'They will slaughter us': Afghans who worked with US beg for visas as troop withdrawal looms

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – In 2019, Omid Mahmoodi was working as a linguist for a U.S. Army brigade in Kabul when he overheard an Afghan soldier badmouthing the American forces.

Mahmoodi quickly alerted an Army sergeant, and the Afghan soldier was expelled from service.

"I have no doubt in my mind that Omid's actions that day saved an American soldier's life," his supervisor, Army Capt. Jonathan Flancher, wrote in a letter supporting Mahmoodi's application for a U.S. visa.

Mahmoodi is now among thousands of Afghans desperately seeking to leave their homeland as the Biden administration withdraws the last 2,500 American troops in the coming months. These Afghans fear that once U.S. forces are gone, the Taliban will sweep back into power and target them as traitors.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/they-will-slaughter-us-afghans-who-worked-with-us-beg-for-visas-as-troop-withdrawal-looms/ar-BB1gyT1L

[Grins]

1. I was never so ashamed of being an American...

...as when Trump abandoned the Kurds. This is worse! FAR worse. FAR, FAR WORSE! No people should ever trust us again.

Charter a couple 747’s and go pick them and their family members up - and get them out of there! You can sort it all out later.

Biden can do it with a phone call. A damn phone call! Make me proud of you, Joe....

[femmedem]

2. Agreed. We owe them this.

And to deny them this would be monstrous.

[Baked Potato]

3. They need to be helped because it's the right thing to do. Also,

Russia will be able to say the USA can’t be trusted and will abandon you.