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TH Spring's avatar

We do indeed have an absolute moral obligation to those who helped with the project of building a liberal democracy, vain though it may have been. We have put them at mortal risk. We made promises that couldn't be kept there. Keep it, and bring them here.

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Michael Berkowitz's avatar

I agree about bringing those people on whose backs we've helped to pain target, but I incline towards the opinion of David French at The Dispatch, who maintains that the idea that we have lost the military conflict and need to retreat to save our troops is simply a fiction. The better course, therefore, is to maintain a small military presence there, which is all that's needed to keep the country from falling into the hands of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Also, I can't imagine why one would think that the Taliban would abide by any "concessions" we extract. It would be the height of irresponsibility and disingenuousness to assume that they would.

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