Afghanistan: Breaking the Cone of Silence

Thousands of our Afghan allies remain in hiding, fearing Taliban vengeance and begging Washington to get them out of the country.

A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, Scott Mann, and a former State Department spokeswoman, Heather Nauert. The New York Sun

One of the under-covered stories right now is the plight of America’s Afghan allies whom the Biden administration left behind when it surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, abandoned our bases, and decamped the theater of our longest war. There are estimates that as many as 100,000 are still stranded in Aghanistan, where they are in hiding and being hunted by Taliban assassination squads.

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