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Is max passenger capacity of a C-117 approx 188? To evacuate 20,000 would be 106 loads.
Assuming they are all coming via C117. There are other options being used as well.Is max passenger capacity of a C-117 approx 188? To evacuate 20,000 would be 106 loads.
As someone who's spent the last 3 weeks just tracking the numbers of ~3,000 people flying out of relatively hard-to-get-to communities to a variety of different places in Ontario - where nobody's fighting a war - I don't think it's as simple as that. I can only guess it would be a lot more complicated getting that many people out of someplace that's (assuming Kabul-Toronto) +10,000K km away in a LOT more messy circumstances.Is max passenger capacity of a C-117 approx 188? To evacuate 20,000 would be 106 loads.
To reiterate what Oldgateboatdriver said, either they are out of Afghanistan alive in Canada, or they are dead in Afghanistan, either way Afghan society will not be having their influence much longer.Devils advocate.
What will removing 20,000 women leaders, human rights defenders, journalists, persecuted religious minorities spell for Afghanistan?
One of the rallying calls we heard over and over was that we were helping women in Afghanistan. Making it a better place for young girls and young women.
So what will Afghanistan look like with the women leaders and human rights defenders gone? Is it callous to suggest Afghanis need to deal with the Taliban on their own, if they want change.
Will taking away educated and moderate people from their society make it even worse for the people remaining?
The executions we are about to witness will rival …, I don’t have a comparison to quote. It will be bloody and very public
Very good point, especially since that was part of the argument against pulling even more people out of Afghanistan earlier on in the fight.... What will removing 20,000 women leaders, human rights defenders, journalists, persecuted religious minorities spell for Afghanistan?
One of the rallying calls we heard over and over was that we were helping women in Afghanistan. Making it a better place for young girls and young women.
So what will Afghanistan look like with the women leaders and human rights defenders gone? Is it callous to suggest Afghanis need to deal with the Taliban on their own, if they want change ...
Yup - and social media-y, too.The executions we are about to witness will rival …, I don’t have a comparison to quote. It will be bloody and very public
Very good point, especially since that was part of the argument against pulling even more people out of Afghanistan earlier on in the fight.
Which is better, though: opposition in exile*, or videos of people being killed with English subtitles saying, "See what a good job you did protecting them?" and local language narration saying "see what happens when you trust outsiders to help you out?"
* - Realizing, of course, that some oppositions-in-exile are more effective and less splintery/infighting-y than others
Yup - and social media-y, too.
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Mark Twain.
Trudeau calls an election.UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson set to recall Parliament this week from its summer recess for an emergency session to discuss the situation.
It's also a bit tough when the Canadian embassy has suspended operations.No way at this stage is everyone we want out can be "processed" and evacuated. What process did the 20,000 Syrians go through?