From Stark:
With our military engagement in Iraq at an end, thousands of Iraqi citizens who helped U.S. forces are in grave danger–but few of them are likely to get refugee status here.
So says Kirk Johnson, a former U.S. construction coordinator in Iraq, writing in the New York Times.
As Johnson sees it, our fear of terrorism trumps any kind of generous immigration policy toward thousands of Iraqis who worked with U.S. military and civilian officials, and are already being targeted for reprisals.
It’s called hanging them out to dry, could this turn out to be O’s Bay of Pigs?
Only time will tell.
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Afy, between you and me, what in the world is going on?
One might imagine that those Iraqis who worked for us were trying to improve their country. That being said, why would they want to leave a country they had helped make better.
On the other hand, if the scenario is that they’d been working for the evil Satan, why have we been kidding ourselves that we’re helping to build a new democracy.
Finally, I would expect American intelligence to have a solid understanding of what these folks will face, when we leave. The question is, if it’s retribution they face, will we be willing to admit that?
(Thanks, BH, for cleaning up. Those posts were skeery.)