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International human rights organizations scramble to get local allies out of Afghanistan
Washington Post ^ | August 15, 2021 | Missy Ryan and Kareem Fahim

Posted on 08/16/2021 11:46:21 AM PDT by C19fan

Afghan activists, journalists and advocates for women’s rights scrambled to identify escape routes Sunday as international civil society organizations intensified a chaotic effort to evacuate local allies under threat following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.

The stunningly swift collapse of the Afghan state injected a sense of desperation into a month-long effort by outside aid groups and religious and advocacy organizations to secure visas, flights or any kind of way out for Afghans seen as likely militant targets.

Human rights organizations in recent days have sent the State Department flurries of emails with spreadsheets laying out the identities and personal details of thousands of Afghans who do not qualify for the priority visa consideration already announced by the Biden administration but whose lives are believed to be in jeopardy.

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And one wonders why we lost this war.
1 posted on 08/16/2021 11:46:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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I do not remember international human rights organizations accompanying the Allied armed forces in World War II.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 11:47:39 AM PDT by C19fan
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Translation: "Burn all your rainbow flags and cover your heads with diapers."
3 posted on 08/16/2021 11:49:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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They should not worry—the State Department is processing their paperwork...

In the embassy...

Oops...the State Department is processing some of the paperwork at the Kabul airport in a hangar...without Internet access...with hard-copy files...

Oops...the State Department just realized they cannot contact any of these people to inform them their paperwork has been approved because all telephone and other communications is down...

Oops...the Taliban is not accepting US State Department paperwork anyway...

Oops.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 11:49:28 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Heh, heh.

Biden is going to keep doing things that baffle all persons with a brain.

He will continue to entrance the same idiots that voted for him.

Impeach Biden!


5 posted on 08/16/2021 11:53:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Why not just hand over the lists of people to the Taliban? Biden told us they are reasonable people.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 11:54:24 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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I don’t recall my grandfather saying any of them being with his unit on Omaha Beach


7 posted on 08/16/2021 11:54:43 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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International human rights organizations scramble to get local allies out of Afghanistan

HOW with the taliban now controlling the civilian part of the airport and also controlling the borders??????

Which is actually good cause we don’t need more animals here!


8 posted on 08/16/2021 11:54:53 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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It's official: Biden AND Harris are too incompetent to lead this country. 😒😑🙄
9 posted on 08/16/2021 11:57:08 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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They are going to smuggle the folks out inside camels...

;-)


10 posted on 08/16/2021 12:11:03 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Now THAT demonstrates who violates rights. Even the leftist orgs are scrambling to get out of a Moslem state.


11 posted on 08/16/2021 12:11:12 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. )
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International human rights organizations are about to take a very big Hit


12 posted on 08/16/2021 12:57:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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I remember the Red Cross saying how wonderfully the North Vietnamese army was treating our POWs.


13 posted on 08/16/2021 1:08:55 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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