US ambassador accuses Blinken of leaving hundreds of Afghan women behind to die in botched evacuation
District of Columbia | September 1, 2021
Despite a catastrophic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and bureaucratic red tape hindering outside rescue efforts along the way, non-government groups have been and are still working to help bring U.S. citizens and stranded Afghan allies to safety.
Among those at greatest risk under Taliban rule are women, who make up roughly half the country’s population and were severely oppressed during the Islamist group’s previous time in power in the late 1990s, according to Ambassador Kelley Eckels Currie, the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues and now a member of the Vandenberg Coalition foreign policy think tank. “[The Taliban] are basically promising to treat them like a little less subhuman, essentially” she said … (Excerpts from Fox News)