The Ultimate Betrayal - Donald Trump's Death Sentence
Donald Trump is trying to send Nine Thousand Afghan Refugees, currently under protective status, back to Afghanistan. Afghans who fought alongside brave American soldiers in Afghanistan.
If it wasn’t enough that Donald Trump has turned tail on allies, friends and neighbors who have had our backs for 80 years, the Trump administration has now announced it will rescind our promise to provide a safe harbor for Afghans who helped our soldiers during the conflict in Afghanistan.
No matter how you feel, or felt, about the US involvement in Afghanistan, you must acknowledge that a lot of American boys and girls made it home alive because there was an Afghan involved who could interpret for them or warn them of a cultural oversight that might land them in the path of harm.
The Taliban have made it clear that people who aided Americans should be killed where they can be found, so Donald Trump not only orchestrated the shameful plan and schedule for our withdrawal from Afghanistan, now he’s planning to deliver those heroes into Taliban hands for execution.
Now, before you accuse me of overlooking Joe Biden’s part in the Afghan withdrawal, let me acknowledge that Biden was also culpable. Not only for the botched withdrawal, but also for not simply ignoring the Trump/Taliban agreement. After all Donald Trump caved in to the Taliban, besides, he never seems to be inclined toward honoring agreements made by his predecessors, so Biden should have gone his own way on ending the war, it can’t have been much worse than the Trump playbook.
So now it looks like the President and his MAGA brownshirts will try to betray our allies once again.
We could take a lesson from our friends to the North. Back in 1979 a joint covert rescue by the Canadian government and the CIA of six American diplomats was hatched to save six Americans who had evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, after the Iranian Revolution.
Islamist students had captured most of the American embassy personnel, holding them hostage and demanding the return of the US-backed Shah for trial.
A daring and dangerous plan was conceived to smuggle the 6 out of the country as a “fake” Canadian film crew. The ruse worked but surely if the Iranians had discovered the Canadian deception at the time they would have likely been put to death.
The Democrats and the very few Republicans who still have an ounce of decency should take a stand here . . . as should “we the people”. We should pull out all the stops, hearings, hidings, civil disobedience, whatever it takes to peacefully prevent this travesty of justice.
Short of this, we should just give Steven Miller enough dynamite to blow up the Statue of Liberty and hope he miscalculates how long he should make the fuse.
Notes and Links
The Canadian Caper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper
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