From WSJopinion: It will be a moral stain to leave behind those who fought alongside us at risk to themselves and their families, and it will deter others from helping us in the future, writes Paul Wolfowitz
. Neither figure comes close to the 20,000 or more who have been desperately waiting for visas for months and need to escape. No One Left Behind, a charity that assists Afghans who worked for the U.S., estimates there could even be tens of thousands more in need.
President Biden was right to deploy more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to secure the airport for evacuation flights. But four more actions are urgently needed: • Our diplomats should be pressing countries in the region, particularly beneficiaries of U.S. security support such as Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates, to provide first asylum to evacuees. That would shorten flight times, significantly increasing airlift capacity. It also would permit evacuees’ immigration status to be determined before they travel to the U.S. or elsewhere for resettlement.
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