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Hillary Clinton has been arranging charter flights out of Afghanistan for at-risk women, reports say
CaptSkippy · 26/08/2021 08:25
meditrina · 26/08/2021 08:30
The headline is over egging it a bit - article is much more tentative
"has now reportedly attempted to charter flights out of the country for the country’s at-risk women"
Clinton is certainly making the calls to ensure that at-risk women are properly prioritised. But the idea that there will be an additional plane (when the number of available airframes is not the limiting factor) seems fanciful.
NiceGerbil · 27/08/2021 05:19
All this charter flights stuff is very strange.
Who is piloting? What about insurance? Who owns the planes?
The biggest capacity is the army type ones with the inside stripped out etc.
Surely the countries should/would work together to get the most people out as poss with the resources they have.
But that's 3 instances I've heard of people apparently trying to send non military aircraft in.
It's really fucking weird. Doesn't make sense.
Anyway. Biden has fucked this up so much he couldn't have done worse if he'd tried. And he continues to say fucking stupid things. All of this is on him.
Whinginadeville · 27/08/2021 05:54
No she isn't arranging charter flights it looks like she's made a few calls asking for women and children to get a higher priority. More than Harris has done publicly to our knowledge so far but arranging private charter flights out of a besieged airport is not really possible.
morepatiencerequired · 27/08/2021 06:03
A very clever friend of mine involved in relief work has posted a fb message pointing out to all and sundry that now is not the time to be sharing intel on social media about what they have been told (from the horses mouth) is happening / about to happen. It risks lives. I can only imagine that the news must be vague for similar reasons.
CaptSkippy · 27/08/2021 11:57
@Whinginadevilleingi Please do not pit women's against each other.
Let's not forget the men who started this mess. Those to blame are Trump, Biden and the Taliban. They ought be prioritizing women and their children, because they put them in danger in the first place.
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