All things Middle East related

sdskinsfan2001 · 08-26-2021, 01:52 AM

It's pretty crazy how many non-active military Americans currently live or are in Afghanistan now. There are some students from my neck of the woods that are there right now. Scary stuff.

nonniey · 08-26-2021, 01:55 AM

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It's pretty crazy how many non-active military Americans currently live or are in Afghanistan now. There are some students from my neck of the woods that are there right now. Scary stuff.

Lots of NGOs operate/operated there as well as non military Government agencies (USAID).

sdskinsfan2001 · 08-26-2021, 02:01 AM

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Lots of NGOs operate/operated there as well as non military Government agencies (USAID).

I was definitely naive to all of these people that are there.

BaltimoreSkins · 08-26-2021, 08:00 AM

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It's pretty crazy how many non-active military Americans currently live or are in Afghanistan now. There are some students from my neck of the woods that are there right now. Scary stuff.

There were plenty of times over the last 20 years where we had more military contractors than we had US soldiers. The worst was during the Obama years. He ramped up spending and it was more $ than the Afghanistan country could hold for infrastructure etc, so it trickled over to funding more contractors. I have a good interview about it I'll share when I get a chance.

SunnySide · 08-26-2021, 02:57 PM

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It's pretty crazy how many non-active military Americans currently live or are in Afghanistan now. There are some students from my neck of the woods that are there right now. Scary stuff.

Refugee families from Afghanistan living in SD decided to go back to Afghanistan and visit family in May and June.

If youre refugees who fled your country bc of safety reasons and political turmoil ... why would you go back to visit?

Reading the first few articles, I envisioned some PE teacher chaperone trapped with 15 students on some school trip.

Its really Afghanistan refugess who came to American then decided to go back for whatever poorly thought out reason.

Giantone · 08-27-2021, 12:19 PM

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There are some students from my neck of the woods that are there right now. Scary stuff.

Why, knowing the US is withdrawing , why would you go there?

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