it needs to be said every day until it’s resolved, that at least 100 American citizens, an unknown-but-considerable number of U.S. green-card holders, and more than 100,000 Afghan allies who qualified for Special Immigrant Visas remain trapped in Afghanistan.Thank goodness retired military vets and other private citizens are stepping in to rescue people the Biden administration has chosen, despite the president's promise, to leave behind.
They have been abandoned by the Biden administration despite the president’s promise that, “If there’s American citizens left, we’re gonna stay to get them all out.” The U.S. government still cannot say, with any specificity, how many Americans or U.S. green-card holders remain in Afghanistan.
These heroic efforts have actually been opposed by the Biden State Department, which seems inexplicable (see also here).
Perhaps when the the full story comes out we'll learn that our government did much more to help these people than they can reveal now, but if that turns out not to be the case the last month or so will rank as one of the most shameful periods in American history. Certainly one of the most shameful in the last 120 years.