Afghan All-Girls Robotics Team Tells US Woman to Stop Taking Credit for Rescue

Shows how savvy Qatar’s propaganda operation is. They deftly use intersectionality to invert the real power relationship in the discussion. Ordinarily, a fabulously wealthy principality attacking a random woman in Oklahoma would come across as bullying.

The real story seems to be that Reneau helped by making the girl’s plight go viral and working a personal connection at the US embassy in Qatar: https://www.wsj.com/articles/oklahoma-woman-to-the-kabul-res... (“Mrs. Reneau had met the girls, ages 16 to 18, at a 2019 Humans to Mars summit in Washington while they were on a visit for a robotics competition in the U.S… In Qatar a former roommate of hers now working at the U.S. Embassy stayed up all night to process the paperwork needed to get the girls out. The government of Qatar sent a plane and flew the girls out.”).

The Qatari government obviously did the hard work of sending the plane to get the girls. But a sovereign state complaining that some well-meaning lady is taking too much credit for her role in the rescue is extremely petty.