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 situationhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/09/taliban-sweep-through-herat-province-as-afghan-advance-continues …
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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
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Every year I grow more ashamed of my country, and my other country.
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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.
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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 Englishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2yQKfblws&list=PL92t_hWZdNQuJHO-yPfvq3coIMs5v2xpF …
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World War 2 really warped the American understanding of war.
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what pisses me off are the obviously BS statements coming out of the State Department about how they are thinking about maybe setting up an evacuation to Guam or whatever. If they were serious about it they'd have already done it.
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