The 300

That's the best estimate of how many Americans are likely to be left behind in Afghanistan, but no one knows for sure. Unofficially, about 117,000 people have been airlifted out of Afghanistan. The overwhelming majority of them are Afghans refugees, some without any paperwork at all, but we couldn't get every American out. 

The Biden Administration assures us that they have assurances from the Taliban that the radical Islamists will cooperate in getting any remaining Americans home in the days and weeks ahead. Seriously. 

We're now relying on the people we have been trying to eliminate for the past 20 years, the same people who have been killing us for the past 20 years, to get our fellow citizens home. The Pentagon and the State Department are at each other's throats over how the evacuation was handled. 

Hundreds of veterans and former special forces members organized massive, independent rescue operations because of the ineptness of our own government. Christian ministries like Samaritan's Purse were also involved. We may never know how many Americans they saved. 

One of the heroes running such an operation said he was contacted by someone very high up in the government, someone most Americans would recognize, privately asking if they could help get more people out. 

The Biden Administration claims to have a lot of leverage over the Taliban. It seems to me that they have a lot of leverage over us. They specialize in hostage taking. Why wouldn't they just use these 300 Americans as leverage? 

Meanwhile, U.S. forces carried out a drone strike Sunday preempting a second suicide attack on the Kabul airport, which is now being targeted by rocket attacks.