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Hillary Clinton confirms that she's been chartering planes to help rescue women and children in Afgh (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 OP
Good heavens, it makes me cry! hamsterjill Aug 2021 #1
Trump says he could have evacuated everyone from Afghanistan gratuitous Aug 2021 #2
TFG Plane has been parked for a long time and TFG lacks funds to fix it LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #6
Makes me proud to be a human being . .. Lovie777 Aug 2021 #3
I expect Mo Dowd and Maga Haberman to attack comradebillyboy Aug 2021 #4
We MUst Alert Andrea Me. Aug 2021 #5
No doubt.. Andrea Mitchell will still be Cha Aug 2021 #17
No kidding.. and that's a good way Cha Aug 2021 #15
Biden should have listened to Clinton, now and in May when she predicted this mess, including fall Hoyt Aug 2021 #7
Bless her. kacekwl Aug 2021 #8
Hooo, boy, yeah... :''' ( electric_blue68 Aug 2021 #9
Not all opportunities are missed. Many fine groups are Hortensis Aug 2021 #13
"Clinton's efforts to help Afghan women come as no surprise. ...the reality is Hortensis Aug 2021 #10
👍 Thanks for all the info electric_blue68 Aug 2021 #14
***Thank You Hillary***, and all the Govts, NGO's, and people .. electric_blue68 Aug 2021 #11
Rt TY.. Good on Hillary! Cha Aug 2021 #12
and TY - LMPV for the vid! 👍 electric_blue68 Aug 2021 #16
What a great soul she is. TY for this vid, LMPV Hekate Aug 2021 #18
the one that got away. she makes me proud LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #19

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
1. Good heavens, it makes me cry!
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 12:52 PM
Aug 2021

What could have been…versus the nightmare we all have had to live through!

I love this woman!!!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Trump says he could have evacuated everyone from Afghanistan
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 12:58 PM
Aug 2021

But his plane's in the shop, see, but he'd totally have gotten everyone out of Afghanistan, see, in a huge operation like nobody had ever seen, see, the biggest and best evacuation since his Great Hamberder Evacuation of 2019, see, nobody wants to get those people out more than he does, see, they're always coming up to him with tears in their eyes, see, and telling him thank you sir for all the people you would have evacuated except your plane's in the shop, see, nobody could believe how many people he could have saved, see.

Cha

(296,883 posts)
17. No doubt.. Andrea Mitchell will still be
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 05:38 PM
Aug 2021

hand wringing about ".. but what about her emails"

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. Biden should have listened to Clinton, now and in May when she predicted this mess, including fall
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 01:13 PM
Aug 2021

of Afghan government and takeover by Taliban.


Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Not all opportunities are missed. Many fine groups are
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 05:32 PM
Aug 2021

accepting donations to help people in trouble inside and outside Afghanistan. Not just money, either.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. "Clinton's efforts to help Afghan women come as no surprise. ...the reality is
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 05:27 PM
Aug 2021
that not only was Clinton hush-hush about her efforts, but she has supported women's rights in Afghanistan prior to this current situation."


Of course. Her career has always focused on advancing the rights and wellbeing of women and children. When she was young, family law was the poor, despised-relation wing of the law, and with all the big doors open for her to Wall Street, SCOTUS, she chose women and children.

During a United Nations (UN) meeting last year, which was sponsored by the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan and led by the Afghanistan Mission to the UN, Clinton emphasized the role of Afghan women and the importance of “encouraging women’s participation,” noting that it “is not only the right thing to do; it is the strategic and necessary thing to do for peace, prosperity and security.”

“It is clear that Afghan women are rightly afraid not just for their rights and the Constitution that was written to protect them, but literally afraid that the gains they have made with all of our help will be washed away in a rush to achieve a peace that will not hold anyway. This is not just morally wrong. This is dangerous.” ...

Clinton had warned what the humanitarian consequences of a withdrawal from Afghanistan would be following the two decades the U.S. spent in the country. ... “This is what we call a wicked problem. There are consequences both foreseen and unintended of staying and of leaving,” she told CNN in May. Clinton noted that the U.S. was facing “two huge consequences” of withdrawal: the threat from the Taliban and the number of refugees the situation would likely create as a result./div]

electric_blue68

(14,818 posts)
11. ***Thank You Hillary***, and all the Govts, NGO's, and people ..
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 05:29 PM
Aug 2021

making this happen!
At least more Women, Girls, and their families will be safe!

(teary eyed)

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