The limiting factor in evacuating Afghans right now is our refusal to fly them to US territory and finish the paperwork there. This capricious administrative decision is costing lives and has no justification beyond American xenophobia.https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1428715951185334280 …
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Here's the State Department making the preposterous claim that the US military, which occupied the country a month ago, can't leave the airport. The reality is the US is depending on the Taliban to restrict access to the airport to minimize the number of refugees on our hands.pic.twitter.com/VAjTnE4QUF
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American official policy has long been that we can put 5,000 soldiers on the ground in any part of the world within 24 hours. Now we've added to it the caveat that they're incapable of performing any mission beyond securing an undefended airport.
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The complete political panic over accepting refugees means we have to rely on imprudent excuses like "our military is too weak", and are missing an opportunity to demonstrate American values instead of just preaching them. What a wasted opportunity and display of moral cowardice.
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Even if you think Afghan lives are worth nothing, there are endless GAME THEORY reasons to keep our commitments to people who helped our occupation forces at great personal risk. Looking weak, confused, and scared of our own closest allies hurts American national security.
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Just to say it clearly again, the US is telling Afghans eligible for evacuation to come to the airport, while at the same time relying on the Taliban cordon around the airport to make that impossible.https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1428771006332743686 …
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Isn't it also an issue that the East Coast-Kabul flight time is like 5x as long as the flight time from Kabul to Doha/Kuwait? Any aircraft that commits to flying from Kabul to the US is going to be off the table for over 24 hours. Seems worth mentioning...
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You can stage from regional facilities like Doha, there's no need to fly people out direct. It's also ridiculous to claim that it's safer to leave them waiting outside without shelter at Kabul airport than it would be to make them do the same at a US-controlled air base.
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