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Libertarian: The Afghans We Left Behind

“One year after the U.S. withdrawal,” nearly 80,000 “Afghans who assisted American forces are still stuck under Taliban rule,” deplores Reason’s Fiona Harrigan. “We have been unemployed for a year. Our children cannot go to school. We ourselves are in hiding,” says a man who worked at Kabul’s US embassy for four years. His relatives worked with Canadians, Germans and Brits, he says, and “all of them were transferred with dignity and respect, but I stayed here.” Notes Harrigan: Helpers “contributed years of their lives to the U.S. military, but they were unable to access the visas Washington promised them — and the escape route that American politicians laid out” last summer. At current rates, many visa-eligible Afghans will still be waiting in 2029, when Biden could be finishing his second term.

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