Nearly two years after Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, there are 150,000 Afghans like Omar who put their lives at risk to work with the U.S. government, but are still waiting for their SIVs. Though the SIV process was supposed to provide an escape route for our Afghan allies, that process was “chaos incarnate,” said Tom Kasza, the executive director of the 1208 Foundation, which helps former Afghan allies obtain their visas.

And yet the woman in charge of the SIV Taskforce during the fiasco is getting a promotion. Last week, the White House nominated Tracey Jacobson, 59, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq. The last time Biden talked publicly about Jacobson was on August 14, 2021, the day before Kabul fell to the Taliban. The president said he was putting Jacobson “in charge of a whole-of-government effort to process, transport, and relocate Afghan Special Immigrant Visa applicants and other Afghan allies.” …

Simone Ledeen, a former Pentagon official who has worked with veteran groups to rescue Afghan allies since 2021, told The Free Press, “If the goal of the task force was to effectively help our Afghan allies become American citizens, then it has utterly failed.” She added, “It is shocking that someone with such a profound, demonstrated history of failure gets appointed to this job.”

[And let’s not forget the 14,000 Americans that Biden abandoned to the Taliban in his rush to bug out from Afghanistan. That number came from the State Department itself. No one involved in this craven, disgraceful, and despicable process should be still working at all in public office — and that includes Biden. The attempt to promote people involved in it demonstrates the complete lack of honor and integrity in this administration. — Ed]