Talk about sitting on the fence. What's happening is awful, but it would have happened either way. It's our, the US, fault for invading in the first place. Maybe we need to stop, think, and learn.

Considering the Afghanistan will probably be uninhabitable soon because of climate change anyway, am *totally* okay with us opening our doors to Afghani women and men as refugees. Not to mention it would be a wonderful infusion of culture for us.

You understand those who think we should have stayed? Why?

We've held their society back for decades by our invading & occupying them. We haven't stabilized them, only destabilize like the rest of our middle east foreign policy. So if you care about people, let them evolve and support them in other ways (non-authoritarian/militaristic).

Abject terror from whom? youtube.com/DdIOviCvaRI

With the amount of money taxpayers paid, we could have given each woman $200,000. We could have rescued families; we didn't. Someone could have helped; no one did. Who's glossing over that fact? We lost in every conceivable way--because failure was the intent.

They were already being terrorized by the Afghan govt during the US occupation. This isnt something that is just suddenly happening because the Taliban have control over the country again.

I have a feeling that the people ignoring the suffering of women and vulnerable people in Afghanistan under the guise of being anti-war would be singing a very different tune if they were the ones suffering in Afghanistan now.

This war had nothing to do with protecting the rights of women in Afghanistan.