We are doomed to be completely out of Afghanistan by September. Let me tell you what happened with the Iraqi translators that Abdulla, my staffer, was part of.
Editor's note · Context
Discussing the urgency of evacuating Afghan translators before the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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