Travel restrictions across state lines are things authoritarian governments do. In Texas and Alabama, the state governments are implementing laws that are essentially restrictions on interstate travel for those who want to get abortions.
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The Free Press on how attacks on federal government are attacks on the people: Once again, we too urge Congress to keep that promise. The U.S. government made a similar promise keeping it assures that the American commitments will be honored.” We promised to stand by our allies who, often at risk to themselves and their families, served in uniform or publicly defend women’s and democratic rights,” the group wrote in a letter to congressional leadership. “We urge you to support the Afghan Adjustment Act as soon as possible. But the Afghan Adjustment Act needs to be on its to-do list as well.Ī group of veterans organizations wrote to Congress earlier this year, imploring them to support this legislation. Which is kind of the story of Afghanistan for the U.S.”Ĭongress has much to do as it returns from its August recess, yes. “And so far, the government’s demonstrated a manifest inability to deliver on that promise. It’s a very straightforward thing that the U.S. can do to follow through on a promise it made to Afghans,” Afghan-American Foundation board chair Joseph Azam told Vox. Senate, but that has not yet translated into action. The bill has bipartisan support in both the U.S. We failed many of those Afghan partners and people two years ago, and we continue to fail many of them today.Įven in a divided Congress, supporting the Afghans who supported us and those fleeing persecution should be a concept that unites people across Capitol Hill. And too many who did make it here remain in an unacceptable legal limbo. In addition, too many were left behind, subject to the always extreme and increasingly repressive whims of the re-empowered Taliban - especially Afghan women and girls. Around 80,000 Afghans have been resettled in the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome, but most still do not have a legal pathway to remain in the U.S.
“We also know that bureaucracy cannot and must not stand in the way of getting as many more Afghan partners and refugees as possible out of that country, as quickly as possible,” the BDN editorial board wrote on August 17 of 2021.Įventually, more than 120,000 Americans, Afghans and others were evacuated from the Kabul airport during this airlift. Previous administrations in Washington bore some responsibility for the long road that led us there, and despite periodic defensiveness from the current administration, President Joe Biden and his team remain responsible for the haphazard way America carried out its necessary withdrawal after 20 years in Afghanistan.Īs we wrote at the time, it was possible to recognize that the U.S. should have left Afghanistan long before 2021 while also knowing that the early withdrawal scenes at the airport in Kabul were “horrifyingly unacceptable” amid both historic blunders and miraculous missions. We all were witnessing the gutting results of decades of U.S. policy failures in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Many things were true at once amid the chaos. Distraught Afghan people chased and even tried clinging to departing U.S aircraft. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers were killed in a suicide bombing. More than two years ago, this country watched horrified as Americans and our allies scrambled to get out of Afghanistan. failed many Afghan partners two years ago:
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