Betrayal of Afghan Interpreters

I won't comment too much on the politics of this as it's almost certainly going to incite a flame war, but I'd like to acknowledge that regardless of whether you think this was the right decision or not, we are now living with the consequences of that, which includes the grim reality that people that helped the United States are stranded in a hostile environment as a result of our policies. Some will survive/escape, many will die.

The Hazara will be persecuted. Women will be delegated back to being second class citizens. Some of these women who've never known what that was like, where they've gone to university and held real jobs and weren't just objects for child bearing, will go back to being derided and having no rights. Afghan men perhaps didn't do enough to fight for this, but the women certainly can't be held accountable here, but they'll be the ones to suffer the most.

I'm deeply saddened by what's happened and I can only hope that anyone that wants to get out can.

This is horrible, America didn't support our veterans of this boondoggle, now we're allowing this? Seriously, I'm no longer proud of the time I served in our military, I bear it as a mark of shame now because after these 20 years it seems my service helped to do more harm than good. Shameful. This country should immediately send in rescuers, I don't care if it takes all of the special forces, we need to extract these people now.

I'll be writing everyone I know, all my reps in government. Everyone should do the same.

What a disaster. We could have pulled out after the "Mission Accomplished" banner and had the same result. Instead, 20 years later, we have 2,400 Americans dead, 20,000 wounded, $3+ Trillion spent, and the unanswered question of what exactly they sacrificed so much for.

I have to wonder if the intent was genuinely ever to take them. This has been an ongoing issue for a long time and nothing was done.

Similar chaos happened during Bush to Obama transition and now in Afghanistan. I assume government transition for a country which invaded yours is always a red flag.

This is the opposite of what the UK is doing with home secret Priti Patel allowing Afghans that helped during the war into UK protection

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-afghan-interpreters-...

Much to what the opposition propoganda will have you believe that she's deporting people which is the opposite of the truth with deportations down to record lows since labour days

Reminder that the first confirmed beheading was three weeks ago (https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/translator-who-worked-for-us-a...). The idea that the exit plan would continue without any pause or consideration was unconscionable.