

Did the US throw Afghans under the bus? https://www.jpost.com/opinion/did-the-us-throw-afghans-under-the-bus-opinion-67818
The American lack of concern for what happens after the US evacuates obviously extends to Afghans as well, who will be impacted more than anyone else. When the Taliban took control of Kabul, they promised that women would have rights and education “within Sharia law” – yet only hours later, a woman was shot for not wearing a hijab. Even before the Taliban took Kabul, there were reports of the Taliban demanding cities turn over lists of all their unmarried girls and women in order to be married off to Taliban fighters. Women have already been fired from their places of work, and have disappeared within days from public life. Some 20 years of progress for 18 million Afghan women, gone in an instant because of a lack of foresight and planning from the president of the United States.