The Latest: Pentagon says 7,000 civilians taken out of Kabul

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The European Union said Thursday that 106 staff members of EU delegations and their families had safely left Afghanistan but said that some 300 still remained behind.
46% : "We demand simplification of the immigration procedure, a faster reunion of families, a broad and long-term resettling of Afghan families seeking asylum, and the end of all expulsions toward Afghanistan," Henry Masson, the president of La Cimade, a French NGO advocating for undocumented people, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
38% : Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told BBC radio that the suggested phone call would not have made "any difference whatsoever" given the Afghan government was "melting away quicker than ice."

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