Posted on 06/18/2021 7:12:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The people who bravely allied themselves with American efforts to lift Afghanistan out of medieval theocracy — estimated to be 170–180,000 in number — are about to learn that trusting America was a bad bet. Many will be condemned to torture and death as the reward for their service. You can be certain that the lesson will not be lost on those elsewhere in the world contemplating allying themselves with American goals for their countries.
Former congressman Steve Israel writes in The Hill:
Someone needs to speak for those who spoke for our troops.
I'm talking about the Afghan translators who provided critical support to U.S. and coalition forces during the two-decade war. These people took heroic risk in defying the Taliban, and if we withdraw our remaining forces without providing them refuge, that risk grows exponentially. Fatally.
One former translator told the New York Times, "I get phone calls from the Taliban saying, 'We will kill you' — they know who I am and that I worked for the Americans." A U.S. official deployed in Afghanistan told the American Legion that his translator "has a bounty on his head. The Taliban has no remorse. They will torture, rape and kill his kids, his wife, his mom and dad, brothers and sisters — whoever they can find — in front of him. Then they will behead him."
Announcing our troop withdrawals put a bounty on all their heads. With enough time to plan ahead, the safe evacuation of these people and their families could have been arranged. Now, with time short, worries about loyalty have been touted:
I realize that applicants must be fully vetted (although they presumably were when they were hired in Afghanistan). The risk of fraudulent submissions is real.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That’s why we need to stay out of other nation’s affairs. When a patriot is president, things go bad for the bad guys, but when a democrat is in charge, things go really bad for the good guys.
‘Hmong’.
We need more Ilhan Omars............./s
I don’t hate all Muslims. Just the ones who follow Muhammad’s many commands to lie, steal, rape, and kill.
I'd like a breakdown of this number and how they helped.
Send them to a Muslim country.
Not here.
But aren’t these people the “core” of America’s 20 year attempt to modernize Afghanistan? If they all pack up and leave, then the whole project is a guaranteed failure. Shouldn’t at least they try to stay to run the operation that has been built?
The Koranimals’ ideology is pure poison which has brought nothing but misery to Planet Earth. Change my mind.
The premise is backwards. Americans should never have trusted these Afghans.
RE: ‘Hmong’.
We need to think out of the box.
Hmongs did not just come to the USA. You see them in Europe, Australia and Canada.
Similarly, We can leverage our influence with our Muslim allies - UAE, Kuwait ( they owe us ), Oman, Qatar, etc. for them to accept a few thousand of our Afghan translators who are willing to move. They are Muslims and will fit in to Muslim culture more quickly than in the USA.
We can also try to influence our European allies to do the same.
We can also take a few as long as we vet them thoroughly.
The HORDES streaming across our Southern border certainly ate NOT VETTED at all.
RE: Americans should never have trusted these Afghans.
Did they betray us? Trust has to be earned. If it has been earned, why not?
RE: The HORDES streaming across our Southern border certainly ate NOT VETTED at all.
There’s the key word: VETTING.
There’s no reason we cannot do that.
And they let 1000s walk across the border daily…dumb evil rats…
America has a long history of stabbing its local allies in the back, you would be insane to every rely on the United States. Just ask the Cubans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Kurds, etc.
That’s right.
I separate the ones who just identify with being moslem because that’s how they were raised or their parents were etc, vs ones that diligently follow the evil Koran. Those ones are the ones who rape, kill, destroy and that’s all they’ve done since the beginning.
These people that helped western forces with base work, interpreting, and intelligence gathering took some big risks, but they also knew what the risks were. They can look at the past and see a track record (Vietnam pullout) and know what has happened to those who help in the past. They still chose to help. We can’t bring everyone home, if we were serious about helping them, we’d go scorched earth and destroy the enemy. Forget the hearts and minds, kill the enemy! That’s how you win! Too many bleeding hearts and politicians now, and of course the financial incentives of the poppy production and other drugs and minerals. Did we really want to help them, or were there ulterior motives?
If we were serious about going after perpetrators when 9/11 happened, we would of gone to Saudi Arabia. We can’t have that though, they’re an “ally”.
Hmmmm. One of my buddies can be seen ‘vetting’ around most weekends. He used to have a ‘replicobra’ for a while. :-}
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Condemning our faithful translators in Afghanistan to horrible deaths: The 180,000 people who bravely allied themselves with us are about to learn that trusting America was a bad bet
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as did the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Thais, Iraqis, and the list goes on ...
Agree.
Remember, there are no “good” Muslims.
So-called “good” Muslims are not Muslims at all. They don’t follow the directives of their own “holy” scriptures.
They don’t demonstrate in the streets by the thousands against the “bad” Muslims. You know, the beheaders, the rapists, the child rapists, the women beaters, the torturers, the anarchists.
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