Despite the physical difficulties inherent in an evacuation operation like that underway at the Kabul airport, attention to the matter in Washington, D.C. and among the mainstream media, has reached the point of becoming an object of partisan fixation and hysteria. Instead of seeking to understand the necessary great change for humanity that must follow from the recent events in Afghanistan, and being useful concerning logistics, members of both parties are seeking partisan advantage by pressuring President Joe Biden to expand the evacuation operation beyond the walls surrounding the Kabul airport.
An op-ed placed in the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 19 by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, a fixture in neo-coonservative warmongering circles since his retirement in 2003, in which they practically argued for the reinvasion of Afghanistan in order to expand the rescue operation out into more distant areas of Afghanistan. “It must be made clear to the Taliban that we are committed to helping those who sacrificed for us and will ensure their safe evacuation,” they write. “We must establish safe corridors not only in Kabul but throughout the country to move those who cannot make it to the capital.”
