The Abandoned Translator Who Helped Rescue American Soldiers

[Locutus]

The Abandoned Translator Who Helped Rescue American Soldiers

via zip:

Just like the Pakistani doctor who helped get Bin Laden, this administration tend to leave those who aid us in jeopardy.


Via WFB:

Four years ago, an Afghan translator known as “Hafez” charged into enemy fire to help Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer rescue wounded American soldiers during one of the most famous battles in the Afghanistan war.

Meyer received the Medal of Honor for his courage in the battle of Ganjgal—the first living Marine to receive the honor since the Vietnam war.

But Meyer says his friend Hafez is still waiting to receive a U.S. visa he applied for years ago. The former translator remains in Afghanistan under daily threat from the Taliban while his application is caught in the bureaucratic limbo of the State Department.

“He stood next to me, by my side pretty much the entire time [during the Battle of Ganjgal],” Meyer, 25, said in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon on Monday. “He helped me carry my guys out.”

“If we can’t help get this guy back who sacrificed so much to bring these Americans home, I’m sure he’ll be killed,” he said.

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Afghan translator of Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer caught in bureaucratic limbo | Washington Free Beacon

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[Goober]

He is a dead man if not given a visa.
Same with those that worked with/for NATO.

 

[Cliffy]

Considering how the US treats its veterans, it is not surprising they treat a foreign national this way.

 

[Nuggler]

Witness the debacle when the US left Namm, and their employees behind.

Friends like that........................

 

[BaalsTears]

The risk to the American people is too great to grant asylum to all of those Afghans who helped the US in its Afghan War.

 

[Cliffy]

The risk to the American people is too great to grant asylum to all of those Afghans who helped the US in its Afghan War.

But the risk to the Afghan people was never calculated before or after the brilliantly planned and executed war, was it?

 

[Highball]

Look at how America treats American's it doesn't particularly like? I saw us walk off and leave Vietnamese plain clothes infiltrators who worked their *** off for the US-South Vietnam's side in the Vietnam war. When this nation is done with you, you are abandoned. Believe me.

 

[Zipperfish]

I felt bad for teh translators over there. They are out there with the soldiers, but they have to go back to their homes at night, not secure military bases. Plus, if the Taliban ever overrun the place again, the first thing they'll do is murder the US/NATO accomplices. Like a heck of a lot of Afghans, they would really like to get out of Afghanistan. If anyone deserves a shot in Canada or the US it's these guys. They've proved their loyalty.

I heard Canada isn't much better when it comes to abandoning the translators.

 

[Angstrom]

And that's what they did to Bin Laden when they didn't need him anymore against Russia...
Dom Dom Dom.....

 

[Zipperfish]

And that's what they did to Bin Laden when they didn't need him anymore against Russia...
Dom Dom Dom.....

The guys I met weren't bin Ladens--millionaires from another country.

 

[EagleSmack]

And that's what they did to Bin Laden when they didn't need him anymore against Russia...
Dom Dom Dom.....

Oh do go on! I want to hear this one.

Any details on this?

Considering how the US treats its veterans, it is not surprising they treat a foreign national this way.

I'm a veteran... the US treats me just fine.

Have a nice day.

 

[Angstrom]

The guys I met weren't bin Ladens--millionaires from another country.

Still left him high and dry, just the same.
Anyways we don't need more proven traitors in this country.

 

[Cliffy]

I'm a veteran... the US treats me just fine.

Have a nice day.

That's because you're so special. The rate of suicides amoung vets from Iraqi War outstretches the Americans killed in that war.

Were you an officer or front line cannon fodder?

 

[Mowich]

Considering how the US treats its veterans, it is not surprising they treat a foreign national this way.

I am not too happy lately with the way Canada is treating its vets, Cliffy. Just sayin'.

 

[Nuggler]

I am not too happy lately with the way Canada is treating its vets, Cliffy. Just sayin'.

Not too many are, Mowich. Nor should they be.

 

[EagleSmack]

Were you an officer or front line cannon fodder?

Once again your ignorance shows in yet another post.

By front line cannon fodder I would think you mean Infantry. Yes I was in the infantry... as were many officers.

Back to tapping trees with you Cliffy!