How do students ask questions when they can not reach their teachers.
That is the next big question we will be asking our nation, and worlds, educators.
The Afghan Project.
At least that is what I would call it if I were starting something like that.
For the past 20 or so year women and girls have moved into the same position that women were fighting for at the turn of the century in the United States.
Removing the factor of race issues, the divide between male and female hasn't even been fully settled in most of the rest of the world.
The ability to Vote.
The ability to Learn.
The ability to Work.
How do you support these things without a military presence?
Fundamentalists are, much like in the U.S., leading the charge to "Make Afghan Great Again." as the U.S. forces withdraw.
...
The above words I wrote weeks before the situation is what it is in Afghanistan today. Crowds trying desperately to make it to the Kabul airport to evacuate the country.
The focus is getting the Americans and other foreign nationals out while accepting refugees "as they can."
This isn't a U.S. problem.
This is a U.N. problem.
Unlike the Iraq war the war in Afghanistan was a U.N. sanctioned multinational response spear headed by the U.S.
So though I do not fully agree with the President's response that it is "an Afghan problem" I will say that it is a U.N. problem as to figuring out what to do for the people trying to leave the nation.
So let's talk about the hard numbers as if the U.S. where shouldering the entirety of the burden.
Roughly 300,000 Afghan people where allied directly with and working along side American and Coalition forces throughout the past 20 years. So that is the target number for the next 5 days.
300,000 people
We'll worry about the bureaucratic side of this in a moment.
At least that is what I would call it if I were starting something like that.
For the past 20 or so year women and girls have moved into the same position that women were fighting for at the turn of the century in the United States.
Removing the factor of race issues, the divide between male and female hasn't even been fully settled in most of the rest of the world.
The ability to Vote.
The ability to Learn.
The ability to Work.
How do you support these things without a military presence?
Fundamentalists are, much like in the U.S., leading the charge to "Make Afghan Great Again." as the U.S. forces withdraw.
...
The above words I wrote weeks before the situation is what it is in Afghanistan today. Crowds trying desperately to make it to the Kabul airport to evacuate the country.
The focus is getting the Americans and other foreign nationals out while accepting refugees "as they can."
This isn't a U.S. problem.
This is a U.N. problem.
Unlike the Iraq war the war in Afghanistan was a U.N. sanctioned multinational response spear headed by the U.S.
So though I do not fully agree with the President's response that it is "an Afghan problem" I will say that it is a U.N. problem as to figuring out what to do for the people trying to leave the nation.
So let's talk about the hard numbers as if the U.S. where shouldering the entirety of the burden.
Roughly 300,000 Afghan people where allied directly with and working along side American and Coalition forces throughout the past 20 years. So that is the target number for the next 5 days.
300,000 people
We'll worry about the bureaucratic side of this in a moment.
The average NFL stadium holds 60'000 spectators.
that means you would need 5 stadiums to evacuate people to.
Why a Stadium?
Though sleeping in the seats may not be comfortable the stay would be temporary.
There are bathroom facilities and food vending facilities already set up to accommodate that number of people.
There are P.A. systems for announcements and communicating what's going on for large crowds.
Locker facilities have showers if needed for emergencies.
The Stadiums are already set up with a mind for large crowd security and there are ways of getting supplies in and out efficiently.
The field it's self where medical and security screening facilities can be set up.
So five teams volunteer their fields for the season to evacuate the refugees to and use as processing facilities to find them their homes.
I'm sure there are a number of active and former military members what would assist in the screenings by helping the individuals they worked side by side with in a war zone figure out if they are staying, going, or heading back.
From there, as the evacuation is happening and people are being screened we find 300'000 homes.
I know, many of the 300'000 will be family units and/or willing to cohabitate so 300'000 homes may be overkill but still, the overage...well..we'll talk about that when this operation is done and the Kabul airport is no longer the site of a humanitarian crisis.
In the U.S. or outside the U.S. it doesn't much matter, but homes to find.
Plan on giving them starting money. $30,000 per adult and $10,000 per child.
to buy clothing, food, and necessities to get started.
Remember almost all of those people will be arriving with nothing more than a suitcase...if that much.
"Who's going to pay for that?"
Well, considering that it costs $1,000,000 per troop per year to be in Afghanistan and all but a very small number will still be mobilized in the region in evacuation efforts I'd say we can find it in the budget somewhere. That's roughly 9 billion, we'll round it up to an even 10 billion out of the $45 Billion dollars spent in Afghanistan last year.
