Posted on 08/13/2021 6:52:33 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am getting reports from Afghans on the ground that 5,000 Taliban fighters are in Logar waiting for the order to march into Kabul. There are another few thousand in Surobi, less than 50 miles from Kabul. I cannot verify this information but it is clear that at this stage Kabul will more likely fall in days or at best a few weeks. There are many women activists, journalists, and human rights defenders at high risk. They are high on Taliban kill lists.
There is an assumption that the Taliban are going to be humane because we have been talking to the 15 negotiators in Doha. But the Taliban on the ground have been targeting and killing women, journalists, judges, and civil servants in provinces where security forces and people have peacefully surrendered, and there are daily reports of atrocities taking place. We must judge the Taliban by their actions rather than our own illusions of their rehabilitation.
There are hundreds if not thousands of people in Kabul who have been openly criticizing and advocating against the Taliban for years. They are at risk of being massacred. …
… I don't wish to over-dramatize matters, but the signs point to a Srebrenica or Rwanda moment.
Will we do the right thing this time?
I am appealing to you to act on your conscience and use your position and voice to hold the administration accountable for preventing atrocities in Afghanistan and to make the case to the public about what is at risk.
America is at its best when it acts from a place of principle and moral courage. As an Afghan once said to me, "Without principles, America is just another country."
Best,
Rina Amiri
(Excerpt) Read more at cic.nyu.edu ...
Act urgently? Are they going to fly to Kabul, grab a rifle and stand a post?
We’re having our Rwanda moment here in this country. It seems to be very popular.
CIC = Center on International Cooperation
Biden has blood on his hands.
Rwanda? Nah. They used machetes. I do expect some ritual beheading. As for the women? Rape is in your future. Probably too late to get out now.
She’s right.
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War. The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under the command of Ratko Mladić.
Not the young pretty ones. They're on another list
Vietnam…..Afghanistan, rinse and repeat! Sad but true.
Bidet has the mass media to cover for him.
He can hide in his basement and pretend the slaughter never happened.
The Military Industrial Complex wanted to keep our presence there for money, because they would have gotten out by now if they didn’t accomplish much with the Afghans securing their country.
20 years of this and now we have to act urgently. 🙄
It would have made a lot more sense to evacuate all non military personnel first. Then remove the military and destroy all the airfields and heavy equipment.
We developed a few ‘pretty cool’ systems to help the war fighter as well - but Biden has withdrawn them already..
I watched a PBS news segment on the war tonight. It was pretty grim - and no life lines for Biden. They did everything but call him out.
We have a Democratic administration.
They are idiots.
They are also callous sociopaths who would feed their own children to the wolves.
This woman’s cries will be in vain, along with the tragic pleas of the thousands who will be slaughtered in the weeks to come.
Biden’s fault.
We’ll see who wins the pool — when will he be booted
“ Vietnam…..Afghanistan, rinse and repeat! Sad but true.”
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TOTALLY different. The South Vietnamese fought for over two years after we pulled out the last of our forces. The DemocRATS in Congress starved the South Vietnamese of resources leaving them substantially depleted of ammunition, fuel, replacement parts (anyone in the military will tell you of their importance).
The Afghans were left with plenty of resources both civilian and military and a steady flow of finances. The Afghans are largely simply refusing to fight. WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW A SINGLE AFGHAN (other than the interpreters who fought with us) “refugee” in. They will merely merge with the Muslim fifth columnists already in our midst.
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