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If History and Vietnam Have Taught Us Anything, The End is Rarely Pretty, Glad there were Marines there to Take Care of Business.
Witnesses to the End
Posted from nytimes.com
Kabul
Marines
Posted >1 y ago
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The right is doing a good job of blowing it completely out of the water and turning it into a political win....
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PFC David Foster
SFC Casey O'Mally - According to Reuters, towards the first of September, there were 200 Americans left and 98% wanted to stay, so that left 4 at that time that wanted out and there was a lot of help to get them out, so I am certain they have all been home, at least the ones that wanted to come home... The Taliban agreed to let them leave in September, we didn't have to sneak them out.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
PFC David Foster
Dated October 26: Almost two months after the U.S. withdrew all of its troops, the State Department is in touch with hundreds of Americans who want to leave Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s top policy official said Tuesday.
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/10/26/hundreds-of-americans-remain-in-afghanistan-pentagon-official-says/
That was literally the first Google hit for "Americans still in Afghanistan." Fox and CNN have similar reports. And foreignpolicy.com includes not just citizens, but also legal US residents, and puts the number in the thousands (up to 14,000).
In the immediate aftermath, Reuters ran with numbers without confirming them. And they ran with numbers from the administration during the propaganda... I mean "messaging" campaign directly following the botched retreat, which I have dubbed "operation downplay the embrassment."
Dated October 26: Almost two months after the U.S. withdrew all of its troops, the State Department is in touch with hundreds of Americans who want to leave Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s top policy official said Tuesday.
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/10/26/hundreds-of-americans-remain-in-afghanistan-pentagon-official-says/
That was literally the first Google hit for "Americans still in Afghanistan." Fox and CNN have similar reports. And foreignpolicy.com includes not just citizens, but also legal US residents, and puts the number in the thousands (up to 14,000).
In the immediate aftermath, Reuters ran with numbers without confirming them. And they ran with numbers from the administration during the propaganda... I mean "messaging" campaign directly following the botched retreat, which I have dubbed "operation downplay the embrassment."
Hundreds of Americans remain in Afghanistan, Pentagon official says - Roll Call
The Defense Department says there are still hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan, but some do not wish to leave.
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PFC David Foster
SFC Casey O'Mally - Solid source... yea, and we have an agreement with the Taliban to get them out unharmed...That was two weeks ago.... Reuters made it sound like there was only 200 left, but still only 200 left that want to come home two weeks ago.... you can easily get 200 people on one plane...
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SrA John Monette
PFC David Foster - Those would be the ones who said "no thanks" the first time around.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The Lost and the Missing
The Marines were under orders: Anyone in the crowd with one of four golden tickets — American passport, green card, special immigrant visa, yellow badge from the American Embassy — or who fit some special nebulous exception that the Biden administration was calling “vulnerable Afghans” could be allowed into the airport. But those criteria didn’t cover most of the people clamoring to get in, and there were so many people that the Marines often couldn’t find the ones who had golden tickets anyway. On top of that, the Marines were inundated with phone calls and text messages from senators in Washington, D.C.; Afghan War veterans in California; news organizations; and nonprofit groups, all trying to get vulnerable Afghans through the gate."...
..."The Lost and the Missing
The Marines were under orders: Anyone in the crowd with one of four golden tickets — American passport, green card, special immigrant visa, yellow badge from the American Embassy — or who fit some special nebulous exception that the Biden administration was calling “vulnerable Afghans” could be allowed into the airport. But those criteria didn’t cover most of the people clamoring to get in, and there were so many people that the Marines often couldn’t find the ones who had golden tickets anyway. On top of that, the Marines were inundated with phone calls and text messages from senators in Washington, D.C.; Afghan War veterans in California; news organizations; and nonprofit groups, all trying to get vulnerable Afghans through the gate."...
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