Monday, August 23, 2021

KAOS*

Interestingly, most of the reporting is about the "chaos," not about the numbers already evacuated. I even heard one former Bush official (name lost to poor memory) on NPR asserting we simply should have emptied Kabul (or at least the approximately 30,000 Afghanis who "helped" us over 20 years) and worried about "bureaucracy" and relocation later.  (No mention of how many have already been evacuated, just about how bad the line is outside the airport now.) Which is a beyond-Trumpian level of incompetence and misfeasance.  Scoop people up helter skelter and put them...where?  On planes circling for months while governments negotiate how many refugees they will take? 

Even Rammstein doesn't have the capacity for that many people. But, you know, "chaos."
Why do you want to ruin a perfectly good narrative? Or that narrative. Clearly not enough is being done.

*One for Mel Brooks fans.

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