The UN pull personnel from Afghansitan
The UN pulls 600 staff out of Afghanistan after the Taliban attacked them.
“The United Nations is fully committed to helping all of Afghanistan’s people, as it has been for more than half a century,” the statement said.If the UN his fully committed to helping the Afghan people, how many casualties is the UN willing to accept in order to do this? I do not ask this facetiously. Insurgents targeted the UN in Iraq in 2003 and caused it to pull out. Clearly, being an aid worker by itself doesn’t assure one’s safety. So how do we expect to deal with these sorts of environments? Just stay out of them? Rely on the military to deliver basic services? Are we going to change our risk calculus for civilians deployed to unstable conflict zones? These are important questions to answer, especially for those who are concerned about American foreign policy becoming overly militarized.
