A lot of people lying to themselves or others right now about the scope of our evacuation efforts, but the fact is the precipitous American withdrawal left people anywhere outside Kabul with no path out, whatever visa they hold, and those few in Kabul forced to risk their lives
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The pattern for days has been that the State Department tells priority groups to come to Kabul airport, and the Taliban won't let them through. Now the NYT reports Americans have also been turning them away.pic.twitter.com/e2UuEAcMzq
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The press this morning reports that the Taliban are now preventing any Afghans from leaving at all. Biden's reaction to this will show us whether his decision to use the Taliban as a militant wing of ICE over the past days was premeditated or accidental.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/24/world/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-news#the-taliban-block-afghans-access-to-kabuls-airport-and-reject-any-delay-of-the-us-withdrawal …
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I'm old enough to remember a time when the Taliban wasn't allowed to dictate American policy.
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The number that really matters in the Afghan evacuation is how many Afghans per day are being allowed through the airport gates, not how many people fly out on planes. There's a lot of buffering involved, but it's who gets let in to the airport that is the limiting function.
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An immediate question the press needs to ask is what Biden intends to do about Afghans who hold US citizenship or permanent residency and are prevented by the Taliban from leaving.
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Most of those we resettled came out years after the fall of Saigon. On boats.
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The whole idea of using Saigon as a baseline for comparison is fantastical
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If we keep to the current pace we'll equal that number by next week. I say "current pace" because the pace keeps accelerating.
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That's all the more impressive since Afghanistan has 10 million fewer people living in it than Vietnam did in 1975.
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