To give a small sense of the nightmare unfolding for Afghans: weeks ago, my friend in Kabul, a female TV journalist and single mother of two, asked me to help her find info about legal routes out of the country. She's been threatened by the Taliban for several years, as a woman in the public eye, and these threats were intensifying. I tried to find info; there were very few options for visas or resettlement, despite western govs grandstanding about vulnerable women.