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Our Secretary of State confirmed yesterday what we all knew, the Afghanistan Withdrawal problems were all that idiot Trump's fault.

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FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
It was the fault of the military for not convincing the president to get everyone our first.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@FreeSpirit1 Like everyone else, the military expected the ANA to last while we were still there.

And there are simply limits to this sort of thing. We told Americans to gtfo out of Afghanistan in April. We’ve been running evacuation flight since July. It was clear Kabul was falling since early-mid August. We airlifted 10k+ people every day towards the end of it, getting 120k people out altogether.

It feels like no matter when we actually left, there would be some American dumbasses standing cap in hand and whining that the military didn’t wait for them in particular. Could be September, October, or 2031, someone would still be “left behind”.
@QuixoticSoul If these right wingers are so convinced the military should force everyone out they should push for a bill that allows the US military to abduct US citizens from foreign lands at a whim.
Northwest · M
@FreeSpirit1 [quote]It was the fault of the military for not convincing the president to get everyone our first.[/quote]

I'm sure you realize the State Department has been urgng everyone, since April, to get the fuck out. Nearly 130,000 people were evacuated prior to the military withdrawal.
Northwest · M
@QuixoticSoul [quote]It feels like no matter when we actually left, there would be some American dumbasses standing cap in hand and whining that the military didn’t wait for them in particular. Could be September, October, or 2031, someone would still be “left behind”.[/quote]

It's worse than that.

For days, we heard nothing from the likes of Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw about the US citizens held hostage by the Taliban at the Maxar-Al-Sharif airport, even though they had secured a flight.

The story behind the story is more interesting.

Turns out this is about one naturalized US citizen, and one Afghan with a permanent residency in the US. They both headed back to the Afghanistan to claim their families. One of them arriving on the day of the suicide bombing.

These guys are former interpreters. The Taliban had their names, supplied buy the US military, along with the names of their new spouses, to insure they're let through. But, they were not alone. They brought theirs and their new wives' extended family (parents in law, cousins, acquaintances, etc).

The Marine guards refused to let them all through, so they made their way to Mazar-Al-Sharif, and got themselves on a flight. Except that the Taliban now would not allow them to leave, because the names of their entourage were not on the State Department list.

So, thanks to pressure from the likes of Crenshaw, who were screaming foul, I believe the state department finally caved in.

Ironically, these are the same Congress people who were cheering Trump's attempt to racially limit immigration of extended families. Obviously not Melania's extremely talented extended family.