Dominic MacSorley: International community must not turn its back on Afghanistan

US airmen and marines guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Now is not the time for the international community to turn its back on the people of Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan need the support of the international community now more than ever.
Throughout the decades of failed military interventions, humanitarian organisations have stayed, working with communities who have been ravaged by years of conflict, climatic disasters, poverty, and persecution.