(cont'd from yesterday's post)
General Petraeus, former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, says the situation is a disaster, that the country will be a sanctuary for Al-Qaeda and Islamic State after the Taliban take control.
It's a disaster for one group more than any other: people who helped the U.S. Imagine their desperation now that the Taliban has power. America's military made them safe for 20 years but now they're pulling out, leaving our Afghan allies to the mercy of barbarians. One of them says, "We are all living in fear."
Some, about 640 persons, managed to get to the airport and onto a U.S. military cargo plane.
Others flooded the roads and headed for the border.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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