I’ll try to pass the message to the many trapped in Kabul and other provinces, burning their documents in hiding, sending harrowing, despairing and unanswered appeals for help. (I guess we can assume the already-executed would have apologized for the unnecessary stress on us?)
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Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias
I understand this is obviously emotionally heavy for you, but I know you have no problem reasoning dispassionately about other issues (Covid being just the latest). These kinds of shaming responses are just meant to shut people up.
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A prerequisite to speaking on the subject should be acknowledgment that the people of Afghanistan who aren’t Western citizens but are now at grave risk because of cooperating with us are human beings that should count when we say “everyone will get out” maybe.
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I don't think Matt is saying they don't. It's undeniably true that it's already too late to save 100%. That was true months and even years ago, as the Taliban resurged But saving 100% is not the standard that will be applied when judging the withdrawal. That's just the truth.
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Have too many already been lost? Yes. Was a better plan on the table? Maybe? If American citizens and a hundred thousand refugees get out in the next month, will people still consider it the failure they do today? I don't know. I think that was Matt's point.
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Calling that "everyone" is too glib, for sure.
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Okay. Let people mourn these lives without getting gaslit about their existence because of domestic spats. That’s not too much to ask.
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