Canada Abandons Its Afghan Allies

After being advised to wear read so IRCC officials could identify him, a hopeful Afghan evacuee wears a Roots jacket that he had been given years earlier by a Canadian solider.  

Kevin Newman, The Line: The people we left behind at the gas station  

Despite claims of "miraculous" progress, we are still failing to evacuate our people from Afghanistan 

In the age-old tradition of large lumbering bureaucracies and armies and reporter stake-outs, this was an excruciating weekend of “hurry up and wait.” Their only shelter in the dusty and brutal Afghan sun was the red, white and blue canopy of a self-serve gas bar. Maybe 10 families who had completed the path to Canadian citizenship were told by government of Canada text to come to this spot late Friday with the promise of a Canadian Armed Forces flight waiting on the nearby airport tarmac. 

Each family included an average of 10 people — so make it a hundred — told it was time to leave for Canada. Others followed, and pretty soon there were 500 Afghans at the gas station hoping for rescue. Some in the huge crowd were told to wear red to identify themselves on a list Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had compiled. One even wore a Roots Canada jacket a soldier had sent over to him years ago. But it didn’t matter. No one from Canada was there to meet them.  

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WNU Editor: This is what I call a clusterf__k.