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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...

TAMPA, FLORIDA

  From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732        1185        246        82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120       572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835       130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168        82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571    ...