Posted on 08/16/2021 11:46:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Afghan activists, journalists and advocates for women’s rights scrambled to identify escape routes Sunday as international civil society organizations intensified a chaotic effort to evacuate local allies under threat following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
The stunningly swift collapse of the Afghan state injected a sense of desperation into a month-long effort by outside aid groups and religious and advocacy organizations to secure visas, flights or any kind of way out for Afghans seen as likely militant targets.
Human rights organizations in recent days have sent the State Department flurries of emails with spreadsheets laying out the identities and personal details of thousands of Afghans who do not qualify for the priority visa consideration already announced by the Biden administration but whose lives are believed to be in jeopardy.
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I do not remember international human rights organizations accompanying the Allied armed forces in World War II.
They should not worry—the State Department is processing their paperwork...
In the embassy...
Oops...the State Department is processing some of the paperwork at the Kabul airport in a hangar...without Internet access...with hard-copy files...
Oops...the State Department just realized they cannot contact any of these people to inform them their paperwork has been approved because all telephone and other communications is down...
Oops...the Taliban is not accepting US State Department paperwork anyway...
Oops.
Heh, heh.
Biden is going to keep doing things that baffle all persons with a brain.
He will continue to entrance the same idiots that voted for him.
Impeach Biden!
Why not just hand over the lists of people to the Taliban? Biden told us they are reasonable people.
I don’t recall my grandfather saying any of them being with his unit on Omaha Beach
International human rights organizations scramble to get local allies out of Afghanistan
HOW with the taliban now controlling the civilian part of the airport and also controlling the borders??????
Which is actually good cause we don’t need more animals here!
They are going to smuggle the folks out inside camels...
;-)
Now THAT demonstrates who violates rights. Even the leftist orgs are scrambling to get out of a Moslem state.
International human rights organizations are about to take a very big Hit
I remember the Red Cross saying how wonderfully the North Vietnamese army was treating our POWs.
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