And the female students of the Marefat School, which teaches grade 12 students humanitarian values in a poor, Shiite area in Kabul. “The Taliban are taking names, and they will start taking vengeance on women and young people, teachers, and their families, who believed in US values. So it would have made much more strategic sense for the Biden team to change the narrative. “All those Afghan women I personally encouraged to step forward because we had their backs, what happens to them?” Crocker asked, in frustration. Will history record them as one more group of civilian allies abandoned to disaster by Americans when the going got too tough?

Source: The Star April 18, 2021 01:07 UTC