Does Briton have a moral duty to take in as many Afghan refugees as possible?

Just looking at the news now and the horrific scenes at the airport in Kabul. They’re now reporting that despite best efforts they don’t expect to be able to evacuate all the interpreters and others at risk, in time. The situation seems to be getting more desperate by the hour. Surely those who have helped the armed forces and are now at terrible risk should have been protected/relocated before the withdrawal began.

If this is how it’s ended, what have we been fighting for since more or less the beginning of the century ? The Taliban have taken over at breakneck speed and Afghanistan will once more be a safe haven for terrorist organisations, putting us all at risk once more. Isn’t this what we were meant to stop ?

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Ailidh

Yes.

I know there have been other situations that triggered it for other people but for me the Afghan situation is the one that makes me downright ashamed of my country's political leaders.

There are U.K. troops alongside US and Allied Troops keeping the Military side of Kabul Airport operational, they are processing evacuees round the clock.

The Defence Secretary has been giving interviews this morning, very interesting to listen to.

Of course we should. With no reservations.

Yes.

I know there have been other situations that triggered it for other people but for me the Afghan situation is the one that makes me downright ashamed of my country's political leaders.

The situation is far worse than it was before Blair and Bush intervened. I cannot see any country sending their troops in to fight the Taliban yet again. The best we can do is help the poor innocents who are having to flee from such a brutal regime. A previous poster mentions them arriving on dinghies. I hope we have a lot more compassion for them than that.

I would suggest 20000 the same as Canada, who have a population half the size of ours,. Of course ours is increasing daily due to Channel crossings, including Afghans, and the arrival of interpreters and their families in June. Brave man our Ambassador, while everyone, including the Afghan army and the President ,is running away, he stays to help others. Realism not emotion is needed here.

Laurie Bristow our British Ambassador in Afghanistan has remained at Kabul
Airport and is continuing to issue visas to U.K. for Afghani’s.

Yes, absolutely yes.
We must do everything we can.

Yes.

Yes.

Yep, moral obligation. That there should have been any doubt about offering refuge to the interpreters and others who have helped the armed forces, is unthinkable.

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If countries don’t take the families who have helped them for the last twenty years, they will be killed.

growstuff

Yes, especially the ones who helped as interpreters etc. Their lives are in real danger.

I second that.

Of course.

We do of course. Whether that will be taken into account when people turn up on our shores in dinghies is another matter...

Another yes here too. Seeing the videos at the airports of desperate Afghanis trying to leave broke my heart. All those poor families.

Yes, especially the ones who helped as interpreters etc. Their lives are in real danger.

Absolutely. Those poor people.

So do I.