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 …
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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I wouldn't be surprised if there's political hesitancy at all. I just think people are really discounting the absolutely incredible logistical challenges involved in this. Just my 2c.
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I agree that the logistical challenge is massive, and it's easy to be an armchair flight planner. But it's exactly the kind of thing the military is good at.
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