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A Generation of Afghan Professionals Flees Ahead of Taliban Advance
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7 July 2021 | Yaroslav Trofimov

Posted on 07/10/2021 9:03:11 PM PDT by BeauBo

Afghanistan’s professional class of men and women, part of a generation that came of age under the shield of the U.S. military, are weighing the danger of rapidly advancing Taliban forces. Many are packing their bags...

Long before President Biden announced the U.S. withdrawal in April, hundreds of thousands of Afghans had fled to Europe, Australia and the U.S. Now, many of the well-educated people who prospered in the new Afghanistan and hadn’t dreamed of leaving have also concluded that staying put is no longer an option.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; hazara; pashtun
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Massive brain drain (and Capital flight) will be likely effects of a Taliban takeover.

The ethnic Hazara minority community (descendants of the Mongols) has particularly prospered during the Pax Americana period, becoming skilled, educated and financially successful.

They can expect the worst oppression of all under the Taliban. Many of them are of the Shi'ite sect of Islam, reviled by Sunni extremists. The whole Hazara ethnicity is subject to long-running animosity from the largely ethnic Pashtun Taliban.

The Taliban had a saying about the other ethnicities in Afghaistan, the last time they came to power: "Uzbeks to Uzbekistan, Tajiks to Tajikistan, and Hazara to Goristan (the graveyard). We could possibly see large scale refugee movement of Hazara Shia into Iran, if the Taliban take over completely.

Many other skilled, educated and successful Afghans, including many Pashtuns, now have relatives in other Countries, including loads in wealthy Western Countries, with high standards of living. Afghan language (Dari, Pashto) broadcasts from these Countries have opened the eyes of most reasonably educated Afghans of the quality of life elsewhere (and how to get there).

It is going to be hard to keep those folks on the 14th century Tali-farm, after they have seen life in the big city.

1 posted on 07/10/2021 9:03:11 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Great..the next set of boat people...


2 posted on 07/10/2021 9:06:56 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: BeauBo

They can flee to someplace that isn’t here.

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3 posted on 07/10/2021 9:09:15 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: BeauBo

4 posted on 07/10/2021 9:17:53 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

And here comes the next wave of refugees to hit Europe.


5 posted on 07/10/2021 9:19:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BeauBo

Here they come....fantastic.


6 posted on 07/10/2021 9:23:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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I’m sure the Iranians and Turks are already collaborating to allow hundreds of thousands of Afghani refugees to cross to make their way into Europe, and ultimately the US.


7 posted on 07/10/2021 9:25:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lurker; ASOC

The last few years’ refugee influx into Europe (supposedly Syrian War refugees) included high numbers of Afghans.

Germany had a significant Afghan immigrant community before that wave, and they really swelled.

A lot of Afghan language music videos are produced there, and it is a dream for many Afghans to live the freedoms and fashionable lifestyles they see, of the beautiful people in those videos.

After Europe though, the USA is probably the most desired location.

Lots have family in other nice Countries, like Canada and Australia, and very many have connections (like education) throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union Republics in Central Asia. Turkey is another popular option. Pakistan and Iran absorbed millions during the Soviet occupation and Civil War periods.

The difference with this wave, will be the higher percentage of quality immigrants - better educated, skilled and wealthier (there will still also be a lot of lower quality inbreds and criminals as well) - but a lot of the cream of the crop could flee. It is going to hurt the Nation of Afghanistan more to lose this wave, even more than it did to generally lose a lot of young men on the last go round.


8 posted on 07/10/2021 9:25:40 PM PDT by BeauBo
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This is why we need to be careful who we have a war with. Every war results in a flood of immigration. Even a firefight like Blackhawk Down resulted in half of Mogadishu flooding into Minnesota and them getting one of the skinnies getting elected to Congress.

When America plays with a turd, we get crap on our national fingers.


9 posted on 07/10/2021 9:30:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: BeauBo

Had no idea. Thanks for your knowledgeable post.


10 posted on 07/10/2021 9:34:42 PM PDT by Cedar
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Woman could drive some of the exodus. They have plenty to fear from Taliban rule.

