Posted on 08/16/2021 11:11:40 PM PDT by conservative98
Former President George W. Bush on Monday urged President Joe Biden to “cut the red tape” and allow for the swift evacuation of Afghan refugees following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Responding to the fall of Afghanistan’s US-backed government, Bush said the Afghans “at the greatest risk are the same ones who have been on the forefront of progress inside their nation.”
The costly US-led war in Afghanistan began just shy of 20 years ago after the 9/11 attack while Bush was president.
Bush, in his Monday statement, noted Biden has promised to evacuate the Afghans who assisted Americans and its NATO allies over the past two decades.
“The United States government has the legal authority to cut the red tape for refugees during urgent humanitarian crises. And we have the responsibility and the resources to secure safe passage for them now, without bureaucratic delay,” he said in his statement.
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I’ve got an idea... Next time one of our ego-maniacal Presidents decides to ‘go save the heathens’ ON OUR DIME... we should explain that IF our military offers heathens the ‘incentive of a lifetime’ - free citizenship in the US - that they might not fight as hard as they would if the ‘prize’ was simply losing.
It’s kind of as stupid as asking Afghans to work with us and offering the a million dollars if we fail.
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