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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    To be fair, this picture had nothing to do with Afghanis coming to the US. Here's the original picture from 2018.

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    here's the link to the article: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/afg...-dondu/1120255

    Now, more than ever, I think it's important to not participating with propaganda, even if it agrees with our side.

    That being said, I believe that most of the Afghanis who worked with the military were men. I'm not sure we were all that helpful in getting their families out, although they might have worked with the other humanitarian groups who were coordinating with the military.
    Someone slipped me a media mickey! I agree 100%, there is no need to exaggerate any claims or participate in rage culture.

    BTW, the reason we see so many outrage type stories in the media is that they are designed to sway the undecided, force an emotional opinion, a propaganda trick, I typically try to avoid the rage type stuff as it is just another tactic, deployed like you said by both sides. The thing is though it is a false construct, the left/right paradigm, they just want us screaming at each other instead of focusing on THEM, for the most part a uni-party.

    When these "refugees" are found to be radicals, both parties will line up to take away our liberty. That's how this stuff works, whatever they are pointing at, it's best to look a bit further down the road.

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as "brides" or otherwise sexually abused.

    U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the "wives" of much older men. While child marriage is not uncommon in Afghanistan, the U.S. has strict policies against human trafficking that include prosecutions for offenders and sanctions for countries that don't crack down on it.

    One internal document seen by The Associated Press says the State Department has sought "urgent guidance" from other agencies after purported child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Another document, described to the AP by officials familiar with it, says Afghan girls at a transit site in Abu Dhabi have alleged they have been raped by older men they were forced to marry in order to escape Afghanistan.

    The State Department had no immediate comment on the documents or the veracity of the details in them. Officials say that they take all such allegations seriously but that many of them are anecdotal and difficult to prove, particularly amid the crush of Afghan evacuees at multiple locations in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

    An Aug. 27 situation report sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad as well as military command centers in Florida points to potential issues involving young girls and older men, some of whom claim to have more than one wife at Fort McCoy, a sprawling 60,000-acre (243-square-kilometer) Army base in Wisconsin. Relevant portions of the document, titled "Afghanistan Task Force SitRep No. 63," were obtained by the AP.

    "Intake staff at Fort McCoy reported multiple cases of minor females who presented as 'married' to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families," the document says. "Department of State has requested urgent guidance."

    There was no immediate indication from the military or from the departments of homeland security and health and human services, which run the facility, that such guidance had been received.

    At the same time, U.S. officials in the United Arab Emirates have expressed similar concerns, sending a diplomatic cable to Washington warning that some young Afghan girls had been forced into marriages in order to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.
    Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking

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