Lost in Translation

Nearly 17,000 Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working for the US military are trying to leave the war-torn country ahead of President Biden’s September 11th deadline to withdraw remaining US forces from Afghanistan, but some may get left behind.

"We have a duty and a moral responsibility to protect them from the Taliban and al-Qaida, if we do not give them special immigrant visas, they will be left behind and be slaughtered by the enemy."  McCaul and Ryan Crocker, President Obama's ambassador to Afghanistan wrote in the New York Times: "The Taliban view them as traitors: Since 2014, there have been at least 300 targeted killings of people who worked with us. Many more will die if the administration doesn’t take immediate steps to speed up the process to get them out safely." Congress is getting impatient. "They're being hunted down right now as we speak, they are reaching out to me, these interpreters, in a panic," said Cong Mike Waltz (R-FL), a former Green Beret, who served multiple tours in Afghanistan.