We join our partners The Afghan-American Foundation to say: Complete the mission. #3years #WeRemember #CompleteTheMission #AfghanAllies

On Afghan women being excluded from Doha III, Sahar Fetrat, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, wrote, “those most impacted by Taliban abuses are being sidelined.” sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyr…

The left: Afghanistan today — the Taliban headed to Turkmenistan to trade Afghanistan’s resources for legitimacy for their regime. The right: Afghanistan in Feb 2021, right before the Taliban takeover — an all-woman flight crew flying a commercial flight from Kabul to Herat.

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I spoke to ⁦𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 𝙱𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚜𝚌𝚑⁩ and The Hill about the Afghanistan withdrawal 3 years later. So many unfulfilled promises, so many people in danger, so many new Afghan-Americans still in legal limbo. #ThisIsHome thehill.com/policy/interna…

"There’s a lot of people that are trying to put a little victory lap out there right now......it’s not earned." said Kim Staffieri, director of the Association of Wartime Allies. "They need to get the f‑‑‑king job done,” she said. thehill.com/policy/interna…

10/10; no notes.

The Afghan Digest Week of Aug 26- Sept 02, 2024 substack.com/home/post/p-14…

“All these people that should be coming here, we’re not going to get them here. We’re not going to fulfill our promise in time for them. That’s what keeps me up at night. And that’s — it’s wrong,” Staffieri said. “It’s just so wrong.”

It’s Groundhog Day. The things that mattered three years ago still matter. People are still not getting evacuated. People don’t have permanent status here. … There’s no money. All the little nonprofits that popped up, they’re out of money,” Joseph M. Azam The Afghan-American Foundation

Seconded. This is spot on. The Taliban are the only people who should be celebrating our current policies regarding Afghanistan and our abandoned allies.

"To aid Afghan women, the world must define and address gender apartheid' msn.com/en-us/news/oth…

The Afghan Digest. SECURITY UPDATE 🚨 ⏰ ‼️ Sept 7, 2024 afghandigest.substack.com/p/next-week-se…

4/1/2021 Flag raised. WRT: 'the U.S...intended for the U.S. Embassy to remain open…executing the NEO before (Aug 15) would have precipitated the very collapse we sought to avoid.' state.gov/state-departme… .Department of State .Secretary Antony Blinken .Matt Zeller .Kim Staffieri 🧵

No one listened when it mattered most. Shameful.

That’s not a partisan attack. That’s the well-documented truth. He and his administration should have long ago admitted it, driven accountability, made changes, and saved more lives. There’s no re-writing the history we all witnessed. And have receipts for.

For all who care about the Afghan experience, this is worth the few minutes to listen and consider

The Afghan Digest Week of Sept 9 thru 15, 2024 substack.com/home/post/p-14…

Out now. Chris Purdy and I sat down with 𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 𝙱𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚜𝚌𝚑 and The Hill for a deep dive into the political posturing over #Afghanistan that’s getting in the way of actual solutions and sorely needed, bi-partisan accountability for a multi-admin failure. thehill.com/policy/interna…

“Afghanistan was a bipartisan, multi-administration failure, and talking about how to fix the parts that can still be fixed — that has to be… bipartisan” ⁦Joseph M. Azam⁩ is right, we’re not gonna solve this with mudslinging. We want real solutions. thehill.com/policy/interna…