Posted on 08/29/2021 9:18:02 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
France and Britain plan to table an emergency UN security council resolution on Monday calling for the Taliban to back a civilian-run safe zone at Kabul airport that would allow the continued air evacuation of those who want to leave the country, the French president has said.
“What we are trying to do is to be able to organize targeted humanitarian operations for evacuations that will not take place through the military airport in Kabul,” Emmanuel Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
“It is about protecting these threatened Afghans and getting them out of the country in the coming days or weeks. We will see if this can be done through the capital’s civilian airport or through neighboring countries”.
He said such a deal would be a prerequisite for constructing a future western relationship with the Taliban.
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Yes they can !
But they prefer words and postures
Our government wants the troops here to use against the American people.
No Western government could survive such a decision.
Safe Zone.....
All safe zones in universities and high schools have coloring books and crayons or colored pencils, teddy bears, soft blankets and pillows and often puppies.
Is the United Nations going to guarantee those?
A hard hitting question I realize but otherwise, I say no dice for the deal.
Sounds like a conflation of epic movies 55 DAYS AT PEKING and KHARTOUM.
After the fall of Khartoum, it pulled the British back into the Sudan for another twenty years.
Cause terrorists always abide by international mandates. /
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