If you listen to the MSM you would believe that we are supposed to bring every Afghan female to

[joetheman]

the US. I had to turn the morning shows off. Just can't take the distortions anymore.

[madaboutharry]

1. As if republicans would agree to 20 million women and girls

coming as refugees to America. They don’t care about the rights and autonomy of women who live here now. The hypocrisy and fake concern is sickening.

[Bettie]

7. I'd actually say that many of the Republicans here

would love to set up a US version of the Taliban and strip women and girls of their rights.

Well, they'd love to strip rights from everyone who isn't white and male and a "Christian" of the right wing variety.

[Docreed2003]

2. I'd wager half the talking heads couldn't find Afghanistan on a map

And the infuriating thing to me is this: up until this week, most didn't give two shits about Afghanistan or it's people. You can't be totally apathetic to a situation and then, when it doesn't turn out the way you had imagined in a storybook ending, feign outrage.

[True Blue American]

3. They are still showing what happened over the weekend.

[snowybirdie]

4. Can't watch

any of the cable news networks. You'd think this was the worst thing to befall the USA since 9/11! Overkill and Biden bashing 24/7. Do the righties really want to let thousands of Muslims in to this country without getting vetted? Hypocrites.

[samsingh]

5. they are highlighting a humanitarian disaster

[Treefrog]

6. What I'm hearing is that we utterly screwed the visa process for those we promised safety here.

I don’t see that they’re distorting that at all. Your op title is certainly a distortion however. I’ve heard no one say anything near that.

Would you rather they sugarcoat what is happening over there? Funny how it becomes “fake news” all of a sudden if we don’t like it. Turn off your tv if you can’t handle it, as you suggest, but hopefully someone somewhere will be taking steps to avoid a repeat of this in the future. This is about keeping promises to those whose help we needed and made use of. It’s a bad look not to keep promises.

Relax, the public has short memories and will have forgotten about this soon enough. President Biden will be fine.

[Beastly Boy]

8. I don't see how being a female in Afghanistan today is any less dangerous than

being a male translator for the Americans. If the latter are entitled to protection, so are the former. On the other hand, if you argue that we are not supposed to get as many female Afghans out as possible, we don't have any obligations for the latter either.