Capstones
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Graduation Date
Fall 12-13-2024
Grading Professor
Nyier Abdou
Subject Concentration
International
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
Once the last U.S. flight left Afghanistan and the country effectively closed itself off, an estimated 78,000 Afghans SIV-eligible who weren’t able to make it onto an evacuation flight were stranded in a now-hostile country, waiting for the U.S. visa they had been promised for their service to come through. Now spread out as quasi-refugees throughout Pakistan and Iran or in hiding in Afghanistan, many are still waiting.
Three years after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and amid incoming-President Trump’s campaign promise to reinvestigate it, U.S. military veterans – out of a sense of loyalty those they served with – are still working to evacuate their Afghan allies who were not able to leave during the U.S. departure in 2021, working to keep a promise the United States government had made and failed to deliver on.
This dissonance is something that many veterans had to grapple with initially and are now working to change.
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Recommended Citation
Glaser, Hannah, "The Promises We Keep" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/764
