Posted on 10/31/2021 8:09:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington — Tens of thousands of Afghans who worked alongside the U.S. during two decades of war and reconstruction may be at high risk in Taliban-run Afghanistan, according to a group of international advocacy groups including Amnesty International, Oxfam, Freedom House and nearly 100 other organizations. In a letter to several senior U.S. officials, the groups expressed frustration with the Biden administration's failure to evacuate at-risk Afghans more quickly.
"We call on the Biden Administration to prioritize their safe evacuation before it is too late," the letter warned.
"Some of these individuals assisted U.S. and allied armed forces. Others worked for or alongside U.S.-based and funded organizations to secure women's rights, establish a free press, or provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance to their countrymen and women," the groups said. "All are now bound by their shared fear for their safety. If the White House does not move to evacuate them with haste, it will leave an indelible stain on this Administration's stated commitment to a foreign policy centered on human rights and its repeated commitments to support at-risk Afghans."
The letter, exclusively obtained by "Face the Nation," is dated October 28 and addressed to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and others. In it, the organizations urge the Biden administration to act now to evacuate and resettle a broader spectrum of at-risk Afghans, and to reveal its strategy for doing so.
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Sounds like Joe’s doing a great job
What about the Americans left behind?
Given the competence level of the administration what would they do?
My guess is that, to smooth over things with the Taliban, Biden would first share the locations of anyone in hiding … with the result being that by the time we get there they’ll all be dead.
No.
We were there for 20 years and wasted lives and billions. When we left they collapsed. They e had enough of our aid.
We’ve given them enough. Clearly, they prefer a tribal system of gov’t, so leave ‘em alone.
Question? Shouldn’t any and all AMERICANS have been evacuated FIRST? How about those bomb-sniffing dogs left behind? How about all of our billions of dollars in equipment? Why send us tens of thousands of rapists, wife beaters and child molesters FIRST?
Oh, never mind. This is such a cluster. And the Enemy Media gives the Socialist Democrats total and complete ‘cover’ for this whole mess! Grrrrr!
Well, not shite, Sherlock, but did they complain about Biden's cut and run policy? Don't remember it.
No, we have enough problems of our own.
Don’t need any more.
Psaki told us already the people want to stay over there. Why can't we get that simple truth through our heads?/S
Americans first!
After we fund the Haitians in Haiti (hurricanes and bad rulers) and the Haitians arriving in towns all over America, and the Central Americans crossing the border illegally by the tens of thousands through Mexico, and the American people who decided during the lockdowns that collecting government money at home was more enjoyable than getting a job again---------then why not fund the Afghanis and anyone else in the world who needs to be taken care of?/SARC
Along with Pat Buchanan, Michael Savage warned of the total destruction of America's culture by all this.
Savage: We cannot afford any more people getting into the American lifeboat. The lifeboat is full now and will sink.
Savage: We cannot afford any more people getting into the American lifeboat. The lifeboat is full now and will sink
Read it again.
RE: Shouldn’t Americans have been evacuated first and then last the military and weapons....And not rapists and terrorists....
You are using facts to bolster your argument again. You know the Dems hate when we do that.
That was 4 or 5 days ago.
Can't even see Afghanistan in the msm's rear view mirror.
Americans left behind should be a priority.
We really don’t need any more muslims.
So, No thank you, C'BS.
"We call on the Biden Administration to prioritize their safe evacuation before it is too late," the letter warned.
Obviously it was too late when Biden/his handlers ordered the abandonment. Biden is 100 percent responsible for and 100 percent in favor of the carnage going on now.
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