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Mr. President, leave no American behind in Afghanistan

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The situation in Afghanistan is worsening and it's time for President Joe Biden to do everything within his power to get Americans out. 

Today we're leading the newsletter and a call to action by the Paste BN Editorial Board. 

Biden's duty: Rescue all Americans and our allies in Afghanistan

ByThe Editorial Board

There are moments in American history when the hopes of a nation turn on the next critical move a president makes.

Dwight Eisenhower's decision in 1957 to federalize the Arkansas National Guard so Black teenagers, the Little Rock Nine, could survive a trip to school was one such instance. John F. Kennedy's deft handling of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, which prevented a nuclear war, was another. As was George W. Bush's success in rallying the nation from atop the rubble of 9/11.

It's now Joe Biden's turn.

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I recruited Afghans to help the U.S. government. Now I feel deep guilt.

By Jeff Le

I was startled by this message from one of my local hires, just after I completed my final civilian stint working in Afghanistan in 2014. We had worked together at the height of the American troop surge on a U.S. government-funded economic development project called the Strategic Provincial Roads Program.

It would have been impossible to have built relationships with communities and stakeholders without her and my Afghan national team who worked tirelessly to help us build in-roads with some of the skeptical audiences that viewed the American presence as hostile to their way of life.

I would not have made it back safely without my staff’s insights and instincts to move us out of harm’s way. It’s an eternal debt.

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This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos.

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