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So if Bidan wanted to change the "perception", it means whatever the perception was at that moment was bad. For Bidan, anyway.
"I'd rather save my ass than LBJ's face", was a popular protest chant back in the day.
Bidan here was trying to cover his incompetent ass here, at the cost of US citizens being made to think they had time for an orderly evacuation.
The fucking Afghans on the first flights out knew exactly what the real situation was, but US citizens didn't, perhaps.
Have to look hard here at State telling Embassy personnel to make sure any US citizens got pure bullshit if they asked, while Afghans knew exactly what was happening via word of mouth from local speakers.
US citizens in Afg didn't have the luxury of trying to save their own ass, because they didn't get the skinny about Bidan needing to save face.
People Bidan doesn't want to evacuate are those who know what actually went down, could be.