The "fake middle ground" position here is that instead of saying it was illegal, Biden could have let SIV applications come be processed in the US before August, that we didn't need to make visiting a single medical clinic in Kabul a bureaucratic prerequisite for visa applicants https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1429474045238693889 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
If you're advocating we stay in Afghanistan until we have a smooth and efficient SIV process then you're advocating we stay in Afghanistan forever.
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Replying to @trizzlor
The entire time I've been advocating moving the inefficient and broken current process to US territory, the policy that's being pursued now.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Do you really think this would not be reported as a "Biden's stain" if refugees were processed in Guam instead of in Qatar?
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Replying to @trizzlor
I could give zero fucks about how it would be reported.
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Replying to @Pinboard
You're welcome to nitpick logistical decisions but that's not the conversation going on in the tweet you quoted, which is about the general perception that the withdrawal has been a disaster in and of itself
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Replying to @trizzlor
This is not logistical nitpicking but a basic policy decision about whether or not to evacuate Afghan allies.
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Replying to @Pinboard
The policy choice of processing in Qatar vs Guam will have a negligible impact on the overall refugee numbers
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Replying to @trizzlor
Any policy choice made in August will have negligible impact. This is about policy choices made this spring.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Do you mean the various SIV process bills that Congress didn't vote on until the end of July?
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No, I mean the administrative decision to make people wait until the SIV visa was granted before flying them out, instead of completing the process outside Afghanistan. That is unrelated to legislation.
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Replying to @Pinboard
How many SIVs wanted to be processed outside of Afghanistan in the spring and what impact would the sudden loss of critical personnel have been on the Afghan government?
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Afghan army had a critical need for the translators who had been working with our troops who are no longer there???
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