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The White House is promising to evacuate an Afghan interpreter who helped rescue President Biden from a snowstorm when Biden was a Senator. He is one of thousands left behind that also include an estimated 200 Americans.  The challenge is no one seems to know how to do that in a country that has been left behind and whose airports are closed.  The administration has back channels it can use to talk to the Taliban but that is no guarantee the Taliban will cooperate.  The best the interpreter can do for the time being is hide and hope.  The US' reputation among the nations will rest on what it does for those left behind.  If they are abandoned, the US will never live it down and will be seen as an untrustworthy partner in diplomacy.  We might forget: Others won't.