As for the bureaucratic side of things.
Well, this is a humanitarian crisis.
And, this isn't just a U.S. problem, but as I illustrated in the above numbers, the U.S. is capable of shouldering the burden entirely without extra budgetary concerns, it's just a matter of will.
The Army can handle the logistics,
Marines the escort operations while coordinating with the Airforce and Navy for getting people where they need to go.
The National Guard is already busy with wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters...or should be.
So that's what you need.
5 stadiums
$10 Billion Dollar Relocation Budget.
And
the Elbow Grease of the U.S. Military ($40 Billion Budget, $5 Billion less than the Afghan operational Costs)
Granted, some icing on the cake would be some NGO's and assistance from other nations involved in the operation. Especially with the finding homes part, but that's the short of it.
From there, it will be making sure that everyone that needed out got out and then figuring out what roll the U.N. and the U.S. will have in Afghanistan when the dust of all of this settles.
"The hell makes you think all this would work Jack, and what makes you think this seat of the pants idea of yours would work anyway.?"
...Oh...Well...I came up with this idea years ago when we first started talking about leaving Afghanistan seriously.
And everyone is wanting to equate every damned thing to holocaust, so that's what we're doing.
Treating the Afghan people the way the Jewish people should have been treated after World War II.
Ya know, because we have a lot less Nazi Sympathizers in Congress now...or at least we should.
Anyway, that's the plan.
Has been the plan.
Just need the American people to agree with the plan.
We have six day.
Though sleeping in the seats may not be comfortable the stay would be temporary.
There are bathroom facilities and food vending facilities already set up to accommodate that number of people.
There are P.A. systems for announcements and communicating what's going on for large crowds.
Locker facilities have showers if needed for emergencies.
The Stadiums are already set up with a mind for large crowd security and there are ways of getting supplies in and out efficiently.
The field it's self where medical and security screening facilities can be set up.
So five teams volunteer their fields for the season to evacuate the refugees to and use as processing facilities to find them their homes.
I'm sure there are a number of active and former military members what would assist in the screenings by helping the individuals they worked side by side with in a war zone figure out if they are staying, going, or heading back.
From there, as the evacuation is happening and people are being screened we find 300'000 homes.
I know, many of the 300'000 will be family units and/or willing to cohabitate so 300'000 homes may be overkill but still, the overage...well..we'll talk about that when this operation is done and the Kabul airport is no longer the site of a humanitarian crisis.
In the U.S. or outside the U.S. it doesn't much matter, but homes to find.
Plan on giving them starting money. $30,000 per adult and $10,000 per child.
to buy clothing, food, and necessities to get started.
Remember almost all of those people will be arriving with nothing more than a suitcase...if that much.
"Who's going to pay for that?"
Well, considering that it costs $1,000,000 per troop per year to be in Afghanistan and all but a very small number will still be mobilized in the region in evacuation efforts I'd say we can find it in the budget somewhere. That's roughly 9 billion, we'll round it up to an even 10 billion out of the $45 Billion dollars spent in Afghanistan last year.
As for the bureaucratic side of things.
Well, this is a humanitarian crisis.
And, this isn't just a U.S. problem, but as I illustrated in the above numbers, the U.S. is capable of shouldering the burden entirely without extra budgetary concerns, it's just a matter of will.
The Army can handle the logistics,
Marines the escort operations while coordinating with the Airforce and Navy for getting people where they need to go.
The National Guard is already busy with wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters...or should be.
So that's what you need.
5 stadiums
$10 Billion Dollar Relocation Budget.
And
the Elbow Grease of the U.S. Military ($40 Billion Budget, $5 Billion less than the Afghan operational Costs)
Granted, some icing on the cake would be some NGO's and assistance from other nations involved in the operation. Especially with the finding homes part, but that's the short of it.
From there, it will be making sure that everyone that needed out got out and then figuring out what roll the U.N. and the U.S. will have in Afghanistan when the dust of all of this settles.
"The hell makes you think all this would work Jack, and what makes you think this seat of the pants idea of yours would work anyway.?"
...Oh...Well...I came up with this idea years ago when we first started talking about leaving Afghanistan seriously.
And everyone is wanting to equate every damned thing to holocaust, so that's what we're doing.
Treating the Afghan people the way the Jewish people should have been treated after World War II.
Ya know, because we have a lot less Nazi Sympathizers in Congress now...or at least we should.
Anyway, that's the plan.
Has been the plan.
Just need the American people to agree with the plan.
We have six day.
