They helped the US fight the Taliban. Now Trump has left these Afghans stranded

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Source: The Independent

Sunday 09 February 2025 10:38 EST


They helped the U.S. military order airstrikes against Taliban and Islamic State fighters and worked as drivers and translators during America's longest war. They were set to start new lives in the United States. Then President Donald Trump issued executive orders that put an end to programs used to help Afghans get to safety in America. Now those same Afghans, who underwent a yearslong background check, find themselves in a state of limbo.

“I was shocked. I am still in shock because I have already waited four years for this process, to get out of this hell and to get to a safe place and live in peace and have a new beginning,” said Roshangar, one of the Afghans whose life was upended by Trump's action. Roshangar requested that The Associated Press only use his first name because he was afraid of Taliban reprisals.

He spoke in an interview from Afghanistan where he, his wife and son live in hiding, fearing punishment or even execution by the Taliban for his more than a decade-long partnership with American forces. Roshangar served as a legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force, helping U.S. officials review and eventually approve airstrike packages that were used against the Taliban and the Islamic State group from 2007 until the fall of Kabul, the Afghan capital, in 2021.

“This was an unexpected move from Mr. Trump and everything went wrong and against us and leave us in severe danger under the Taliban regime," he said. His family's experience is just one aspect of the fallout from Trump's orders, many of which were implemented without broad consultation with experts in the areas affected.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/taliban-afghanistan-donald-trump-soldiers-b2694947.html

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Meanwhile the GOP spent much of their last session doing hearings and hearings and hearings and investigations, investigations, investigations - alternating between the Bidens and a Benghazi-like obsession about the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Yet...

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1. Traitor Trump gonna traitor.

Good luck asking locals to help us in the future.

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2. Republicans were full of outrage over how the Afghanistan people were treated

in their Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Dec. 11, 2024. That was only 2 months ago and they seemed heartbroken
that these fine people who had supported and risked their lives for the USA were left behind. I watched the entire hearing and they were brutal toward Sec. Blinken. For that matter, so was the audience and most online comments. Blinken stated that the administration was still working every day to get people out including some US citizens who have family there. Now those efforts have stopped and the truth of their crocodile tears is exposed for all to see if one only looks.