British nationals board an RAF aircraft prior to an evacuation to Cyprus<\/p>\n
Afghanistan was not a one-off. Leaving Americans behind enemy lines has become the new normal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Now the media is tentatively<\/a> pointing out<\/a> that most other countries, from the UK and France, to India and Italy are evacuating their people. America stands alone in disgracefully refusing to do so. And that\u2019s entirely on Biden.<\/p>\n Despite a number of nations evacuating their citizens, the US government has continued to say that the conditions are not conducive to a civilian evacuation. All US government personnel were evacuated in a military operation this weekend. US officials have said they are in \u201cclose communication\u201d with US citizens and \u201cactively facilitating\u201d their departure from Sudan.<\/p>\n Is this an impeachable offense? If not, maybe it ought to be.<\/p>\n Exhausted and terrified, Americans and other foreign nationals have been struggling to escape the fighting in Sudan, cramming into crowded port terminals, squeezing onto filthy buses and begging strangers for a ride to an airport in a desperate bid to reach safety\u2026<\/p>\n By contrast, Britain, France and Germany have sent airplanes to Sudan to help evacuate their citizens, and other countries, such as India, have organized convoys to Port Sudan on the Red Sea.<\/p>\n An American engineer said he had been searching fruitlessly for four days for a ride, after the tires of his car were shot out, in an effort to leave the country with his four U.S. citizen siblings, including two adolescent sisters, and his elderly British mother. Artillery and missile fire have been exploding around them, and the girls were scared, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cNo one wants to come to my area. \u2026 The shooting is heavy and next to us there is looting,\u201d said the engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his privacy. \u201cThey could at least give us guidelines or instructions on the safe routes to take and a pickup point.\u201d<\/p>\n A few Americans have made it onto flights run by European allies out of an airfield 13 miles north of Khartoum. The French, for instance, have taken at least 500 people of 41 nationalities. Photographs from the airfield show burly European soldiers in body armor guarding exhausted families.<\/p>\n America is back!\u00a0Finally, the adults are in charge. And that means abandoning Americans while leaving it to the French to evacuate them.<\/p>\n