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HINDSIGHT IS EASY, BUT...

 By now surely you've seen this photo of  640  or so Afghans in Kabul  yesterday? That is not the Kabul Airport lobby.  This is inside of the U.S. military plane that took them to Qatar.  Did you notice how many were on the outside of some jets, and the unfortunate that fell from the sky while trying to cling on to the above departing flight? Supposedly, we have already flown out 2000 high priority Afghans who were interpreters.  How many more need to be saved?  Including family, more than 100,000.   400,000 have already left , but those were the usual war emigrants.  Who wants to go to  Tajikistan , but an offer has been made to take in 100,000 refugees from its neighboring Afghanistan.   Canada  has promised to accept 20,000.  The European Union has been chary. How can the U.S. fly out more than 100,000 in a few days?  You say they could have started weeks ago.  But who knew the Taliban was going to take over the country in just a few days?  Apparently not our intelligence commun