Really ugly to see such aggressive apathy about the Afghan allies we’re leaving behind. You can have your views on the war or immigration and still recognize that many are regular people w/families who are going to die horribly because they trusted us.
Many of them bought the line we were selling about making their country better. Some risked their lives for our soldiers in battle. It’s not abstract, these are real people. There are networks of soldiers & Marines trying right now to evacuate Afghans who mean a lot to them.
Stop saying “they didn’t fight for their country.” Well over 100k of them were killed or wounded on our side. Their leadership abandoned them, and guess what… They’ll all have posts at the UN or the IMF by next year. That has nothing to do w/the normal people who took our word.
I’ve criticized our “invade the world, invite the world” strategy as much as anyone. Politics turns a lot of people callous, spiteful, and ugly, but you don’t have to be so proud of it.
This is totally fair. I’m not suggesting anyone take a specific position on the refugee question. But I don’t understand all these people who need the world to know how little they care about these people who are about to be murdered. It’s gross.
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