The Afghan War’s ‘Boat People’

With the war’s likely end, a flood of refugees will seek refuge in the West

By: David Brown

Forty-six years after the last helicopter lifted off the last roof in Saigon and the bloody US intervention in Vietnam ceased, America's war in Afghanistan drags toward its unsuccessful, ugly end. President Joe Biden has no good options, only choices that are more or less bad.

Understandably, most Americans, and particularly the progressi…