Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged the Biden administration, with the backing of its international allies, would continue reaching out to those Americans left and help them when they decide to leave.Yep, pretty much sums it up. It isn't like these people are vacationing there with only a suitcase to pack... Everything they own and love is there, guess they have to decide if the chance of dying is worth it to stay.
"If an American in Afghanistan tells us they want to stay for now, and in a week or a month or a year they reach out and say. 'I’ve changed my mind,’ we will help them leave," he said in a televised address Monday evening only hours after the last U.S. military plane took off from Kabul, officially ending the country's longest war.
Blinken said fewer than 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan and the actual number is "likely closer to 100."
The challenge is "there are long-time residents of Afghanistan who have American passports and who are trying to determine whether or not they wanted to leave," he said. "Many are dual-citizen Americans with deep roots and extended families in Afghanistan who’ve resided there for many years. For many, it’s a painful choice." Originally Posted by VitaMan