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September 22, 2023 10:50 AM Subscribe
A private US citizen was responsible for rescuing thousands of women from the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
In August 2021, in a calamity made inevitable by the Orange Menace's negotiations with terrorists, the US quickly withdrew its forces from Afghanistan as the NATO-backed government fell to the Taliban. Between 14 August and 31 August 2021, the US and its coalition partners evacuated more than 123,000 people.
The Taliban have since imposed rights-violating policies that have created huge barriers to women’s and girls’ health and education, curtailed freedom of movement, expression, and association, and deprived many of earned income. This was easily foreseen, of course, based on their past mistreatment of women.
One private US citizen formerly linked with The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security compiled and maintained a "kill List" of 1,500 Afghan woman and their families who could be targets of the Taliban once the United States left the country.
This wealthy citizen arranged hundreds of buses and called the emir of Qatar to ask him to accompany buses carrying the women through Taliban checkpoints.
She also called Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who remembered her family's work to protect Albanians in Kosovo in 1999, to ask to help house Afghan women.
She also called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a favor, while making it clear that she wasn’t advocating on behalf of the U.S. government.
She called an aide to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asking if she could board refugees on a military transport plane destined for Kyiv. This overstep earned her a stiff rebuke from the Biden administration, with which she formerly had a positive relationship.
"'What are you doing calling the Ukrainian government?,’ Jake Sullivan asked her,” Foer wrote, referring to President Biden’s national security adviser.
'‘Well,’ she responded. ‘I wouldn’t have to call, if you guys would,' Foer wrote.
Clinton then “assured” Sullivan she would coordinate with the Biden administration, though she had already made contact with other world leaders.
(post paraphrased from The Hill, from Franklin Foer's book The Last Politician)
In August 2021, in a calamity made inevitable by the Orange Menace's negotiations with terrorists, the US quickly withdrew its forces from Afghanistan as the NATO-backed government fell to the Taliban. Between 14 August and 31 August 2021, the US and its coalition partners evacuated more than 123,000 people.
The Taliban have since imposed rights-violating policies that have created huge barriers to women’s and girls’ health and education, curtailed freedom of movement, expression, and association, and deprived many of earned income. This was easily foreseen, of course, based on their past mistreatment of women.
One private US citizen formerly linked with The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security compiled and maintained a "kill List" of 1,500 Afghan woman and their families who could be targets of the Taliban once the United States left the country.
This wealthy citizen arranged hundreds of buses and called the emir of Qatar to ask him to accompany buses carrying the women through Taliban checkpoints.
She also called Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who remembered her family's work to protect Albanians in Kosovo in 1999, to ask to help house Afghan women.
She also called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a favor, while making it clear that she wasn’t advocating on behalf of the U.S. government.
She called an aide to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asking if she could board refugees on a military transport plane destined for Kyiv. This overstep earned her a stiff rebuke from the Biden administration, with which she formerly had a positive relationship.
"'What are you doing calling the Ukrainian government?,’ Jake Sullivan asked her,” Foer wrote, referring to President Biden’s national security adviser.
'‘Well,’ she responded. ‘I wouldn’t have to call, if you guys would,' Foer wrote.
Clinton then “assured” Sullivan she would coordinate with the Biden administration, though she had already made contact with other world leaders.
(post paraphrased from The Hill, from Franklin Foer's book The Last Politician)
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Is the idea we read all 2,720,000 articles your post links to before we discuss something?
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:01 AM on September 22, 2023
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:01 AM on September 22, 2023
Sorry, the first link should have gone here. I had emailed the mods already.
posted by Dashy at 11:14 AM on September 22, 2023
posted by Dashy at 11:14 AM on September 22, 2023
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