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As the US surrender unfolds, it's heartbreaking to see what's happening/going to happen to the women and girls in Afghanistan. Basically, outright surrender is what it is. About a year or so ago I went to a public presentation by ambassador Ryan Crocker who gave his opinion on plans for a US pullout and he said that it will amount to nothing short of a US surrender. He knows the people over there and he knew the Taliban was just biding their time knowing that eventually the US would leave. Blinken's statement of we accomplished what we set out for and that this is not like a Vietnam surrender is laughable. The Taliban is going to celebrate their victory by shaming the US and beheading their domestic enemies (and probably a few reporters here and there).
Basically, a generation of females with the freedom of education and employment are having that ripped away and to be turned into virtual slaves.
20 years of training and new military equipment and the Afghan army falls like a deck of cards. I agree with the sentiment that had we stayed 1 year, 5 years or 20 more years before pulling out, the outcome would be the same. However, we would have at least allowed a 2nd generation of Afghan females to live unenslaved.
It's just tragic and I don't know what the answer is. Ignore it until the next 9/11 comes along? I know one thing the US should do. We should be evacuating without hesitation any individual who has remotely assisted the US in this mission. This is based not only upon a moral responsibility but also to save some semblance of being respectful partner to the citizenry of future nations we plan to invade.
And the pictures of the Taliban in the Afghan president's office eerily similar to the traitors in the Capitol on 1/6/2021.
Basically, a generation of females with the freedom of education and employment are having that ripped away and to be turned into virtual slaves.
20 years of training and new military equipment and the Afghan army falls like a deck of cards. I agree with the sentiment that had we stayed 1 year, 5 years or 20 more years before pulling out, the outcome would be the same. However, we would have at least allowed a 2nd generation of Afghan females to live unenslaved.
It's just tragic and I don't know what the answer is. Ignore it until the next 9/11 comes along? I know one thing the US should do. We should be evacuating without hesitation any individual who has remotely assisted the US in this mission. This is based not only upon a moral responsibility but also to save some semblance of being respectful partner to the citizenry of future nations we plan to invade.
And the pictures of the Taliban in the Afghan president's office eerily similar to the traitors in the Capitol on 1/6/2021.
