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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny Chance That Any Of Our Allies Can Aid The U.S. In Airlifting Afghans Out Of The Country?....
Certainly the U.S. has allies. I would think that these allies have transport planes that can be utilized to aid in getting the people out of danger in Afghanistan.
Why aren't we asking them for help? Why aren't they volunteering to help us in this mission?
I would think if any of them were in a similar situation - that the U.S. would come to their aid. Shouldn't it work the other way around as well?
PortTack
(32,762 posts)global1
(25,242 posts)It would certainly end this critical evacuation situation much faster and get these people to safety.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)In some cases though, if they tried to use chartered civilian aircraft they weren't being allowed to land by US military air controllers. This might have been squared away.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)It's just that in the US news no other countries exist except the US, the ones we're "helping" and our "enemies".
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/08/afghanistan-new-zealand-defence-force-deployment-en-route-to-middle-east-with-twice-the-amount-of-troops.html
triron
(22,001 posts)withdrawal'.
Worried2020
(444 posts).
Canada's government will not openly criticize the antics of the US and it's MIC in the Middle East, but I think most of us regular folk highly disapprove of what the US is doing globally.
We live beside the most aggressive nation in the World, and with more nukes than any other country as well.
We might just be dumb Canucks, but we're not dumb enuf to go to a gunfight with knives . . . or snowballs
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)staff and their own afghanis helpers out of harms' way
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)makes your think they are not??
global1
(25,242 posts)Disaffected
(4,554 posts)US media and all....
JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)There is new life in the sleepy hilltop village of Roccaraso, a hamlet known for its sweeping views and nearby ski hills east of Rome. This town of just 1,600 permanent residents dates back to 975 A.D., but it was wiped off the map by German troops who hoped to use its vantage point to stage an attack on Rome during World War II. Now it has a new incarnation with hundreds of Italys Afghan helpers evacuated from Kabul settling into the military base that rose from the ruins of the second world war. A temporary mosque punctuates the cultural shift.
But as idyllic as it is, the peaceful place has already drawn scorn from Italys right wing politicians who say they will not tolerate a wave of Muslim migrants inundating largely Christian Europe, just as they saidat the height of the Syrian war in 2015 when more than 1 million people from Syria, Afghanistan and sub-Saharan Africa poured into European countries. Those who come in by military flights have to be accepted, but it is already numbingly clear that anyone else will not be welcome. Matteo Salvini of Italys popular rightwing Lega tweeted Wednesday, Humanitarian corridors for women and children in danger certainly yes. Doors open for thousands of men, including potential terrorists, absolutely not.
The first of the Afghan translators and medical staffmen and women alikewho worked with the Italian Defense contingent in Afghanistan arrived in late June as part of Italys now-abandoned tiered plan to bring out the most vulnerable of its collaborators in small groups. The rest, who are arriving hastily shoved on packed Italian military flights via Kuwait this week after the fall of Kabul on Sunday, will be taken there to quarantine against COVID before settling permanently. The Italian government is hyper-protective of them, fearful that even in the relative safety of Europe, those who collaborated with the American-led 20-year war could be targeted by rogue hitmen among Italys substantial migrant community. We are taking no chances, base commander Alessandro Pantaleo said. They need to be protected even on Italian soil.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/afghans-escape-taliban-to-quaint-italian-townonly-to-face-far-right-wrath?utm_source=web_push
maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)Wonder why? Can't be that this isn't easy and there are unforeseen circumstances. Has to be all Joe Biden's fault...
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crickets
(25,969 posts)https://www.reuters.com/world/evacuations-afghanistan-by-country-2021-08-18/
Includes update on numbers evacuated by the US, as well as future numbers expected. 16 countries in addition to the US and EU are listed, some with links to further information. Though some countries have evacuated numbers in the hundreds or thousands, others have only evacuated a handful so far. Not all countries listed show future plans for evacuations.