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‘NO VETTING’

My driver got even more impassioned when he started talking about the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

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Amber Duke
Dec 08, 2025
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Hey y’all, welcome to a special edition of Unfit to Print.


‘NO VETTING’

I take a lot of Ubers during D.C. Christmas party season, and yet I rarely have a conversation with a driver as interesting as the one I had on Thursday evening.

My driver was from Afghanistan, and we got to chatting about the recent shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan refugee. Here’s what he told me…

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