Follow Joe Biden’s Disastrous, angry remarks Yesterday marked the end of the war in Afghanistan, and his officials’ talking points were clear: they would claim it was a huge success, even if the Americans still Trapped behind enemy lines.
As a ridiculous example, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin showed the nation what has actually happened in the past few weeks.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: “We have just ended the largest civilian aerial evacuation in American history. This is heroic. This is historic.”
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However, the new figures on how many Afghan allies (translators, intelligence personnel, etc.) actually withdrew reveal how stupid this is. Although the government touted the total number of evacuees provided some proof of their strategic and tactical mistakes, most of these people did not seem to be former US military allies at all.In fact, although only about 5,400 Americans were safely taken to safety, only about 8,500 SIV holders Rescued, The vast majority have been left behind.
Officials say most interpreters and other U.S. visa applicants are left behind in Afghanistan – Wall Street Journal https://t.co/bkJtPxo4Kz
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 1, 2021
In other words, Biden has been boasting that his so-called great success is actually a great failure. The airlift may have transported 120,000 people in total, but these people are not primarily the Afghan allies we vowed to protect.
according to NBC NewsApproximately 20,000 Afghans who have worked with the US government applied for SIV in May. There is no doubt that this number has soared as the Taliban will prevail. When you add their families, this number jumps to nearly 75,000. In the end, we got about 8,500, which is only a small part of what we promised.
Regardless of whether people agree to bring SIV here, the question here is how common the misleading claims made by Biden and his associates after the operation in Afghanistan ended. They continue to present a beautiful picture that is clearly unreal. The airlift not only failed to evacuate all Americans, but also overwhelmingly failed to evacuate Afghan allies. This is not the reality that the government acknowledged when they trot to Austin to blow away the smog behind the national collective.
What we are seeing now is a struggling government, desperate to conceal its incompetence. The airlift did not achieve great success. On the contrary, it was a hasty, poorly planned, and chaotic retreat that left tens of thousands of people who deserved the mercy of the Taliban.
This leaves a big question: who have we evacuated?
