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The chaotic American withdrawal forced individual soldiers, aid workers, and journalists to decide which Afghans would be saved.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/who-gets-to-escape-the-taliban
What became apparent at the gates of the Baron is that there was no American strategy for leaving Afghanistan—none that considered the future of the Afghans left behind. President Biden asserted to the press for months, at times angrily, that Kabul was not Saigon. Based on what I witnessed, he was right. It was worse.