Strangled by red tape.... a familiar theme, sadly:
Why Canada failed to rescue 'a hell of a lot more' Afghans
While the Canadian government was able to evacuate more than 3,700 people from Kabul, the number should have been "a hell of a lot more," said retired major-general David Fraser, who commanded more than 2,000 NATO coalition troops during Operation Medusa in the Afghan province of Kandahar in 2006.
"The international world was surprised by the speed at which the Taliban took over. And [the Canadian government] applied the bureaucracy they had for normal operations," Fraser said.
Fraser, along with retired major-generals Denis Thompson and Dean Milner are
all volunteering to help extract Afghan interpreters from Afghanistan.