Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws

Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by co_pilates on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:37AM (#27801655)

I don't know the answer to the overall mess there, but the USA should have, at the very least, offered to take these Afghani patriots and their families away to a safe place of their choosing. But who am I kidding, the USA barely takes care of their own soldiers, and has a history of abandoning the people of foreign countries that no longer hold interest.

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by yojo on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:59AM (#27801894)

There was a program in place to allow (some of) the Afghani helping the US to immigrate. It is just moving a lot slower than the troop withdrawal, leaving them to die.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1004991965/afghan-interpreter...

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by nate_meurer on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:02PM (#27802571)

We did the same damn thing last time when we fought a shadow war there against the soviets. Many historians credit America's abandonment of our Mujahideen allies with the rise of both the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by effingwewt on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:00AM (#27810960)

Shame. I kept thinking the US feels so different from when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. But maybe it hasn't, I have. Instead of being proud to be an American, all I've felt for years now, is shame. Shit like this is why.

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by dang on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:45AM (#27830665)

Please don't take HN threads further into political and nationalistic flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. It's not what this site is for.

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by dang on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:46AM (#27830669)

> I am sure there are a few 'good' people in Afghanistan.

If you post slurs to HN again we will ban you.

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by Amezarak on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:12PM (#27847085)

Dan, I honestly don't understand what the slur is, please tell me, but I will take your point that less politics is better.

When I put 'good' in quotes, if that's what you perceived as a slur, I simply meant that 'good' as perceived by Americans - Amercanized Afghans, which doesn't mean some kind objective good, since I don't think Americans conform to some objective good either. But if that was the issue, then clearly I made my point extremely poorly.

Sorry.

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Re:Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as ... by dang on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:50PM (#27851497)

Between that and "these are not people we want in our country" and other things you said, it snaps closely to the grid of blatant prejudice. If that's not what you intended to convey, please disambiguate your intent more clearly in the future—it doesn't communicate itself automatically.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

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