Tracey Jacobson Abandoned Our Afghan Allies. Now She’s Getting a Promotion.

Photo illustration by The Free Press, images via Getty, Tracey Jacobson image via U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia.
The woman who failed to rescue U.S. friends from the Taliban is Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Iraq.
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When America was retreating from its 20-year-war in Afghanistan in August 2021, Omar was one of the Afghan allies President Joe Biden promised to rescue. He had performed a perilous task for the U.S. military: identifying and neutralizing roadside mines embedded by the Taliban insurgency.
Omar was supposed to receive a special immigrant visa, or SIV, wh…
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