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Finally: Pentagon Ratcheting Up Efforts to Get Americans Out of Afghanistan
2021-11-12
[PJMedia] Without bothering to give its hapless readers any reminders about how and why Americans got stuck in Afghanistan in the first place, NBC News reported Monday that "the Pentagon is stepping up efforts to get family members of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, creating a database of the dozens who are trapped there."

That’s terrific, but why now? Why the long delay in moving on this? And why was priority placed on bringing unvetted and unvettable Afghans into the United States rather than getting the Americans out? As usual with Biden’s handlers, no useful answers are forthcoming.

NBC noted that on Thursday, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl "issued a memo asking any U.S. military personnel and DOD civilians with immediate family members who need help leaving Afghanistan to email his office." Wonderful, but why did it take him two months since the American military withdrawal to do this?
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Biden footnote: There are 40m Americans in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2021-11-12 16:06  

#2  Should have added: And the relative proximity of the 2022 elections.
Posted by: Tom   2021-11-12 14:10  

#1  That’s terrific, but why now? Why the long delay in moving on this?

I think you'll find the answers in Virginia and New Jersey.
Posted by: Tom   2021-11-12 14:08  

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