We have been thinking about all those people in Afghanistan who put their lives on the line by serving as translators, intelligence, and simply guides. They did so on the promise that they’d get visas out of the country, most of them to the United States, some to India and other partner nations, but in every case, somewhere safe.

Those people are already Americans by our definition, putting their lives on the line for the United States. But now that it is time to pay the bill and bring these people “home” and out of Afghanistan, the usual people on the right are doing their usual fear mongering. This is but one example:

Tucker: "If history is any guide, and it’s always a guide, we'll see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood. And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So first we invade & then we're invaded." pic.twitter.com/J10BFRXEnL

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) August 17, 2021

Well, Nicolle Wallace happens to be our favorite analyst and not just because she looks like the Nicole that owns this site, though perhaps the two are as smart as each other. Wallace was not putting up with the xenophobia and Islamophobia put out by the Fox hosts. Nicolle reiterated what we’ve been saying for two days. Our concerns were for the girls who’d never been under Taliban rule and the people that helped us, from Mediaite:

These are people that had to make a choice. So far away from here, so far away from the cozy climate-controlled studios at Fox News headquarters, in Afghanistan. They had to choose between America and their country, and the Taliban, and they chose us, from all the way over there. The notion that their sort of horrific fearmongering and racism doesn’t carve out the men and women in Afghanistan who kept our soldiers alive for two decades is a new level of reprehensible.

Wallace noted at one point she has seen “a couple of folks on Fox trying to argue the points that both of you are making, that this is what we owe to the people that literally kept our soldiers alive,” but questioned whether “any of those voices will prevail.”

As we said above, these people are more American than Laura and Tucker, and it makes us sick.

We want to reiterate Nicolle’s message and say that it would be an abomination to leave those people behind in Afghanistan. It is almost as bad demonizing them before they even get here for having a different religion and being “refugees.” There cannot possibly be more than 100,000 to begin with. America is big enough to absorb these people with welcome arms and not scare poor Tucker and Laura.

Nicolle Wallace blasts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham for their racist fearmongering over Afghani refugees pic.twitter.com/2cDn5k6znP

— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) August 18, 2021

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