Maeve Higgins: US must offer a new home to the Afghans its war has cruelly displaced

The US need to take responsibility for their marauding these past two decades. One way to do that is to stop invading other countries, another is to offer the unfortunate people they’ve been complicit in displacing a new home

Afghan security guards try and maintain order as hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped the main airport as desperate crowds tried to flee the country. (AP Photo)

PERHAPS you, too, were struck dumb by the sight of Afghans falling to their deaths from a US military aircraft, as it flew out of Kabul airport, while the city fell to the Taliban. I saw that footage and I had no words. 

Later, somebody else’s words did come to mind, the poet Warsan Shire’s: