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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
It looks as though, after twenty years of futility, two and a half thousand U.S. military deaths and twenty thousand wounded, along with a trillion dollars of spending (give or take a couple hundred billion), we may actually be disengaging from Afghanistan.
“Disgraceful” is a word that keeps coming to mind. It’s been an absolute policy failure on the part of three different administrations—four, if you count the current one, which perhaps in fairness you shouldn’t.
If our political system was fit for purpose, there would be impeachments of civilian officials and courts-martial of senior staff officers—dozens of them in both cases—for these twenty years of lies and incompetence.
It’s been obvious for most of those years that our war in Afghanistan was of benefit to only a tiny fraction of Americans: defense contractors, the congressvermin who take their campaign donations, and senior military types wanting to put another colored ribbon on their chests and nail down another post-retirement company directorship.
For the rest of us it’s been money and lives down the toilet.
One consequence of the Afghanistan fiasco: a mighty flood of refugees.
The US is expanding efforts to permit Afghan citizens who have worked with the US to resettle as refugees in America. https://t.co/mCiFO7Ebp3
— VOA Learning English (@VOALearnEnglish) August 3, 2021
A key term here is “SIV,” which stands for “Special Immigrant Visa.” I went to the State Department website with the idea to do a deep dive into this SIV business, but I got lost in the bureaucratic Esperanto and had to give up.
I did at least learn, though, that there are two distinct visa programs in play here:
- The Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans Who Were Employed by/on Behalf of the U.S. Government, and
- Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Iraqi and Afghan Translators/Interpreters
The State Department website, which is aimed at people applying for these visas, carefully cautions you to know which visa you’re applying for. The first category there talks of numbers of visas in the thousands and tens of thousands; the second one, if I haven’t mis-read the Esperanto, is limited to fifty visas a year.
The whole issue is further complicated by:
- The Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2021, i ntroduced May 25th this year in the House, to “extend and modify the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program, to postpone the medical exam for aliens who are otherwise eligible for such program, to provide special immigrant status for certain surviving spouses and children, and for other purposes.” A far as I can figure, this bill is on hold in the House Judiciary Committee.
- Litigation filed in the D.C. federal court under the title: Afghan and Iraqi Allies Under Serious Threat Because of Their Faithful Service to the United States, on Their Own and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated, et al. v. Blinken, et a l. Blinken there is of course our Secretary of State. There have been rulings and judgments and appeals…I have no idea what the current status is, or how it has affected, is affecting, or will affect visa numbers.
As you can see, the matter of visas for Afghans wanting to settle in the U.S.A. under some claim to having helped our war effort is deep and tangled in both legislation and litigation. You could get a Ph.D. in this stuff, if you had a lot more patience than I have.
Casting around for something I could understand, something giving actual numbers, I found this excellent piece by Daniel Greenfield over at FrontPageMag.com, title: ‘Saving Afghan Interpreters’ is a Scam That Would Bring 100,000 Afghans to U.S.[July 23, 2021]
Sample quote:
When the media claims that we’re leaving Afghan interpreters to die, it’s lying. There are few actual interpreters actually applying for SIVs. The vast majority of applicants were just making money from the U.S.
On the other side are stories like this one from Chad Robichaux over at American Greatness. Robichaux is described as “a former Force Recon Marine and Defense Department contractor with eight deployments to Afghanistan as part of a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force.” He writes very eloquently of combat operations he was engaged in, helped by an Afghan interpreter he calls “Bashir.”
This Bashir, Robichaux tells us, saved many American lives and was unfailingly loyal to our troops there. Yet now he’s a Taliban target, in peril of his life:
He has been on the move with his wife and kids, relocating daily to stay safe. He has tried multiple times to get out, but for years the special immigrant visa process has been broken and now the U.S. embassy in Kabul is closed “due to Covid.”
Abandoning Allies Is Current American Policy, August 7, 2021
Robichaux and his former teammates have raised $80,000 to help Bashir move to a safe country with a U.S. embassy where he can apply for asylum.
Has Chad Robichaux made up the Bashir story? Well:
- I would be very wary about saying so in his presence or anywhere near it: his American Greatness byline also tells us he is a former professional mixed martial arts (MMA) champion; and
- In the nature of our operations over there, there must have been a lot of actual Bashirs. There are many private efforts under way by our servicepeople and veterans to help these Afghans get out. Our newspapers have been running stories about them] [‘I’ll Never Forget You’: Veterans Push to Get Afghan Partners in War to the U.S., by Jennifer Steinhauer and John Ismay , NYT, July 22, 2021].
How many of those latter cases, the Bashirs, could there be? Not just Afghans who helped us unload a truck one weekend, but people who provided long spells of meritorious service in our cause, and can be identified and solidly vouched for by our people who worked with them?
I would guess a few hundred; certainly not tens of thousands.
So, what to make of all this? Are we handing out SIVs like candy with, by Daniel Greenfield’s count, a hundred thousand Afghans on their way to permanent settlement here? Or are we, as Chad Robichaux tells us, stiffing a few hundred Afghans who believed in our mission and put their lives on the line to help us?
My guess would be: both. Our immigration system is so intractably FUBAR, I’m perfectly ready to believe that we are letting in for settlement tens of thousands we shouldn’t while denying entry to a few hundred Bashirs to whom, as a matter of national honor, we should be willing to grant settlement.
Sound advice to Bashir, in fact, would be to get the heck out of Afghanistan, take a plane to Ecuador, and hike up through Central America to the U.S. border with all the rest of the Third World, who are chanting as they hike “We don’t need no steenkin’ visas.”
If we had a competent federal bureaucracy we’d sort out the Bashirs and give them settlement visas, then try to help the other hundred thousand applicants relocate to Muslim countries.
To neighboring stans, in fact, of which there is a good supply: Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and not forgetting Turkmenistan … [Opening bars of the Turkmen national anthem.] … yeah, yeah, thanks, guys. As well as having that friendly “stan” in their names, there is considerable ethnic overlap across the borders: Balochs and Pashtuns in Pakistan; Tajiks in Tajikistan; Turkmens and Uzbeks in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan etc.
If we had a competent federal bureaucracy, we could sort it all out.
And, I was going to add, if my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle; but I’m not sure that’s any longer true …
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
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Because co-ethnics did not destroy that country . Your Bush jr AKA white Anglo Saxon Osama Bin did . Now who are you to suggest that they be settled in neighboring countries? The world doesn’t nod yes to your whimsical imagination . It is not 2001 .
Instead of “???!!!”, I’d just use my good old friend, the interrobang: ‽ – to keep it clean and minimalist.
BTW, there are waaay more ‘-stans’ than I thought: Golestan, Balochistan, Bashkortostan and the truly amazing Karakalpakstan!
It ain’t even over, the list continues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-stan
Since Jews really directed the 9/11 attacks, why not send them to Israel?
America invaded them, America should invite them.
They certainly should NOT be sent to Europe (at least not to countries who were part of the “coalition”).
However, you can also send them to Israel.
What a useless, pointless war/occupation.
Some compare the U.S. with the Roman Empire, but it’s certainly a far-fetched comparison. The Roman Empire at least won their wars. Even with their own old b. C. technology, they would have completely destroyed the Taliban in a week, tops.
Or mongered the mess.
Now, nearly 20 years later, he’s still stuffing this Exceptional! column with pronoun propaganda — “we, us, our” — worthy of Pat Buchanan.
But he’s dissident, Right?
It’s actually “bureaucratese” which is the very contrary of any “esperanto”.
You see, Derb, Russians spent over a century and untold riches uplifting Central Asia to minimal standard of civilisation. As a result people of Central Asia don’t see eye to eye with their “co-ethnics” in Afghanistan.
Besides, Afghans who aided NATO war against Taleban are Western assets. It’s Western responsibility to ensure they don’t get slaughtered by the victorious Taleban. Abandoning them will deal a blow to Western prestige and foreign policy. Just think of how other allies of the West are going to feel. Think of Kurds in Syria. Think of Ukrainians. Think of Taiwan.
?? Whose war effort?
Yeah, but look at what a godsend all those Hmong have been to this country.
Maybe the CBS programme, The United States of Al, is designed and scripted to soften our hearts to take 100k lovable and decent Bashirs.
One of the unquestioned tenets of the neo-con/neo-lib war cult has been that we owe citizenship/sinecures to these Benedict Akbars who’ve betrayed their kin and country for precious Western freedoms like muh paycheck, trans-homo, Wal-Mart, nth-wave feminism and Netflix.
Sadly they will fit right into America and Europe’s present mercenary sociopathic populations of deracinated atomized consumer sex-addicts.
Subtraction by addition continues.
The good news is, with the Taliban closing in on Kabul, the ability of the US to fly in and out of that cities airport is rapidly coming to an end. In fact that great danger is the 3000 US troops Biden is flying in to secure the airport this weekend ( it was supposed to be Turkish soldiers until that deal fell apart) might not be able to get back out themselves.
The Taliban doesn’t have to overrun the airport to shut it down. The NVA shut down the runway at our base in Khe Sahn during the Vietnam war by shelling it with heavy artillery based in Laos. Fortunately for the trapped Marines in Khe Sahn the US had unlimited airpower to keep the NVA army at bay and sufficient cargo aircraft to supply our troops via parachute drops. We don’t have that option in Kabul.
Getting our own citizens and embassy staff out now is problematic. How to extract the 3,000 US soldiers sent in to hold the airport long enough for that to take place is an even bigger problem. Yesterday some State Dept. talking head on CNN named Ned Price said only 1200 Afghan collaborators had been resettled. That might be the end of it barring some miraculous 11th hour diplomatic deal that would allow the US to stay long enough to process, assemble and fly out our collaborators many of whom the Taliban, no doubt, have other plans for.
Embarrassing. And brave!
I remember that type of buffoon—useful idiot for PNAC Inc. Never liked Derbyshire, whose career of pained windsocking merits, at best, fremdschämen. That 2002 quote would long ago have self-canceled any honorable man.
Immigrants, generally, should STFU.
The Deep State wants cheap labor.
But most of those ‘refugees’ will not have betrayed their kin, they will have either just taken some money from us, or secretly worked for the other side. Count on that. It’s not like our government is going to check.
My darker side is rather hoping for a 2021 reenactment of the 1842 Massacre of Eiphinstone’s Army. And there’s always the Rudyard Kipling quote:
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
and go to your gawd like a soldier.
I’m responding to the title. Don’t plan to read the article. The “Stans” are mainly Turkic people. The main Afghans who, having betrayed their people, will be seeking refuge amongst the crininals who conquered their country, are genetically closer to Wasps in Assholia than to the people in the “Stans”. These fellow assholes are also your co-genetics, and you’re welcome to them.
What part of the country will. the Federal Government push these “victims” on?
Minneapolis – probably not (the Lutheran Church already did a number on it)
Portland – probably not (would get in the way of Government agents {Antifa}
Hawaii – not likely (Zuckerberg wouldn’t like it)
Miami – no this is the base for messing with Latin America
Dallas – Yeah that’s the ticket! Put them Rednecks in the place.
This “interpreters” cover story reminds me of when the migrants were walking into Germany a few years ago. Most of them, when interviewed by a progressive reporter, self-identified as a “mechanical engineer.” It didn’t turn out that way, of course.
Simultaneous interpretation requires a high level of intelligence and education. A few decades ago, China instituted a rigorous college major in the subject. And sometimes, a masters degree program. Tens of thousands of commercial simultaneous interpreters were trained. By the way, this enabled the offshoring of American manufacturing to China; factory tours and so on became possible. But my point is to illustrate what it means to be a simultaneous interpreter.
I don’t know what 100,000 new immigrants of dubious education, intelligence, and cultural maturity will do. The U.S. already has a sufficient number of leaf blower operators, and more are entering every day.
Finally, how will the U.S. evacuate Afghanistan safely. I will give you a clue. It entails the use of pallets.
My hunch is that these 3,000 troops deployed “to help evacuate” are in actuality a new Biden surge team that will be there for years. There will be a casus belli where they’re “attacked” while “helping civilians pack” which will be the pretext for another deployment of several thousand more troops, and away we go.
Anyway, the Brits screwed over the Gurkhas, who have been forced to comply with quite humiliating rules on emigrating to Cuck Island, my favorite being “a bravery level of one to three.” I’d like to see the British team determining all this. “Sorry mate, your kill count doesn’t quite qualify you for three, but we can send you a pudding.” Too bad we can’t be as ruthless.
If I was Taliban I would ensure Kabul remains open and turn it into a refugee spigot for as long as possible.
I’d ask Pakistan ISI to pump out forged papers to give to every pedophile, drug lord, rapist and criminal. Then as Taliban I would ‘herd’ the traitors towards Kabul, allowing them a chance to masquerade as fleeing interpreters for a chance to win a free all-paid ticket to the West.
20 year war in a place where everyone has a beard and is called Mohammed, the forgeries from Pakistan will add least add to the confusion.
Hey look at the bright side. In 25 years a New Afghanistan will be born in the heart of America. At least the ‘New Afghanistan’ war will cost significantly less, saving on all that transportation and logisitics.
Ah America.
We can’t really go ‘back in”. In 2001 the US was only able to ‘get into” Afghanistan because the world was sympathetic after 9/11 and the Stan nations gave us permission to overfly their territory. Even Russia cooperated as we had not yet made Putin into the primordial Trump.
Since the US doesn’t fight anywhere it doesn’t have air superiority and Russia and the Stans are not about to let USAF re-escalate the Afghan war Biden has no options left. In fact he is being reckless sending those 3,000 troops in because he may not be able to withdraw them if the Taliban doesn’t let him.
What do you mean “all those Hmong”? There’s a tiny number of Hmong in the United States. Most people will go their entire lives without ever seeing one. Stupid bitch.
Thanks for posting.
When was this bande dessinée published?
Mr. Derbyshire,
In regards to settling the refugees in the neighboring co-ethnic countries, I say, “Absolutely not!”
I can’t fault the locals for trying to make a buck with the invading forces, but they should have been aware of the consequences for cooperating and aiding an occupying force.
Instead, I suggest placing the refugees in these “stans”: Bushistan, Cheney-istan, Obama-istan, Congressistan, Pentagonistan, CIA-istan, NATO-istan, just to name a few of the top culprits and their minions. I’m sure they can all afford to foster a family or two, or maybe even a community.
“Disgraceful” is a word that keeps coming to mind.
Agreed, but disgraceful because the US and its lapdogs invaded Afghanistan under false pretenses, as far as I understand, and then milked the "cash cow" for 20 years, to the detriment of both the US and Afghanistan.
Precisely. And those found guilty should have their property confiscated to house the refugees (v. above) AND pay their living expenses.
We have a moral obligation to save our Afghan friends from certain death. They were used by the war machine’s operators the same as the gullible dumb-shit american people who supported and rallied for the misadventure.
Now as intended. My laptop had other other ideas and I was unable to correct within the allotted editing time once I located the issue.
Israel is the PERFECT destination for every immigrant on Earth!
What’s with these pushy sanctimonious “Welcome the Stranger” Jews anyway?
C’mon, you (((shysters))), stop being such goddamn hypocrites!
That quote ought to be Derbyshire’s epitaph.
The coward knows damn well ISRAEL DID 9-11, but he lacks even the decency to demand the Israelis take in their victims:
— (wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it)
Talk about misinformation by omission.
You forgot the most important benefactor (US Gov/CIA/Drug cartel)….Opium. Prior to US invasion, the Taliban had cut opium production to 180 metric tons. After invasion….it wet straight up to 3000 metric tons.
https://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/policy/2020/09/11/afghanistan-opium-production-remains-robust-since-2001-invasion/
Yes indeed, “misinformation by omission.”
Aren’t you forgetting something — the “most important benefactor” is Israel — which did 9-11 specifically to suck us into these Mideastern wars — FOR ISRAEL!
“9/11 Was an Israeli Job – How America was neoconned into World War IV”:
— (https://www.unz.com/article/911-was-an-israeli-job/)
“‘9-11/Israel did it’ – Wikispooks”:
— (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it)
You are supporting the war mongers you nutcase. The plan of the US ((elites)) is invade the World and invite the World. They both go hand in hand. Both feed each other. The guys who destroyed Afghanistan hate White people the MOST. As the US has become more non White , it becomes more crazy and invasive, not less.
All you low IQ jealous nutcases should realize, why are they giving Visas in the first place. All you diseased whores shout out “it is justice, Whitey deserve it” but why are the borders being opened to allow so called “justice”?
The US has global air superiority. That’s why they fly B-52s and B-2s from CONUS to flatten goat-herder huts on the other side of the world.
It does seem like this “withdrawal” was engineered to be anything but a withdrawal, but can the US afford to tie down its real war-fighters, the operators, in a rescue that makes Mogadishu look like Saturday in the park? Those guys are needed to screw with the Chinese elsewhere.
