Leaving People Behind After Twenty Years in Afghanistan
Antiwar.com Original Open America’s Doors to Refugees Who Want to Escape Taliban Ruleby Doug Bandow Posted on Losing a war is never pretty. Leaving behind thousands of people who risked their lives to fight with you is truly ugly. If the Biden administration’s timetable for Afghanistan holds firm, American forces will be home by fall. And a multitude of Afghans will be vulnerable to retaliation if the Taliban wins the ensuing struggle, as is widely feared. The potential tragedy – how else to describe the outcome of America’s ill-fated intervention? – brings to mind t...