Ryan Crocker

3 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Ryan Crocker |Michael Baumgartner

In war, trust is everything – especially the trust between American forces, American diplomats and the local allies who risked everything to stand with us. For nearly two decades in Afghanistan, the U.S. government routinely employed Afghan advisors, interpreters and logisticians to work beside us to make America’s mission possible. The world watched as the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal left allies behind to face Taliban retribution. In the weeks that followed, the threat grew.