This piece and Will's previous articles on this subject hit home. I was standing next to two U.S. Servicemen who were killed on 5 Dec 2010 by a Haqqani directed attack. Their families deserve justice and Siarjuddun's perceived or actual immunity is yet another in a long list of gut punches over the past 14 years. Just another reminder that the war is over for everone except for those who served, families of the fallen, and true patriots who actually give a shit. Thank you for your words and your continued pursuit for justice!
Great article that connects the dots on moral injury to a specific hugely significant event. Thanks for pushing the information out so people can understand.
Will, as you know the suffering of Afghani people is intense. Perhaps there are no mass killings by the Taliban large enough to draw media attention in the US. But people are perishing of mental illness, impoverishment, and near total isolation in their homes and from the world under the violent totalitarian oppression of the Taliban.
I know personally of a young woman who has not been outdoors since the Afghan government fell, for fear of capture and forced marriage to a Taliban man. Her father, mother, and youngest siblings made it to the US in the initial evacuation. She and her other siblings are awaiting visas. Her anguish, and my helplessness, horrify me.
Why is the plight of the ordinary people left behind so little known, so long after our country's disgraceful abandonment of them? Why is there so little public pressure for an expansion and speed-up of the visa program? Let's at least get families unified here. What can be done to help? Contacting senators and House members achieves nothing.
Kate / Will,
This piece and Will's previous articles on this subject hit home. I was standing next to two U.S. Servicemen who were killed on 5 Dec 2010 by a Haqqani directed attack. Their families deserve justice and Siarjuddun's perceived or actual immunity is yet another in a long list of gut punches over the past 14 years. Just another reminder that the war is over for everone except for those who served, families of the fallen, and true patriots who actually give a shit. Thank you for your words and your continued pursuit for justice!
Great article that connects the dots on moral injury to a specific hugely significant event. Thanks for pushing the information out so people can understand.
Will, as you know the suffering of Afghani people is intense. Perhaps there are no mass killings by the Taliban large enough to draw media attention in the US. But people are perishing of mental illness, impoverishment, and near total isolation in their homes and from the world under the violent totalitarian oppression of the Taliban.
I know personally of a young woman who has not been outdoors since the Afghan government fell, for fear of capture and forced marriage to a Taliban man. Her father, mother, and youngest siblings made it to the US in the initial evacuation. She and her other siblings are awaiting visas. Her anguish, and my helplessness, horrify me.
Why is the plight of the ordinary people left behind so little known, so long after our country's disgraceful abandonment of them? Why is there so little public pressure for an expansion and speed-up of the visa program? Let's at least get families unified here. What can be done to help? Contacting senators and House members achieves nothing.
I, too, want to know how to put the pressure ON for people to be helped out of there.
What steps can people here take or support to move this higher on our national priority list — like put human decency first for a change …