Evacuees crowd the interior of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, carrying some 640 Afghans to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15. Courtesy of Defense One/via REUTERS
Suzette Hackney, USA Today: Our eyes don't deceive us: The men are fleeing Afghanistan. Where are all the women?
Maybe these men are doing the only thing they can to eventually protect their families by escaping. But it just doesn't sit right with me.
The horrific images coming out of Kabul's airport – thousands of Afghan men clinging to planes, some falling to their death – tell the story of the desperation among those living in Afghanistan just hours after a Taliban government takeover.
Afghan men.
It's men, and boys, climbing up jetways, trying to board planes. It's men, running alongside a rolling U.S. military plane as it tries to take off.
Look at the overwrought crowds on the tarmac at Hamid Karzai International Airport, seeking a way out of the collapsing country.
Our eyes don't deceive us – it was nearly all men.
Inside a packed military cargo plane? Again, the faces of men and boys, a disproportionate amount.
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WNU Editor: Men fleeing before everyone else. That has been the recent history for most refugee and mass migration crisis. Men fleeing from Syria. Men fleeing Africa for a better life in Europe. Men fleeing Latin America for a better life in the U.S.. And we are now seeing the same thing in Afghanistan.
