LindyAF
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You're right, I was trying to sound sarcastic but it didn't really carry well. I also though there still might be a fair chance it was Taliban members attacking without approval of their own higher-ups, or ISIS-K members who are in the Taliban, etc. Ultimately I don't really think it matters. As soon as we aren't there and they can't come here, they lose any capacity to hurt us.
As I said before - including the "American citizens" who are members of the Taliban? Because getting all "American citizens" out is going to almost certainly going to include taking in actual members of the Taliban. Think about it - how many actual Americans do you think are taking a vacation to Afghanistan, when even months ago most of the country was under Taliban control (Taliban expanded control to include most of the country in 2019-2020 - what we're seeing now is just the city falling), and even if the US government overestimated how long the puppet government would last, their figures were like 6-12 months.
With the exception of government personnel, the "American citizens" stuck in Afghanistan right now are afghanis, who retained substantial ties to the country and think of themselves as afghanis. Some of them are likely Taliban, almost certainly including some who traveled to afghanistan to fight for the Taliban (as many "western national" middle-easterners did for ISIS). Additionally IIRC US government documents published by the Washington Post in 2019 show that towards the tail end of the conflict, afghanis living in America (some of which have American citizenship) realized how lucrative the corruption in Afghanistan could be. To be honest, I think anyone who traveled to Afghanistan to get in on the grift made their own bed.
