What about translators?

[samintx]

They helped us in Afghanistan ..now we are dumping them. Good move, America.

[RgrF]

Just following the precedent we established on the way out of Vietnam.

[bfd]

RgrF wrote:
Just following the precedent we established on the way out of Vietnam.

Won't be any "boat people" this time. Caravaners, maybe…

[Racer X]

As soon as it stops benefiting the country, our policy is to revert to being assholes. If it ISN'T policy, then why does it happen every time?

[Sarcany]

45 dumped them.

Biden is at least making an effort to protect them.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/02/politics/...index.html

With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan just days away, the Biden administration is asking countries in Central Asia to temporarily house thousands of Afghan interpreters and translators while they wait for visas to the United States, according to a US official and another source familiar with the discussions.

The US is in discussions with Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to take in some of the Afghans who worked alongside US troops and diplomats during the 20-year-long conflict and who may be at risk from the Taliban as the security situation in Afghanistan rapidly deteriorates, the sources said.

One administration goal is to spread the Afghans out across a number of countries so that no one nation has to take all 18,000 who are currently in the long process of getting a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), according to a source familiar with ongoing discussions.

While the immediate focus will be on getting about 9,000 of the 18,000 applicants out of the country -- people in the final stages of the visa process -- the effort could extend to upwards of 50,000 people, as Afghans who applied for visas will be given the opportunity to bring family members, sources said...

[Racer X]

Once they "signed up" and put in a good faith effort, the process should have started way back then.

[Speedy]

Bring them here, sort it out later.

[RgrF]

Of the get dumped on Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, they'll never make it to anywhere safe.

[samintx]

The saving is grinding very very slowly. All will have been killed by the time a token translator is produced.

[RgrF]

If the closing of Bagram Airfield is any precursor, those translators don't stand a chance.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s district administrator for Bagram, Darwaish Raufi, said the American departure was done overnight without any coordination with local officials, and as a result early Friday, dozens of local looters stormed through the unprotected gates before Afghan forces regained control.

“They were stopped and some have been arrested and the rest have been cleared from the base,” Raufi told The Associated Press, adding that the looters ransacked several buildings before being arrested and the Afghan forces took control.

However, U.S. military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett said the handover was an “extensive process” that spanned several weeks and began soon after Biden’s mid-April announcement that America was withdrawing the last of its forces.