US Blames Afghan Refugees for US Wars in Afghanistan
Trump, according to The New Arab, is pushing for "tougher anti-immigration measures," specifically focusing on Afghan refugees—the very people displaced by America's 20-year war in Afghanistan. It's a classic case of arsonists complaining about the smoke detectors. For two decades, the U.S. poured trillions into a 'nation-building' exercise that, instead, built a refugee crisis. Yet, the
architects of that debacle now demand those fleeing it stay out. This rhetorical sleight of hand is critical: focus on the 'threat' refugees pose, rather than the US foreign policy that generates refugees. Funny how accountability works when it's always deflected onto the most vulnerable. One might wonder if the concern for national security extends to examining the decisions that destabilized an
entire region in the first place.