This is how the U.S. is treating Afghans who helped us
8/14/23
from The Washington Post,
8/14/23:
My 9-year-old daughter still remembers August 2021 as a “horrible time.” After the fall of Kabul that month, my husband and I, both Air Force officers who had served in Afghanistan, found ourselves pulled into a complex, unofficial operation to help evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan allies. There were endless sleepless nights spent frantically sending messages over Signal and compiling enormous spreadsheets of passenger manifests. We worked as if it were a matter of life and death — because it was. Two years later, those long days are a memory for me. But for the hundreds of thousands of our allies still left behind, the horrors continue.
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