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“The Taliban have assassinated 15 women’s rights activists in Balkh, (Afghanistan).” February 4, 2022.
In 2010, then-Vice President Biden said he did not care about Afghan women. To Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Biden insisted:
“‘I am not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women’s rights.’ (Biden’s son Beau had recently been deployed to Iraq for a year.) When Holbrooke asked about the obligation to people who had trusted the U.S. government, Biden said: ‘F*** that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam; Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.’”
Packer is not insisting that “human rights” are always the only grounds for committing troops, but it didn’t explain Biden’ hardness, the combativeness. Questions about Afghanistan and its people made Biden rear up and dig in.
For a politician who made his name on empathy, Biden’s utter indifference to human suffering seems sociopathic. The disastrous way in which American troops were ordered to pull out left the most vulnerable behind, those targeted as prey by the Taliban.
This one is on you, President Biden. You have forever stained our honor and our standing in the world.
Comment:
This is the world that Biden wants – and that a majority of Americans (we are told) voted for. The world Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, the Clintons – and a majority of American voters? – want.
https://www.investigativeproject.org/9134/afghan-feminists-torture-murdered-president-biden