Can we evacuate 300,000 people from Afghanistan? It doesn’t matter if this wasn’t the question we wanted to answer. It’s the only question now. And probably, there are just hours left to make the commitment that we will. Because whether leaving Afghanistan was the right call or not; whether it’s all gone to plan or would always have been chaos; whether the error was merely in execution or in strategic view — we cannot ignore the implications of failure if the evacuation of Afghanistan leaves 300,000 people behind. It will change us and everything that we are able to do after.
300,000 Afghan lives. The only victory left …
Can we evacuate 300,000 people from Afghanistan? It doesn’t matter if this wasn’t the question we wanted to answer. It’s the only question now. And probably, there are just hours left to make the commitment that we will. Because whether leaving Afghanistan was the right call or not; whether it’s all gone to plan or would always have been chaos; whether the error was merely in execution or in strategic view — we cannot ignore the implications of failure if the evacuation of Afghanistan leaves 300,000 people behind. It will change us and everything that we are able to do after.
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