Burkhas, beatings and bullets.


11 posted on 07/10/2021 9:36:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
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This 22 year old data analyst in the Capital City (with characteristically Hazara eyefolds), faces pretty harsh prospects under a Taliban regime.


12 posted on 07/10/2021 9:45:24 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Biden, Harris, Blinken, Austin, the AF Academy leadership, W. Point leaders, the whole fucking US Navy leadership, the White House staff and the Democrats/teachers/media think that the 14th century was a fine time to be alive. They want others to live in it, not them.

They are like the people who thought that the Khmer Rouge was just a bunch of kids and would be nice to their parents, many of whom they had to personally kill and send the country back to Pol Pot’s “Year Zero”.

Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Castro, Pol Pot, Mao, Xi, etc. all approve of what is happening there and thank the American Left for making it possible.


13 posted on 07/10/2021 9:49:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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quote: Cop...."I spent the better part of 30 minutes this morning, on the shoulder of U54, speaking to a truck driver whom had been speeding. As soon as I walked up to the truck, I had a feeling it would not be a typical stop....

The man I had stopped identified himself as a born and raised Muslim from Afghanistan. He explained how he spent 7 years, 2012-2019, as a translator for the US Army and US Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, intercepting radio signals and relaying them to fighters in battle. He explained how the USA in his eyes is the greatest country in the world and the people in this country whom are trying to tear it apart, have no idea what it’s like to grow up where he did, a war torn country, where they would kill you for going against the grain.

He recognized the fact that I was a white law enforcement officer and that his skin was not the same as mine, but not one time did he ever feel unsafe to be stopped. He then asked for a picture and showed me hundreds of photos of himself on the battle field in the Middle East, with American soldiers. He was even more proud of his dog tags still around his neck and his military ID.

This gentleman left me with one final thing. He stated, “if only Americans could see this country from the outside looking in, all of this would stop”.

14 posted on 07/10/2021 9:59:44 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: BeauBo

Yawn. Women’s rights, especially for non-westerners, is not a conservative cause.


15 posted on 07/10/2021 10:16:54 PM PDT by Clemenza (Elon Musk: wealthiest welfare queen in history )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Can’t say I as an American or a westerner give a turd.


16 posted on 07/10/2021 10:18:21 PM PDT by Clemenza (Elon Musk: wealthiest welfare queen in history )
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To: caww

My Afghan translator lived in my house for eight months when he emigrated, during which his son was born (while I was in Iraq). He is now a full US citizen, and proud to be.

Now a hard working suburban homeowner, he served with assorted US forces for six years before getting a Special Immigrant Visa, and did several six month contracts afterward. He walked multi-day long foot patrols with Marines in Helmand, and confronted armed groups of over a hundred banditos, on behalf of a handful of Special Operators- more adventures than you could shake a stick at.

He saw a lot of hard duty and took a lot of personal risk - saw a lot of blood and death close up, and was personally targeted for death by the Taliban for collaborating with Americans - but kept the job for over two more years, spending hours each day taking different long routes between home and work, looking over his shoulder. Several of the other translators were eventually killed (3 that I had met).

Love the guy like a brother.


17 posted on 07/10/2021 10:40:38 PM PDT by BeauBo
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That’s sad for her. But I could post a photo of my daughter here. That girl in the photo has a psycho brother, a crazy uncle, etc. THAT nut will eventually hate us because after all it was US that ruined his country in his mind.
Then one day he sets off a bomb, shoots up a nightclub, or drives a rental truck down a sidewalk.

I care much more that my daughter never meets her crazy relative that way. She needs to go to Dubai, Morocco, or Jordan maybe.


18 posted on 07/10/2021 10:42:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: dfwgator

Pretty fair sized community in Germany, and I think 99-percent will simply aim for that region. I think it’s up to around 300,000 Afghans living in Germany today.


19 posted on 07/10/2021 10:51:24 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

We got a wave of Afghans when the Soviets invaded. A bunch settled in Northern California, and around DC.

Hamid Karzai’s family had a restaurant in Alexandria Virginia.


20 posted on 07/10/2021 11:09:09 PM PDT by BeauBo
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