The United States only managed to evacuate 7,000 out of the 120,000 Afghans and their family members who were eligible for U.S. visas because they worked for occupation forces. But we did manage to bring out hundreds of cats and dogs.
Ethics Gone to the Dogs
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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So add another 113,000 persons to those (>330 million) duped by the promise and promises of the exceptionally treacherous USA. As, perhaps unintentionally, revealed by a now almost clichéd, mass-murderous, US Nobel “Peace” Prize winner:
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
— Henry Kissinger
Totally shameful. You should only have evacuated the dogs!
So, the U.S. failed to take care of tens of thousands of foreigners, many of whom have limited employment capacities? And anyone is surprised? The paperwork backlog was intentional. What was expected, no doubt, was that a peaceful withdrawal would have allowed the U.S. to ignore the paperwork over the next few years until everyone just kind of gave up on trying to emigrate. God help the 7,000 who did get here.
I hear the first priority for evacuees was the guys we hired for death squads to take out suspected Taliban operatives–many of whom were probably like that US aid worker who got taken out in a drone strike while loading jugs of water in his car.–“US intelligence” had gotten the word he was Taliban and saw the water jugs as bombs…..a decision our government was defending, last I heard….