{"id":28099,"date":"2011-12-27T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T19:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28099"},"modified":"2011-12-27T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T19:29:51","slug":"the-new-hmong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28099","title":{"rendered":"The new Hmong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LA Times<\/a> reports that Iraqis who helped US forces in Iraq are suspended in time in their country and often targeted by their own people for violence;<\/p>\n

The U.S. government promised Tariq and thousands of other former interpreters that they would be first in line for special visas to the United States. But with the pace of visa approvals having slowed to a crawl, that promise rings hollow for Tariq, who stays locked in his parents’ home, working the phones and the Internet to track his application.<\/p>\n

For the first time since his work as an interpreter ended, Tariq left his home one day this month and drove through Baghdad to meet a reporter. He brought along his brother, a tall, burly fellow who literally watched Tariq’s back with each step. Tariq asked that his surname not be published.<\/p>\n

“I served the Americans very well, but now they’ve left me on my own, with no security,” he said in nearly flawless English. “They’ve expelled us all from the only places in Iraq that were safe for us \u2014 U.S. bases.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We did the same thing after the war in Vietnam to the indigenous people who risked their lives for us there. most of them ended up in Communist “reeducation camps” or murdered outright. many found their way to Europe and the US as the famous “boat people”. But is it any wonder that we meet such resistance when we try to help countries when we always abandon them to the sharks?<\/p>\n

Republican administrations are just as guilty of this as Democrats. George HW Bush pretty much left Iraq’s Shi’ites to the whims of Saddam Hussein. One day we were providing them with a safe haven and the next day we were racing them to Saudi Arabia after encouraging the Shi’ites to rise up against Hussein. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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