Democrat friends:
The abandonment of the Afghani translators by the current administration is unconscionable. I’m watching far too many Democrats blow this off as no big deal or as some sort of partisan bickering.
One of the defining pathologies of the GOP right now is the complete inability to be critical of Trump. Watching Democrats follow that same pathology in refusing to be critical of Biden is a situation that is pretty objectively horrifyingly immoral leads me to believe that hypocrisy isn’t a hallmark of the GOP, it’s just a hallmark of partisans across the board.
Political loyalty is the death of ethics, regardless of party.
Biden had 20 years as a Senator, President, and Vice President to have a plan to extract them along with the rest of our personnel. People have been begging him to evacuate them since he took office. Rather than get those staunch allies out of harms way, he issued a press release about the pullout and instituted a massive bureaucracy that all but assured that very few of those people who put their lives on the line for US soldiers would ever be rescued.
Outside of the campaign trail, Biden has always had brutal policies towards refugees, so this isn’t a surprise… but it’s a stain on the American soul and the American military.
I get that people's opinion here is in the majority among Democrats and that mine is in the minority. Those people who risked their lives to help American soldiers weren’t actually born in the US, so fuck’em, right? I mean, we had the means to evacuate them, but we don’t have any moral obligations to rescue people who put their lives on the line for US soldiers because they’re “foreigners”, right?
This is one of those days when I wish that Democrats were distinguishable from Republicans.