How about Franklin, TN?
Come to St Paul– or Eau Claire, Wausau, Appleton*, Green Bay, or Fresno– and see how this worked out with the Hmong.
China is the only empire left that hasn’t attempted to take on the Afghans– ironic because it’s the only one that borders the country. (Turn your watch back 3½ hours! “Jet lag by foot“!
I was going to ask, how old is this aunt? Derb is 76. Then I remembered that my grandmother-in-law came from a typically numerous French-Canadian family in which there was at least one (and likely several) case of aunt-and-niece classmates.
Not that the Derbyshires were that fecund or fast.
*Yes, Joe McCarthy’s Appleton. He’d have been proud.
There is a “tiny number” of Amish, Hasidim, Somalis, Unitarians, Mexican coyotes, emerald ash borers, and academic feminists. But they have this tendency to concentrate. Those who have to deal with them every day have stories to tell.
Your “tiny number of Hmong” is packed into a handful of cities. Or Packed, if you will:
Joe Biden originally thought it would take 90 days for Kabul to fall, but Now Kabul has fallen in 2 days. It looks like Taliban is beginning to shut down the airport, so most of those 100000 refugees will not be able to get out.
The betrayal of kin, methinks, would be failing to take advantage of an opportunity that could potentially provide relative peace and security for family. If you had children you would understand that.
Globo-homo-schlomo and all of the degradation associated with it? I don’t think that this is what a poor person normally dreams of.
Consumerism? Perhaps.
I don’t blame the average Afghan for wanting a better life. I blame the special tribe, (‘God’s Chosen People’ don’cha know?) for the infection of society, and for the disaster and tragedy that follows.
It was always a grift, it was always a scheme, it was always easy to fool the goy.
Bring on the next existential crisis which will require trillions of dollars and reduction in civil liberties!
This is why the US must invade Sweden: tall, blonde refugees!
@24 Anon[636]: Even one (Hmong, or subcon, or subSaharan) is too many, White-hating asshole.
I want lots of Pashtun Afghanistan refugee soldiers in blue states and cities imposing Sharia on American feminist she-beasts. Democrat women are pigs and need lots of discipline and those gents will provide it. Especially around the colleges. Give them their diversity good and hard.
Islam own Swedish women now.
If filthy ragheads can escape the taliturds, so can a few 100,000 Swedish women.
The biggest obstacle would be our own evil government.
It seems that Albania and Kosovo will be accepting these refugees destined for the US.
https://www.rferl.org/a/albania-kosovo-afghan-refugees/31411844.html
Apparently it is supposed to be a temporary measure while the refugees’ US visa applications are processed. But then some, or many, could decide to head to Western Europe together with all the other refugees from the Middle East. So that Bondsteel base in Kosovo will now be shipping Afghan refugees to hand over to people smugglers instead of heroin for drugs smugglers and distributors it served previously. From one criminal enterprise to another.
They are not going to maintain hostages. They’ve bloody well won. They are not dumb enough to spoil it all. Their ISI handlers certainly are not stupid.
Most of the troops were Indians. The Taliban have killed around 70,000 Afghan Soldiers in the last 15 years. Elphinstone didn’t have many white men around. You can check the numbers. I think the Taliban have killed more whites already than the old Pathans did in the 1840s
It’s a Jewish run operation. They profit coming (contracting) and going (slave/refugees)
Don’t you worry, Doctor Merkel (aka Mommah Diabola da big Islamizah) will organise airlifts for all of them to settle on the confiscated lands formerly owned by the Germans. 3 million “new citizens” have already been announced, and the German chicks are dancing with joy that real men, armed and stinking, will soon replace the lachrymose “I want to be an artist” hipsters. Feminists, too, are overjoyed, because they think that burqas will eventually give them the long-sought freedom from the lustful stare of toxic white men. Let the games begin.
America’s current crisis cannot be resolved by constitutional means. The military took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. The biggest threat to America is domestic. We can handle the Russians,Chinese, Iranians and others . They are not going to attack America. The oath the military took was not for an individual or political party. If the politicians and judges do not do their jobs, what is left other than the military?
As for “civilian control of the military”, that concept is not a suicide pact. The way things stand right now it is coming nearer and nearer to being a suicide pact.
