Please get our friends out of Afghanistan

Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, Congress people John Larson, Joe Courtney, Rosa DeLauro, Jim Himes and Jahana Hayes, all members of the Democratic Party: I hope this letter motivates you to act. Withdrawing from Afghanistan is a political decision and may or may not be the right one. But pulling out and abandoning the Afghans who assisted us as interpreters, interrogators, guides, informants and de facto soldiers is unconscionable. If our elected officials believe that once the Taliban take control, they will permit these individuals who helped us to simply go about their business, they are lying to the American public. These people trusted the United States when we told them we were bringing democracy to their region. We have a responsibility to extract them from Afghanistan. Please act now.

Joseph Oddie, Wallingford