Children, 46 years apart, trying to escape Saigon and Kabul, as western troops withdraw

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suggarstalk on August 15th, 2021 at 15:46 UTC »

Where are Bush's neocons and generals who were going to obliterate, shock & awe the Taliban after they sheltered Osama Ben Ladden? I want them to look at these scared kids and realize how useless and wasteful their bravado was. It is a perfect time to quote the lead neocon, Dick Cheney: "We will be seen as liberators".

shinobi500 on August 15th, 2021 at 15:53 UTC »

Heartbreaking

theofiel on August 15th, 2021 at 16:00 UTC »

What bothers me most is that there's nothing I can do about it. I can write a strongly worded letter to my government and the idiot politicians who thought some police training would be good enough... And that's it. These people are fucked and we're looking at it from the sidelines. Not even saving the people (interpreters for instance) that helped our troops while out there.

I write this from a Dutch perspective btw.