In any imaginable way, the U.S. withdrawal is a shame. We know that thousands of Afghans holding special immigrant visas (SIV) have been left behind. We know that hundreds or even thousands of American citizens and green card holders have also been left behind.The U.S. military rejected some U.S. citizens at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul (HKIA…or what they call it today) and prevented them from leaving Afghanistan (see Shocking text shows that the Army Major knew that passport-wielding Americans were abandoned at Kabul Airport).
Our partner in this company, the Taliban, prevented Americans and SIV holders from entering Hong Kong International Airport (see The “useful” Taliban of the Biden team told the State Department to “fuck yourself” because they stopped the Americans at Kabul Airport). Suspected terrorist with Sex offender Was evacuated while American elementary school students are left behind. Many Afghans who have successfully left may have been targets of human trafficking rather than humanitarian work; see Joe Biden’s “historic” Afghan withdrawal turned into a sex slave market.
As this chaos is accelerating into the cesspool of history, I predict… correct… Biden will try to describe it as a major success. See, for example, When Biden’s flattery claimed that the Kabul disaster would make Biden and the United States stronger, the gas lamp started with If you think Afghanistan is a disaster, you miss the big picture.Get ready to be told this is the new Berlin airlift. Even for the slutty national media, this narrative seems too much, so now we have entered the stage of Sauve this is okay, Everyone is for themselves (The “eternal war” continues, and the defense, state, and intelligence communities blame each other for criminal crimes in Afghanistan).
The Ministry of Defense is particularly active in this area (SecDef Lloyd Austin and CJCS Mark Milley Afghanistan press conference with James Bond Martini quality), but the State Council is running.
For reasons I don’t understand, someone from State believes that the best way to “clarify the facts” in the Afghanistan disaster and recognize the greatness and majesty of the US State Department is to run the article through a tree stump-behind the paywall of The Daily Beast A well-trained poser who writes.I reported on David Roskopff’s antics When Biden’s flattery claimed that the Kabul disaster would make Biden and the United States stronger, the gas lamp startedBecause he tried to explain that the disastrous ending of our Afghan adventure was actually part of Joe Biden’s overall plan to “reset” US policy.
Presumably, this new future needs to spread humiliating policy failures to the world. Now he is back with another episode of MST3K–State Department Edition.The latest post, again behind the Daily Beast Paywall, is During the evacuation of Afghanistan at the State Department. This is the leader:
Almost everything you think you know about how the U.S. State Department handles Evacuate from Afghanistan Is wrong. Not only is it wrong, but it is so badly wrong, you have to ask yourself why.
The narrative is like this The country caught off guard Through the following events The fall of Kabul In mid-August, Turn your back on the Americans and our Afghan allies At the same time, it damages the position of the United States in the world. None of this is true.
Hilarious followed.
In April of this year, the State Department issued the first of 19 warnings urging American citizens to leave Afghanistan. On July 20, 17 days before the fall of Nimruz, the Ministry’s Afghanistan Coordination Task Force was established. Nimruz was the first provincial capital occupied by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
OK. Trump will step down in January. At that time, the scheduled withdrawal time was May 2021. The country organized an “Afghan Coordination Task Force” on July 20, two weeks after the abandonment of Bagram Air Force Base. Yes. They must be inclined towards this. Even with the benefit of suspicion, because in April, Joe Biden changed his exit date to September 11, which did not look better. They waste seven precious months doing jacksh**. If the exit date in May remains the same, this does raise a question.
The primary goal of the working group is to ensure that we allow American citizens to leave and process special immigrant visas for Afghan nationals. As a senior State Department official pointed out to me, “We have inherited a backlog of thousands of SIVs. There is a statutory 14 steps for visa approval. We have greatly accelerated this process. Even the embassy was effectively closed during the COVID outbreak. After that, we did the same. In the face of rapidly accelerating security issues, we did it.”
Part of the reason for the backlog is that former President Donald Trump and his assistant Stephen Miller are actively blocking the plans of our Afghanistan (and our Iraq) allies. The Biden State Department must not only eliminate the damage that has been done, but also do so in a country where the security situation is rapidly deteriorating (partly because of the release of prisoners in the Trump era and the hastily negotiated agreement between Trump and Trump. ). The Taliban completely bypassed the official government of Afghanistan. )
The first SIV flight took off from Kabul on July 29 with more than 220 people on board. That was long before the serial collapse of the Afghan provincial capital, which eventually led to the Afghan capital being besieged and fell on August 15. By then, nearly 2,000 SIV applicants and their families had flown to the United States.
This is total nonsense.
No matter how you cut it, this is an idiot explanation. Any decision to close the U.S. Embassy during the transition of power shows that the person who gave the order was unabashedly stupid. They may have inherited a backlog of work, but there is little evidence that they have taken any measures to speed up the process. They can blame President Trump and Stephen Miller as they wish, but the fact remains that the State Department has seven months to remove obstacles and speed up processing. they do not.
