reasonable people

 I don't think we know in what order people are being taken out of Afghanistan. As a matter of fact I think more soldiers are going in.  That airport is the last little bit of Afghanistan that we hold and our intention is to get all Americans out, and the last I heard the Taliban was letting Americans into the airport.

A more difficult problem is getting out the Afghanis who worked for us who the Taliban thinks of as collaborators.  Yesterday I heard they weren't letting them into the airport,  but just now I heard that they expect most of them to get into the airport.  The Taliban says they will allow this, but who knows.  The Taliban right now is acting pretty responsibly, and it is in their best interests to do so, but again we don't know if their words mean anything.

And then there are the women.  We supported a corrupt government who did a lot of shitty things, but one good thing we did was get women treated a lot better.  That is likely all going to go down the tubes now.

I didn't get a chance to look up the Samaritans properly, but I know there were a lot of Jewish factions around the time of Jesus's birth, a lot of ferment, and then seventy years later the Romans came in and razed Jerusalem to the ground.  The Romans were pretty reasonable people in their fashion, but they did not cotton to rebellion.