America owes the people of Afghanistan, writes onesarahjones
Photo: Akhter Gulfam/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Afghanistan had barely fallen to the Taliban when the fear-mongering began. “If history is any guide, and it’s always a guide, we will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country, and over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions,” Tucker Carlson warned on his Monday-evening broadcast. “So first we invade, and then we are invaded.” Laura Ingraham struck a similar note later that night.
“It’s like they want the credit from liberals for ending the Trump cruelty to immigrants and refugees but they also don’t want the political backlash that comes from actual refugees arriving in America in any sort of large numbers,” an anonymous administration official told Politico. This is cowardice of the rankest order. America owes the people of Afghanistan. The U.S. government made promises to the taxpaying public, who subsidized the long war, and to the Afghan people themselves.
This isn’t all down to Biden, though his tenure in power means that he, along with the rest of his party, bear significant responsibility for the quagmire Afghans are trying to escape. The war in Afghanistan was a bipartisan adventure involving four different presidents. It fell to the last to devise a way out, and because victory had become impossible to even define, leaving was the only option left.
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