“Should collapse come in Afghanistan, it will happen faster than Washington can respond…it will engender a rapid evacuation that, given Afghanistan’s unique place in the world & our geopolitical relations with its neighbors, must occur via air.” militarytimes.com/opinion/commen…
“The situation in Afghanistan is rapidly failing. An increasingly worrying body of reports makes it clear that collapse is coming & will happen faster than Washington can respond.” militarytimes.com/opinion/commen…
Here are all the formal letters sent by Congress & civil society groups pleading with @POTUS & his admin to begin the evacuation of our Afghan wartime allies months ago. #AfghanEvac #DigitalDunkirk

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29 Aug
They sure did. I’ve saved them all. Here they are (a thread)
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19 Aug
.@POTUS WHAT ABOUT OUR AFGHAN WARTIME ALLIES??? #KeepOurPromise #SaveOurAllies #TakeThemAll #AfghanEvac #EvacuateNow #DigitalDunkirk #TakeThemToo #AfghanLivesMatter #KabulAirlift #AfghanAirlift
It’s boggles my mind as to how they can possibly just now be this concerned. We’ve been warning them over and over again for seven months. Daily.
Next to completely abandoning them, this is our nightmare scenario.
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14 Aug
The Taliban are a terrorist organization who are about to overthrow the democratically elected government of Afghanistan & replacing it with an Islamic theocracy that sees no place for women outside of the home. They are evil. @POTUS should order US mil to wipe them out. (Thread)
The Taliban are in the open on the battlefield in a way they have not been since 2001. We should seize the initiative & engage them everywhere. Only the US mil / NATO can do this. We could secure the safety of Afghans & give them a chance at a better future than what’s coming.
If we truly care about defending human rights, democracies, & keeping a promise to the 88000 Afghan wartime allies who are now in peril, then now is THE put up or shut up moment. This is a Never Again moment unfolding before us. We can stop it, but only if we decisively engage.
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9 May
The morning after @JanisShenwary saved my life, I found him eating alone in our chow hall. I sat down & thanked him for saving my life - it was the first real conversation we ever had. I asked him why saved me. His answer changed my thinking on #Afghanistan forever. (thread)
He said, “you are a guest in my country, I die before you do.”

“Well, you’re a hell of a shot, I’m really glad you’re on our side. Hey, why is that, why are you on our side?”
“My mom would kick my ass if I joined the Taliban.”

It wasn’t the answer I ever expected to hear. “I don’t understand, I thought women didn’t have any power over here?”

“You know nothing of Afghans,” he said, staring into my eyes.

“You’re right. I don’t. Will you teach me?”
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8 May
7 years ago today, @JanisShenwary and I joined our friends in Congress to announce the Afghan Allies Protection Extension Act of 2014. It has been used to keep the Afghan SIV program alive ever since.
(Thread)
Little did we know at that time just how much more work we’d have to do. We’re still not there yet. Now is our most desperate hour.
We need your help. Please contact your member of Congress and President Joe Biden. Urge them to support an immediate air evacuation of our #Afghan wartime allies to #Guam. #SaveOurTerps #SaveTheSIV #SIV #SaveThem #WartimeAllies #Interpreters
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8 May
“European allies are pushing the U.S. to delay its withdrawal from Afghanistan—which U.S. officials had suggested could be complete by as early as July 4—to give NATO allies more time and support to leave, U.S. officials said…

(Thread) wsj.com/articles/europ…
In another complication, Turkey, which for years has secured the airport in Kabul, has told the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that its troops may leave as well, the officials said…
Turkey’s potential departure, after it initially had planned to stay until after the coalition withdrawal, could prompt some nations to reconsider plans to keep embassies open in the capital without an international force at Hamid Karzai International Airport, officials said.”
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