Over 130,000 refugees were settled in the United States after the Vietnam War—a completely inadequate number. Step 1 was taking them out of harm's way to Guam for processing. Even compared against earlier failures to keep our word, we're doing terribly by Afghanistan.https://twitter.com/jeremyslevin/status/1429662776482574339 …
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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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Those Afghans did not go to the airport just to be let in through the gate. The number of people on flights out of the airport is clearly the more important number if you care about their safety
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I think you're missing the point, which is that the number of people on flights lags changes on the ground by a few days.
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