Five years after the Abbey Gate bombing killed thirteen American service members during the withdrawal from Kabul, the question of what the United States owes its Afghan allies remains largely unanswered. In a recent conversation on the Passion Struck podcast, former Navy SEAL officer Dan O'Shea returns to that obligation directly. The interpreters, fixers, and local partners who worked alongside American forces did so for principles, O'Shea argues, that most Americans have never had to defend at personal cost — freedom of expression, the protections of the Bill of Rights. Many went well beyond what was asked of them. The promise made in return came from the nation itself, through its politicians and its presidents, and O'Shea's position is that a promise at that level does not expire with a change of administration or the end of a war.