‘Creating a database’ really isn’t doing much of anything except dilly-dallying around on a computer.<\/p>\n
Pentagon Ratcheting Up Efforts to Get Americans Out of Afghanistan.<\/a><\/p>\n Without bothering to give its hapless readers any reminders about how and why Americans got stuck in Afghanistan in the first place, NBC News\u00a0reported Monday<\/a> that \u201cthe Pentagon is stepping up efforts to get family members of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, creating a database of the dozens who are trapped there.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s terrific, but why now? Why the long delay in moving on this? And why was priority placed on bringing\u00a0unvetted and unvettable<\/a>\u00a0Afghans into the United States rather than getting the Americans out? As usual with Biden\u2019s handlers, no useful answers are forthcoming.<\/p>\n NBC noted that on Thursday, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl \u201cissued a memo asking any U.S. military personnel and DOD civilians with immediate family members who need help leaving Afghanistan\u00a0to email his office.\u201d Wonderful, but why did it take him two months since the American military withdrawal to do this?<\/p>\n The NBC report also states that \u201cthere are still several dozen immediate family members of U.S. service members in Afghanistan, according to defense officials. Those include children, sisters and brothers, and parents. There are well over 100 extended family members still in Afghanistan, but it\u2019s not clear how many of them want to leave the country, the officials said.\u201d Kahl\u2019s new memo demonstrates, according to the unnamed defense official that NBC quotes, \u201ca more deliberate effort at the DOD level\u201d to get these people out. \u201cThere is an increased desire to make sure that as we make this push that we have every situation accounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n However, even as this new effort is being made, \u201cthe Pentagon does not have a good accounting of how many DOD civilians still have immediate family members in Afghanistan, the officials said.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s inexcusable, as these people are severely threatened. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: \u201cOver the past month, I have been contacted by hundreds of Texans who are desperately trying to get friends and family members safe out of the country. That includes the family members of several Texans who currently serve in the military. The federal government has turned their backs on them. If we abandon the family members of our service men and women in Afghanistan, they will certainly be slaughtered by the Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s certainly true, but Biden\u2019s handlers had other priorities. 70,000 Afghan evacuees are already in the U.S., and the total number is expected to exceed\u00a0124,000<\/a>\u00a0before long. The foolishness of this, and the howling injustice of prioritizing getting these people out before rescuing all the Americans in the country, is already becoming apparent: one of Biden\u2019s handlers, unnamed in a late October\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0report<\/a>, has admitted that ten of these evacuees have already been detained as risks to national security.<\/p>\n There will be more of that sort of thing. In mid-October, a delegation led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) arrived at Doha\u2019s Al Udeid Air Base for a briefing on the efforts to get Americans and our allies out of Afghanistan. The briefing,\u00a0said Issa<\/a>, was \u201cshocking to a lot of members.\u201d It was shocking because the lawmakers were told that fully 12,000 of the Afghans who had come to Camp As Sayliyah and then went on to the U.S. had no identification at all. Issa stated: \u201cThey came with nothing. No Afghan I.D., no I.D. of any sorts. Those people were all forwarded on to the U.S., and that\u2019s quite an admission. So many people had no I.D. whatsoever and yet find themselves in the United States today based on what they said.\u201d<\/p>\n As terrible as this was, it is was in line with what we already knew. Back on September 1, according to\u00a0Politico<\/a>, \u201ca State Department official said in a private briefing to reporters that \u2018the majority\u2019 of special immigrant visa applicants were left in Afghanistan due in part to the complications of the evacuation, and that he and his team are \u2018haunted\u2019 by the evacuees the U.S. could not get out by the Aug. 31 deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n So now it is the second week of November, and there are still Americans trapped in Afghanistan, while there are hundreds of Afghans, natives of a jihadi hotspot, who have\u00a0walked off<\/a>\u00a0bases and are now somewhere in the United States, but no one knows where. What\u2019s more, there are thousands of others who are here or on their way here, about whom we know absolutely nothing. Could they be jihad terrorists? We\u2019re likely to find out eventually.<\/p>\n And as this fiasco is unfolding, Biden\u2019s handlers are only now starting to get to work on getting the remaining Americans out of Afghanistan. If there weren\u2019t so much other evidence of the malevolence and incompetence of this administration, all this might actually be shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘Creating a database’ really isn’t doing much of anything except dilly-dallying around on a computer. Pentagon Ratcheting Up Efforts to Get Americans Out of Afghanistan. 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