U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city\u2019s airport, a choice that’s prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials… the decision to provide specific names to the Taliban, which has a history of brutally murdering Afghans who collaborated with the U.S. and other coalition forces during the conflict, has angered lawmakers and military officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBasically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,\u201d said one defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. \u201cIt\u2019s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If they had a plan do make not only the wrong choice at every single turn of this debacle, but surgically home in on the worst possible choices <\/em>in every possible circumstance, what would our Houseplant in Chief be doing different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…to never ascribe to malice what can just as easily be chalked up to stupidity. I try to live by that advice. But with God as my witness, sometimes it’s so, so very very hard: U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-afghan-debacle","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79349,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79348\/revisions\/79349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}