Indeed. In related news, Australia announced the initial intake of 3,000 Afghan refugees, to be followed “hopefully by many more”. Sure – that’s exactly what Australia needs right now: thousands of uneducated, unvaccinated, unemployable yet firmly Muslim residents – as if Sydney’s western suburbs weren’t already full of them.
As for the title of the article, “why not settle them in the Stans?” – well, probably for the same reason you can’t resettle Palestinians in nearby Islamic countries: they want nothing to do with them.
Then why NOT settle them in the USA or UK or Germany or France? Indeed, why should they NOT be settled in the countries who so gleefully bombed, maimed and murdered Afghans in the name of Freedom, CAUSING a refugee problem? You caused the problem, you deal with it. The “STANS” had NOTHING to do with the invasion which produced this flood of refugees. I guess, now that some Afghans have tasted Your Western Freedoms, they’d like it in perpetuity. Good Luck MF
Oh contraire, my dear (((douchebag.))) W was loyal to the J. Put these folks in Israel since the Jews are so loving, so warm, so intelligent and since the Jew has suffered so much, he can use his love to nurture these Afghans. REGULAR WHITE PEOPLE do not wish to go to war, only shabbos goyim and Jews want this one.
Watch the shabbos goy and Jew start taking Go Fund Me thingies for these poor people. I feel these people’s pain, but you can bet some (((turd))) will make money on it. GLAD that NOTHING ESCAPES THE ALMIGHTY GOD, people who are truly at fault will answer and answer good. Meanwhile I am off to enjoy a steak and tater. That (((covid))) is destroying my appetite. hehe.
How many refugees will Martha’s Vineyard accept?
Why? Because in Invade the world/ Invite the world the Invite the world was always the most important component, by a wide margin. It’s always been a race war against white people from the very beginning. Genocide. Other than fighting for the country our rulers are actually loyal to, Israel, these wars for political correctness were always about erasing national sovereignty, and always targeted at whites and the West. Anti-racism has indeed always been a code word for anti-white, right from the beginning. And it’s always worked because it has been protected by the treasonous gatekeepers of conservatism. Even now they’re talking about impeaching Joe Biden while begging for Afghani occupiers. Making cheap political points while upholding the multicultural, one-world concepts that are actually destroying their nation, and are certainly destroying conservatism and their party. There is simply no words that convey just how evil these quislings are.
The ruling trash began to see themselves as citizens and sovereigns of the world at the end of WWII, and the American nation and people became just another colony to be ruled, one that has to be tightly controlled because it is the source of their power and the greatest threat to that power. In the end they will destroy that source and destroy themselves, but that is the standard trajectory of empires.
Go Pack!
I see you’re operating on the fumes of memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/23/people-posing-direct-threat-to-uk-found-among-potential-kabul-evacuees
Present-day Brits are at least as cucky as our rulers.
Since you’re secretly a Jew, why don’t we toss you out of a helicopter?
Too many. Enough to include this guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Vang And then there are the Vietnamese. Consider Chief United States District Court for the District of Nevada Miranda Mai Du. Her father was an “interpreter” or the equivalent, but letting him (and her) in is a fine example of a “good deed” we’re currently being punished for.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-federal-judge-struck-down-one-of-the-most-widely-prosecuted-offenses-in-immigration-law-slamming-racist-origins/ar-AANy0lu
Why not settle them in the “stans” were they would be among their own? Because then the Neo-Cons would not be acting like Neo-Cons. They would be neglecting the second part of what they do. They invaded a nation, now they invite it. Thus, invade and invite is what Neo-Cons do, Of course I know you know this, but it was too tempting not to reiterate it..
Do you have any basis for your guess, or are you just pulling a number out of your keister? You say you researched visa on the State Department’s website, but you couldn’t be bothered to get an idea of how many?
You could have spent a little time getting a better idea than just guessing.
Worked for Germans and Japanese, and many others throughout history.
Just b/c it was stupid of the US to stay after Tora Dora doesn’t make the Taliban into patriots who should have been supported. And, no, for the US to have good reason to kick them didn’t require any false pretenses.
Haha! Suck it up, USers. You broke it, you bought it. Eat your dinner!
Send them to Midland Texas. Set up an extra-large tent city on the Bush ranch then Dick Cheney’s house.
Does anyone know why some of these haven’t been published here by Mr. Unz?