Full offence but countries like America, Australia, the UK, etc, should all be – not only accepting as many refugees from Afghanistan as need be, but helping refugees get the fuck out of Afghanistan.
We’re the ones who spent twenty years fucking up their country and murdering their civilians “forfun.” And then we just collectively drop everything and say “the Taliban can have you.”
Fuck that noise. It’s disgusting. There are untold numbers of people fleeing the Taliban right now, across the whole country, with all of them – but especially women and anyone who might be accused of helping the old government/foreign armies – fearing for their lives.
The Western countries that have spent two decades fucking up Afghanistan have a duty of fucking care to the civilians left behind.
Breaking news as of 16 August 2021 is that the Afghan president and all other government officials have fled Kabul. The “last stronghold” that was predicted to “hold out against the Taliban for three months” has fallen within a week, and most civilians in that city and others that have been overrun are now fearing for their lives.
We have a basic moral obligation to help them in any way possible. That includes taking unreserved numbers of refugees that are refugees in large part due to the actions of the “heroic west.”
As the 15th century ended, Europeans were still mostly in the dark about the Eastern world. Early travelers like Marco Polo had given the West tidbits of information, but these accounts were too highly colored and fragmentary to provide a true picture of Asia. The first really accurate and detailed reports came out in the 1500s from four remarkable travelers - Tomé Pires, Garcia de Orta, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, and Ralph Fitch.
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