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Originally Posted by Knightslayer
Forgive my ignorance but now that Taliban took over does that mean the Airport will be permanently closed? Wouldn't there still be flights coming and going or will the Taliban ban people from flying in and out.
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What Wimbledon said, and also, Taleban is actively trying to prevent (even more) educated people from leaving the country, especially people like doctors and people with technical and governmental skills, and those latter groups heavily overlap with "people who worked with the US". This is a big reason why the heads of Taleban want to stop people from leaving, it's not just (or even mainly) because they want to punish "traitors".
(...but obviously there is a notable section within the Taleban who are all about revenge, so the people who want to leave have extremely legitimate reasons to be afraid, I don't want to confuse the issue on whether or not the west should try to evacuate the people who worked with them. Interpreters who worked with the western militaries are especially effed, as they were most directly involved in what the Taleban view as a reign of western occupation and terror, and the Taleban has no major need for their skills.)
It's worth remembering that the Taleban is
trying to create a stable country. They might be extreme conservatives, but they (at least the current version) is no ISIS. (In fact they're in direct conflict with the local ISIS faction, known as ISIS-K.)
ISIS at it's worst is basically a doomsday cult.
The
goal of Taleban is to bring peace and stability into Afghanistan, to end the wars and become recognized as a legitimate government and do all the normal related things like foreign trade. Their idea of peace and stability just stems from a belief in the superiority of conservative muslim values, and being born in refugee camps and in a country with a 40 year history of more or less continuous war, their idea of peace and stability is... let's say questionable. Plus there's a lot of people in Afghanistan who are quite willing to die rather than let the Taleban rule them (and for good reasons), which is why peace is probably not around the corner.
(There is a lot of war weariness though, so who knows what's going to happen.)
Additionally, I've been thinking about this:
If the situation was reversed, you think the US would allow Taleban to organize an evacuation of their supporters, and what does that say about the western approach to "bringing peace to Afghanistan".