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If you signal that every time a country has serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch and other groups can come in and say, ‘You should sanction your revenue,’ it’s going to create business headaches for them all over the world.
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The airlift was happening sooner than anybody anticipated, while many people predicted the collapse, imminent collapse, I think the speed took almost everybody, perhaps even the Taliban, by surprise.
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What was going on was the typical chaos of a bureaucracy under the strain of immense crisis, people at checkpoints hadn't slept well in days, couldn't read the names properly or read the first name as the last name.
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There’ll be cases like that and there’ll be hard truths about what to do in those cases, if it was a mistake on the United States’ part, you’ve got to eat it.
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Planes took off with empty seats repeatedly, so it’s not the case that it was like ‘oh, we’re turning you away because there’s not enough space.’ That was not what was going on.
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With the fall of Kabul on Aug. 15, it just turned into a massive hysteria over there with people trying to get out.
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Some will be able to navigate Taliban checkpoints to obtain access to airports, which may have a limited number of commercial or chartered flights in the future, but a lot of these people are going to flee over land and present themselves in various places bordering Afghanistan.
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We've interviewed refugees in Greece who have walked across snowcapped mountains, they've swam across rivers. They’ve swam across the Aegean [Sea] to Greek islands.
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The Taliban represent an abusive authority, a brutal regime that has killed people and repressed and plans to subjugate the human rights of millions of people in coming years, but none of that will matter to those people if they're dead because of famine.
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It's a very perilous journey, but for many people, they have no choice, stay and be killed by the Taliban or flee and try to make a new life somewhere else.
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It's easy to say, ‘Oh, we should just cut off the Taliban, cut off this country from the world,’ but we're fast approaching a point where we need to recognize that despite being a loathsome, rights-abusing regime, we're going to have to do business with these folks if we want to help the people we care about and help the Afghans who have gotten stuck behind.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
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