I have a friend saying we absolutely need to "let those folks who went to great personal risk to fight back against the Taliban into our country so they don't get killed for supporting us"

I don't know, it seems like we definitely shouldn't do that. Didn't those US backed Afghani troops do a bunch of heinous shit like run child rape rings? Also didn't they facilitate all the heroin smuggling coming out of Afghanistan?

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    ... so they don’t get killed for supporting us...

    I'm going to be shitty and say, they were never supporting the USA. They were taking advantage of a situation that presented itself either through painful necessity or pure opportunism. 'Course who knows if the Taliban will see it that way, so we might all get to watch a horrible situation continue to be horrible but in new and nightmarish ways.