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UN warns of humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, urges neighbors to keep borders open
https://nypost.com ^ | August 13, 2021 | By Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 08/13/2021 11:31:41 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

The United Nations refugee agency on Friday called on Afghanistan’s neighbors to keep their borders open to avert a humanitarian disaster as the Taliban continue the offensive to retake the country.

“An inability to seek safety may risk innumerable civilian lives. UNHCR stands ready to help national authorities scale up humanitarian responses as needed,” a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told a briefing in Geneva.

A spokesperson for the World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization, said food shortages in the war-torn country are “quite dire” and worsening, adding that the situation had all the hallmarks of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Thousands of displaced people have been arriving in Kabul, seeing the capital as their last safe refuge, according to the BBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afganistan; refugees

1 posted on 08/13/2021 11:31:41 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Going back to the Dark Ages. Heard yesterday woman who expose their hair are getting burnt alive.


2 posted on 08/13/2021 11:33:58 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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3 posted on 08/13/2021 11:35:00 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The UN , I thought they were closed down


4 posted on 08/13/2021 11:35:59 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RomanSoldier19

The TaliBidens .. Dems love ‘em.

They share a common agenda. Total control.

They destroy&kill people&civilizations who only seek freedom and liberty.

Where’s the love in that?


5 posted on 08/13/2021 11:37:26 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!!)
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To: butlerweave

Wonder if our strategy is a big rope-a-dope. We start leaving, send 3000 troops in to “assist in Americans leaving”, and then the Taliban expose themselves, and our military slaughters them.


6 posted on 08/13/2021 11:41:48 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: RomanSoldier19

Iran, China, and the -stans. Tough neighborhood.


7 posted on 08/13/2021 11:44:55 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Here comes the flood of refugees into the West

Works like clockwork after every intervention we make into every 3rd world shytehole


8 posted on 08/13/2021 11:46:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: mware; butlerweave; NormsRevenge
If corrupt puffed-up fools running the Pentagon today had been there after World War II they would have left the emperor in place, admired the warrior culture and taught women to mock Geisha cultur4e and fight for gay rights.

Ten years after that the Japanese would have nuked us back.

The fact we can't win against a stone age culture tells us more about us than about them.

9 posted on 08/13/2021 11:47:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Looks like the deep state is creating a crisis to take attention away form vote investigation.


10 posted on 08/13/2021 11:47:28 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: butlerweave

Let the UN deal with it. Their blue helmets make great targets.


11 posted on 08/13/2021 11:48:59 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: RomanSoldier19

It won’t be an Islamic Utopia?


12 posted on 08/13/2021 11:56:07 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Taliban obviously have a plan for complete takeover of Afghanistan and are executing it to perfection. The idea of shared control was not in the cards as our side suggested - Taliban cards.

Our Intel agencies (CIA, NSA, military) have failed again - miserably.


13 posted on 08/13/2021 11:56:37 AM PDT by elpadre ( )
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The Brits are all the more glad they voted for Brexit. Lost in the 24/7 news is that the #1 reason they voted for it was because of rapefugees.

Of course, that means nothing if their leaders keep letting rapefugees sail across the English Channel.

14 posted on 08/13/2021 11:57:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: mware
Heard yesterday woman who expose their hair are getting burnt alive.

They really enjoy abusing women, don't they?

15 posted on 08/13/2021 11:58:41 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: RomanSoldier19

Disallow any immigration - if they can’t muster up the backbone to fight for their own country, why does that become my problem?


16 posted on 08/13/2021 12:11:03 PM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamelHo are not my leaders.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Mark my word. China will wind up there backing every anti-
Western tenet. That will spill over into nations next door.

“The Taliban want to do what? Oh, okay, here’s a pallet of
cash.”

Pakistan’s nukes are on the line. Think China would like
that on India’s doorstep?

People will soon realize why we were there. It will be too
late.


17 posted on 08/13/2021 12:22:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: GOPJ

“The fact we can’t win against a stone age culture tells us more about us than about them.”

We didn’t go in to win. That would have involved killing the enemy. My Marine buddy spent several tours there. With no rancor he gives numerous examples of why we can’t possibly win. The Marines taught the natives to fight. Gave them weapons. Warned them when the Taliban were on the way. Stood back ready to assist...and watched the men go out to meet them, lay down their weapons and full-ground grovel bow to them. My Marine buddy said it was a waste of blood and treasure.


18 posted on 08/13/2021 12:23:30 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Th)
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