Why Have U.S. Media Outlets Abandoned Afghan Women?

While Afghanistan’s women endure unimaginable suffering, only Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) and J.K. Rowling seem to care.

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Had Donald Trump been responsible for the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the women of Afghanistan might even now be getting the attention they so richly deserve from media outlets and political leaders in the United States.

Unfortunately for Afghanistan’s women, it was instead President Joe Biden— a Democratic president far more popular with mainstream media outlets than his hated predecessor — who ultimately gave the orders, approved the drawdown of U.S. troops and presided over those catastrophic final U.S. days in Afghanistan.

Desperate people clinging to airplanes, falling to their deaths during a frantic scramble to flee; Americans and Afghan allies left behind in droves; U.S. military service members killed during a terrorist attack on the Kabul Airport — a mission-critical location for which President Biden was depending on the Taliban to provide security; a humanitarian aid worker and his entire family bombed by a tragically mistaken U.S. drone strike: It’s hard to imagine the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan going any worse than it did.