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Afghan pullout, refugee crisis and the test of Americaâs moral leadership
President Bidenâs heart may be in the right place; but the environment on Capitol Hill is anything but conducive to refugees and asylum seekers; any mass exodus from Afghanistan will need special programs of approval even if people are taken to third countries for processing
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The United States is expected to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by September 2021. File Photo: PTI
One of the things candidate Joseph Biden had been hammering away in the run up to the November 3, 2020 Presidential election was the crisis of credibility of the United States, especially a gaping hole in the moral leadership of a country that had always paid sufficient attention to the sufferings of the disadvantaged people. And President Biden will soon find his first test by way of large swaths of people trying to come to America soon after the last boots have left a small country called Afghanistan. The first crying call has already been sounded out by Afghan translators and language teachers pleading not to be left behind knowing full well what is in store.