Start putting translators on planes. Now.

[Jakes Progress]

Don't let this administration be "that guy". We got our troops out in a few weeks. By next week, all of the guides, translators, and other Afghani aids to the US will be dead.

Don't form a committee. Don't have planning sessions. Don't wait for approval from congress.

Just move them to Guam. Now. Start doing it this hour. The Commander in Chief can order this.

[abqtommy]

1. K&R for this great op.

[Hekate]

2. Homeland Security seems to be the stumbling block. Otherwise, I feel as you do. nt

[Jakes Progress]

10. Screw homeland security. Biden can do this tonight.

Guam has already volunteered.

Get moving. Don't go to bed until it's done. Unless you can sleep with visions of beheadings.

[bahboo]

3. yes...absolutely....

[IronLionZion]

4. Biden promised it and I think they are doing it quietly

Pentagon eyes places to send Afghan interpreters as Biden pledges evacuations by end of July

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/562191-pentagon-eyes-places-to-send-afghan-interpreters-as-biden-pledges-evacuations

Their locations are classified of course, but it sounds like they started evac last month to places outside Afghanistan while they figure out how to bring them to the US. It's a tremendous effort since this article claims there are over 15,000 of them.

[crickets]

7. Good to know. Thanks for passing this news along. nt

[Jakes Progress]

8. Follow the news. Three weeks will be too late.

I am concerned for the people that need to be moved, but I'm also concerned for the images of beheaded and murdered Afghans that will start showing up in a week. It will be a stain on this administration.

If we started withdrawing troops in April, why didn't we plan for this. It's not like it's the first time we have had to do this.

But bad pr aside, think of the people who put their trust in our word and now live in terror. 15,000 is nothing if there is the will.

If the humanitarian reasons aren't enough, imagine the you tube videos of the executions.

[IronLionZion]

11. CNN already showed disgusting video of executions

Taliban decided not to take prisoners when they defeated Afghan troops and just killed all of them.

I hope/trust the Biden admin is helping the interpreters quietly and it just isn't making the news for security reasons. This isn't Trump letting the Kurdish people be massacred.

[Jakes Progress]

12. I hope too.

But I don't trust. It wouldn't be a concern for the hundreds of veterans leaving if it was already happening. I don't want these people killed. I don't want Biden to be blamed because he was too busy fighting idiot republicans. That is why I say just do it now. Get on the Commander in Chief telephone and order the immediate transport of our allies. Immediate. Not next week. Definitely not by the end of August. The dying will start in days.

[IronLionZion]

13. Biden administration could bring Afghan interpreters to military bases in U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-afghanistan-interpreters/2021/07/14/fb1d5fae-e4b6-11eb-a41e-c8442c213fa8_story.html

Hoping for the best.

[Jakes Progress]

14. The president of Guam has volunteered her country.

That's where we sent our people after Vietnam. We transported 130,000 then. There is housing and support already there. They stay there until they are vetted.

We can dodge the issue by calling on the Biden administration, but this falls on him. He's the one who can do it today.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. And this is supported by our vets in Congress: VoteVets - Independence:

11 Members of Congress have come together this July 4th to call for the immediate evacuation of Afghan interpreters who served alongside US troops. We have no time to waste.
They were there for us, now we must be there for them.

[RVN VET71]

6. If they drop the ball on this, god damn them

The timetable was not imposed on us. It was set by us. If that time table did not include evacuation of the most vulnerable to America, we’ve committed murder, massive murder, and will be seen to have run like cowards. It will be as bad as Loser-45’s bug out from Syria.

[GoodRaisin]

9. K&R