Since August 14, the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 109,200 people. Since the end of July, we have re-located approximately 114,800 people.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 27, 2021
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Not worth it.
15k US citizens, countless contractors, employees, govt workers, aid workers etc etc. Ending a 20 year war is hard. You must want to go another 20.
On the contrary, I wouldn’t have wasted effort on those at all. US involvement should have ended in 2002.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. (shrug)
Most of Biden's critics have cleverly avoided saying how many Afghans they think ought to be evacuated, allowing them to claim it wasn't enough no matter how many come out.
But a few intrepid souls like Lindsey Graham have effectively said more than a million. I hope the president highlights those criticisms to show how absurdly off with the pixies the keyboard generals are.
1M is the rough estimate of Afghans who would qualify under Biden's own expansion of P-2 USRAP. These are specifically allies who'd worked for US but did not work long enough to qualify for a SIV.
That's an unworkable amount, particularly since we haven't yet gotten all SIVs out, which makes one wonder why Biden expanded access to USRAP. When Graham suggests 1M, he's suggesting that Biden meet his own obligations, not ones that were saddled on him by someone else.
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I suppose Biden's point might have been to expand access so that these people would feel encouraged to leave Afghanistan on their own and seek out a refugee camp, somewhere?
I still can't see how the US would politically absorb over 1M immigrants, though. I mean, heck, I'd love to see 1M new Americans, but you know, I'm on the far left side of immigration policy with support for practically open borders.
Biden probably expanded it because we had excess capacity on the planes flying out.
You have nothing to say that is grounded in reality. Your words are not important, and I do not hear them.
One million qualifying wouldn't mean one million wanting it. I would guess the number wanting to leave would be less than half, maybe a lot less.
Well yeah, that's a given. But, if any of you cared to understand where Lindsey Graham got that number came from, I was explaining it.
I mean FFS, the left echo chamber is just as bad as the right. No one gives a shit about listening to what other people have to say.
A million lol, must be fun to live in that fantasy world.
Yeah, with one side of his mouth, Senator Graham demands Biden bring over a million plus Afghanis. With the other side, he deplores any of those foreigners entering this country.
Honestly, a dog barking conveys more accurate information than anything Lindsey has said in the last four plus years.
Just saw there are still a substantial number of US citizens who are not convinced they should leave.
If they're not convinced now, they won't be convinced at any point in the future.
What could be so bad for them about life outside of Afghanistan?
Are they all hiding out from the mafia?
They really aren’t Americans. They are Afghans with options. To heck with them.
There are a couple who are reporters and would like to leave, but want to be able to inform the world on goings on in Afghanistan. I've got a lot of respect for these brave souls.
Informing the world? That’s really not something I’d admire.
Yeah it’s always better to be not informed of something. Much easier to ignore something if nobody’s there to inform you of it.
Precisely. And that's why "Afghanistan" hasn't been a big deal over the last decade or so, until a few weeks ago. The American military learned its lessons well from Vietnam: keep it off the Evening News, and nobody will care.
We left with our tail between our legs.