Vets Are Worried Their Afghan Allies Will Be Killed Before They Can Evacuate

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. is evacuating thousands of people a day from Kabul, prioritizing Americans and citizens of NATO allies. The Taliban insist that all troops must be out of the country by the end of the month. That has left Americans who were deployed to the country worried about the fate of their Afghan allies — particularly those outside of the capitol city.

This episode: demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and veterans correspondent Quil Lawrence.

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0:51.0	...105 PM on August 23rd.
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1:07.0	Hey folks, it is the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover demographics and culture.
1:13.0	I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.
1:16.0	And we are joined by NPR's Quill Lawrence, NPR Veterans Correspondent, and formerly our Bureau Chief in Kabul. Hey Quill.
1:23.0	Hey there.
1:24.0	And today we are going to talk about Kabul and more broadly Afghanistan. We're going to talk about the status of evacuations from that country.
1:31.0	President Biden spoke yesterday on this topic, saying that 28,000 people have been evacuated since August 14th.
1:39.0	In addition, the Pentagon said this morning that 16,000 people have been evacuated in the last 24 hours, including 11,000 by the US military.
1:49.0	And in the speech this weekend, Biden continued to defend the decision to withdraw troops.
1:54.0	Look, I had a basic decision to make.
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