How is this Foreign policy, Almost not a right-wing exit, described the situation:
Adam Bates, policy adviser for the International Refugee Assistance Project, said that the challenges of resettling them should be foreseen. “The U.S. government has 20 years to predict and plan. It is unreasonable that we have arrived so late.”
Biden administration officials said on Wednesday [editor’s note: that would be August 18] This will be them Surging resources When they came to Afghanistan to manage the frenzied evacuation work, they vowed to help these Afghans obtain special immigrant visas (SIV).State Department Spokesperson Ned Price Said At the press conference on Thursday, as of the afternoon of the same day, 6,000 people had been processed at Kabul Airport and were waiting to board and leave the country.Price said the U.S. government has evacuated about 7,000 people from the airport since August 14. [editor’s note: the final evacuation total for SIVs plus family members was 8,500]The government says Evacuation movement “Operation Ally Refuge.”
In other words, the backlog of approximately 18,000 visa applications when Joe Biden was elected president was not processed. This is mainly because the State Department did not begin to push resources to Kabul until 13 days before the evacuation deadline.
The working group’s initial and ongoing focus is to get those who are trying to leave Afghanistan to leave the country. Although their work is far from the spotlight, it is very effective and essential for airlifting 124,000 people out of Afghanistan in just over two weeks.
This is where the problem lies. If we evacuated 8,500 Afghan SIV holders and 6,000 Americans, who are the remaining 110,000? Why is it a success to airlift about 100,000 people whom we know little about, while leaving behind an unknown number of SIV holders and Americans?
Then there is this growler.
According to the State Department, from the first few days of the operation, an extraordinary effort was made to identify Americans and others who needed to be evacuated. Every American in Afghanistan is identified and contacted directly, often repeatedly. According to estimates by the State Council, as part of this work, more than 55,000 calls were made and more than 33,000 text messages were sent. The US embassies in Mexico, India and other places are far from moving, setting up call centers to achieve this kind of complex coordination. Through this process, almost all Americans seeking to leave Afghanistan can do it.
Among the estimated 100 to 200 Americans who remain in the country, their cases continue to receive attention, and President Biden reiterated his commitment to let all those who want to leave. A senior State Department official said: “Although it may seem difficult to imagine many Americans watching Kabul on TV, the decision to leave is a difficult decision for many people.” “Many of the remaining Americans are. Dual citizenship-Afghans and Americans. Many people have established their own lives in Afghanistan and often have extensive families and connections with the community. Some of our families say they don’t want to go, and then the next day they say, yes, They went. Some of our families said they were leaving, and then they did not show up to leave. We will continue to work harder for this.”
However, during the fiasco, the first public homosexual (I only mentioned it because Wikipedia considers it important to include it; I think the operating word there is “open”) State Department spokesperson Ned Price in any The number of Afghan citizens in the United States cannot be provided at that time. Therefore, if they are to assert that this is a success, because only a few hundred Americans are left, then at the beginning of this fiasco, they need to cultivate a large number of Americans in Afghanistan, let us judge for ourselves.
This is what Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State (Wendy Sherman) describes in Kabul, is ridiculous.
Sherman spoke frankly about the misunderstanding surrounding the role of the state in this process. “There was a rapid crash. But we adapted. The process really worked. It must be constantly reinvented on the fly, because you will come up with a way to handle things, and then have to shut it down due to security issues, and then we Had to think of another way. But even on the second day after that terrible attack, within 24 hours, we had another 12,500 people leaving. This is the true story here. In my opinion, all those involved Human commitment and courage are extraordinary.”
Don’t be too detailed, but the country does not manage the airspace of the Hong Kong International Airport, nor does it fly airplanes. National defense did that part. Therefore, it is a very low rent behavior for her to attribute things that she has no responsibility to herself. The boast that 12,500 people fly out is also porridge. Only 14,000 SIV and US citizens were evacuated.
This story is equivalent to an uncritical transcript of the State Council’s defense case. It is not a report. It peddles lies without any attempt to verify the facts. Whenever the Democratic president is in trouble, we look forward to this kind of oral sex news. This particular story has problems worth identifying. First, the source of the story Wendy Sherman (Wendy Sherman) has so little respect for “journalists” or outlets that she did not even try to construct a factually reasonable narrative. In her story, the world starts around July 20th.
The second problem is that any organization that participates in this goat-f*** and brags about its performance is pathological and cannot be saved. It will not avoid this performance in the future-because its leadership told it that the criminal failure of the State Department will eventually result in the summary execution of 10-20,000 forgotten SIV applicants, which is the solution to doing business.
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