It begins. Afghan "refugees" now showing up. Canada already accepts 20,000 of them.

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If Afghans aren't willing to fight for their homeland, what value do they to have us?

I'm not arguing the value of these people but it doesn't change our obligation if we want to have some semblance of moral authority. If we don't, we should abandon the pretense altogether and stop having our hands tied.

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That moral authority came in the form of not carpet bombing the country into complete dust. If the West wanted to be a lot more evil during war time, we have weapons that are far more scarier than conventional bombs, but we never used them.

But now that the war is lost, it's not our responsibility.