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Fiendish Thingy

(15,690 posts) Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:08 PM Aug 2021

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A Closer Look: as US withdraws from Afghanistan, refugees must be evacuated immediately

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A Closer Look: as US withdraws from Afghanistan, refugees must be evacuated immediately (Original Post) Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 OP

I have advise for those refugees... Omnipresent Aug 2021 #1

Hard to outrun bullets, don't you think? Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 #2

How does that work? The whole country? Women and children? Dream Girl Aug 2021 #3

Canada is taking 20,000, the US should take at least 200,000 Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 #4

They didn't have a clue this day was coming? Omnipresent Aug 2021 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2021 #7

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Omnipresent

(5,735 posts)

1. I have advise for those refugees...

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Original post)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:13 PM

Aug 2021

Put one foot in front of the other, and repeat till you find yourself in Pakistan.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,690 posts)

2. Hard to outrun bullets, don't you think?

Reply to Omnipresent (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:21 PM

Aug 2021

Evacuation is the moral obligation of the US.

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)

3. How does that work? The whole country? Women and children?

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:24 PM

Aug 2021

Fiendish Thingy

(15,690 posts)

4. Canada is taking 20,000, the US should take at least 200,000

Reply to Dream Girl (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:29 PM

Aug 2021

Take everyone and their families who helped the US, and those at risk of being targeted by the Taliban: women and girls who have been taught to read, LGBT, minority religions, and others.

It’s the right thing to do,

Omnipresent

(5,735 posts)

5. They didn't have a clue this day was coming?

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:31 PM

Aug 2021

How many of the thousands, if not an easy million people there, would you like the US to just evacuate or whisk away, lickity split?

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