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Duncanpup
(12,930 posts)So sad
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Duncanpup
(12,930 posts)I was not doubting you just sad
The Blue Flower
(5,447 posts)They could have tried to defend their loved ones.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)sarisataka
(18,839 posts)Thought of joining together to oppose the Tailban...
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Easy choice, they'll take that all day long
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Watta ya want to stay there 20 more years?
Ahem ahem, hanging off the wheels of the Air Force jets was covered right there on page 22 of the "Orderly Withdrawal of US Forces and Personnel" memorandum of June 12, 2021, doncha know. All was known and expected, everything's fine. It's Cheney's fault, and the Afghan Army, that there are people literally hanging off the wheels of our departing airplanes. And Bush, Trump, and Pompeo. Ahem ahem ahem. Fire Milley! Ahem.
Sorry, had to get the phlegm out and talking points in.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)At least 3 have died falling from departing aircraft.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Clearly you are going to die if you hide in a wheel and the plane takes off.
marble falls
(57,397 posts)Watch Dan Rather's report, about 2minutes into the video. Watch it through.
jalan48
(13,905 posts)next to spread democracy?
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)We need living space into cooler climes
jalan48
(13,905 posts)The neo-cons can make lots of money on a venture like this while providing a more climate safe haven for their friends.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)As Taliban Advances, Europe Fears an Afghan Migration Crisis
By Jamie Dettmer
August 02, 2021 04:36 PM
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Greek authorities are reporting that Afghans now make up the largest share of asylum-seekers who manage to navigate the Aegean from Turkey. Austria last week announced it is to deploy additional soldiers to its borders with Slovenia and Hungary so as to increase the number of border guards by 40 percent. The countrys interior minister Karl Nehammer said at a news conference that EU migration policies have proven ineffective against irregular migrants, and he said Austrian immigration authorities have already apprehended 15,768 migrants attempting to cross illegally the Austrian border this year, compared to 21,700 for the whole of 2020.
In Austria we have one of the biggest Afghan communities in the whole of Europe, Nehammer said. It cannot be the case that Austria and Germany have to solve the Afghanistan problem for the EU, Nehammer added.
Despite the advance of the Taliban, European countries have been continuing with deportations of Afghan asylum-seekers only Finland, Sweden and Norway have announced temporary suspensions of forced returns to Afghanistan.
Turkey is already hosting anywhere from an estimated 200,000 to 600,000 Afghans and - unlike the more than three million Syrian refugees living in Turkey - they have few legal rights of protection and no access to public services. Turkish opposition parties have been seizing on migration as an issue to try to outmaneuver President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and last month jumped on remarks by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz that Turkey is a more suitable place for Afghans than his or other western European countries.
BannonsLiver
(16,531 posts)As they supposedly ran for their lives. I did see that today from Kabul.
But I agree, its an apt comparison on the whole.