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An Afghan Journalist’s Cri de Coeur

August 16, 2021 By Debbie Young

Secretary Anthony J. Blinken virtually meets with UN Secretary-General António Guterres from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2021. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]

“We could never have imagined and believed that this would happen. We could never imagine we could be betrayed so badly by the U.S. The feeling of betrayal … I dedicated my life to the [American] values,”

“There was a lot of promise, a lot of assurance. A lot of talk about values, a lot of talk about progress, about rights, about women’s rights, about freedom, about democracy. That all turned out to be hollow.

Had I known that this commitment was temporary, I wouldn’t have risked my life. … I don’t care if it’s the Trump administration or the Biden administration.

I believed in the U.S. But that turned out to be such a big mistake.”

Biden’s Saigon

From Secretary of State Antony Blinken, last June:

“Whatever happens in Afghanistan, if there is a significant deterioration in security, that could well happen. We’ve discussed this before. I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.”

President Joe Biden, 8 June:

“The Taliban is not the south—the North Vietnamese army. They’re not—they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability.

There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”

Bret Stephens Reports in the NYT on the Fall of Afghanistan:

“This is happening on Joe Biden’s watch, at Biden’s insistence, against the advice of his senior military advisers and with Biden’s firm assurance to the American people that what has just come to pass wouldn’t come to pass.”

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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