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Suicide bombers when i was in kabul. i can just only manage. as a veteran and as someone trying to get colleagues and friends out of afghanistan and people with prior si visas, that door has probably slammed shut now. they were already desperate to get there with the crowds. with the taliban stopping those trying to get out, it was nearly impossible to get out. it looks like the door has shut. its a tragic day everywhere around and everybody who served the united states. the afghan civilians try...

As we watch the desperate scenes of people trying to escape afghanistan, we wondered how many afghans actually need the protection of the u.s. so here are the facts. the international rescue committee says about 300,000 afghans have been affiliated with the u.s. mission in afghanistan in the nearly two decades since 9/11. congress has approved enough special immigrant visas or si visas, as theyre known, to accommodate just over 10% of that number, 34,500. we should note they often take years to ...