What Happenned To Women And Children First......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-afghans-pack-us-military-plane-in-desperate-effort-to-escape-the-taliban-12383469
I can see the odd one but these look mostly like blokes who should be defending their own country to me.

[Untitled]

there are lots of reasons why women are less likely to actually successfully escape situations like this than men... it is more dangerous for them to travel, they are more likely to have care obligations which make it less possible for them to up sticks, and men are more likely to have been hired by the coalition and therefore under more direct threat of death/torture. its very sad but that is reality.

I do not think it is up to us to say what they ought to be doing... i wouldn't be heading to battle in their situation and i'm not sure many of us would.

[roadman]

maybe you should invite the women and children over to your ivory tower you seem to know it all you would be able to protect them im sure and offer a sanctuary

[ToraToraTora]

....then there is the obvious one untitled, that in Islam women are only slightly higher up the chain than swine, you forgot that.

[Untitled]

afghanistan is an extremely sexist society yes.

[bednobs]

because women aren't stupid enough to cling on to a plane as it's taking off!

[ToraToraTora]

nobs, look at the picture, it's inside the plane! Can't see anyone clinging on.

[dave50]

Where is the meetoo lot demonstrating against sexism and evil sexual predators etc. Thought they would be all over this for the women in Afghanistan. Their silence is deafening.

[bednobs]

on the news last night, they showed people storming the airport, clambering on the outside of planes and people still clinging on when it was taking off (and falling to their deaths)
If it is as you say for women there - the majority of adult women wont experience any difference will they?

[ToraToraTora]

that's the funny thing dave, TROB etc scream blue murder at any sort of ism/phobia but Islam seems exempt, never been able to fathom that.

[ToraToraTora]

11:40, yes nobs, I'm talking about the picture in my link.

[roadman]

"Biden's team failed to plan for mass evacuation of Afghan human rights activists, women, and military translators who face death for working with Americans."

I feel so sorry for these people :( binden is not a wise person for ignoring this issue

[Gromit]

BRITISH DIPLOMATS FIRST !!!

The Foreign Officer quickly and efficiently spirited its Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Embassy and Consulate workers back to Blighty.

// the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, accusing the Foreign Office of evacuating diplomats while leaving soldiers and Ministry of Defence staff to handle the fallout of the Taliban takeover.

The frustrated minister told colleagues he believed there would be “a reckoning” for the Foreign Office after the crisis, sources told the Guardian.

He complained that diplomats had been “on the first plane out”, with MoD officials having to replace them and bear the brunt of processing resettlement claims for people trying to flee the Afghan capital. //

Well done the knobs.

[Peter Pedant]

er because they are like your mum TTT
at the bottom of the queue!

[Ellipsis]

The people on the plane reflect the people who made it to the airport. A few women and children, mainly men, quite possibly men who had aided the Americans or British in some way.

[Peter Pedant]

// MoD officials having to replace them //

er as tho embassies havent been over run before.....

well they have of course - and great damage was done ( america iran and the massacre of their contacts)
and Korea where Blake was turned

[Gromit]

PP

Do you remember the American Embassy in Tehran? They diligently shredded all it secret papers, only for the fanatical revolutionaries to sellotape them back together.

[wolf63]

The situation in Afghanistan is horrendous and there will be no solution until the males work out what century they are living in and that women are not in any way inferior to men.

I did like this article about the evacuation
https://tinyurl.com/jp8sx5s4

[Bobbisox1]

The majority of women and girls were ordered to stay in their homes, look at the paint being put on over the faces of women on windows of salons etc