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Originally Posted by Slava
I saw a quote from someone in the US military who basically said that they had a lot of equipment and such set, but you have to be willing to fight. I have no idea how accurate that is, but that seems to make some sense here given how fast things fell.
And as far as Canada, I think we were caught flat-footed. Once the US pulled up stakes, we were done because we had no option. Maybe we thought we could get people out over the coming months? A week later and the country has fallen though, so by that point there was no way we could’ve acted to get everyone out.
I don’t think that absolves the government of anything, but it does give a plausible explanation aside from “we just decided to leave and let these people be slaughtered”.
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Yeah, screw that.
Canada has no excuse for not doing whatever it takes to get people out.
Any and all resources should have been made available, and diplomatic staff should have been given carte blanche to help process applications.
Our government sucks. Our country sucks. We all suck, because in a few months we'll go and elect these morons again.
And if you want to talk about no viable alternative, I'd agree. But we don't have one cause we suck as a country. We should all feel shame for what is happening to those poor people.
Pathetic.