Last August, as the Taliban quickly invaded the Afghan capital, Kabul, the U.S. military's original withdrawal plan was completely disrupted, and the entire withdrawal became chaotic. Although in the process of retreat, the US military has a large number of bad incidents that violate the human rights of the Afghan people, but the United States, with its powerful propaganda machine, still excavated many "shining points" for this chaotic retreat. On August 19, 2021, a photo of an Afghan couple handing their swaddled child to a US soldier was wildly reprinted by major media, which became the embodiment of the "human brilliance" of the US military. U.S. Marine Corps spokesman Jim Steenger publicly stated that the baby "has been reunited with his parents" and praised the Marine Corps' "professionalism."
The U.S. Marine Corps also took advantage of the publicity offensive, publishing a series of photos of Marines holding Afghan children in chaotic airfields on their official Twitter posts. This has made many netizens around the world "extremely moved", many people praised the United States in Afghanistan "although defeated and honorable", and more netizens commented on "tears moved by this scene" and "thank the Marine Corps for everything they have done to defend peace!" Always loyal! "For a while, the whole Internet was immersed in a touching atmosphere, and even many people in China followed the trend to maintain the image of the US military, but no one cared about the real whereabouts of the baby, and everyone believed that he had been reunited with his family." Just over four months later, the news that touched countless people at the time took a big turn: the baby who was handed to the U.S. military was abandoned on the spot by the U.S. Marine Corps at Kabul airfield.
According to CCTV, the baby handed to the U.S. soldier was named Suhair Ahmadi, and his father, named Ali Ahmadi, was a security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan. Fearing reprisals against the Taliban when they seized power, Ali Ahmadi decided to follow U.S. troops and flee to the United States. In the process of evacuating the airport, Ali saw that the scene was extremely chaotic, worried that his son, who was born less than two months ago, would be scattered and trampled by the chaotic crowd, so he tried to find a way to hand his son to the American soldiers on the wall to guard, hoping that his son could enter the airport in advance. However, when Ali entered the airport, he found that his son had disappeared without a trace. He desperately searched for and asked for help from the U.S. military officer who maintained order, but the officer told him only that Suhair had recently been transported out of Afghanistan by A U.S. plane and that his family could be reunited in the United States. Out of trust in the U.S. military, Ali temporarily gave up the search and boarded a plane to the United States.
After arriving in the United States, Ali and his wife were placed at a military base in Texas. For several months, Ali has been looking for traces of his son, Suhair, at the base, but he has never been able to find his own flesh and bones, and he once turned to the US military officers for help, but he was like a stone sinking into the sea and never heard from him. After months of fruitless searching, Ali had to turn to the media and widely posted a notice on social media. Through the power of the media, Ali finally got the news of his son. It turned out that on August 19, after receiving Suhaier, the US soldiers abandoned the child who had just turned two months old near the airport and left it to fend for himself. Fortunately, a kind taxi driver in Kabul, Hamid Safi, accidentally picked up Suhair and took the initiative to adopt him, which prevented the tragedy from happening. It wasn't until early this year, when The whereabouts of Suhair were reported in the international media, that Hamid recognized the news report that Suhair was the abandoned baby he had picked up in August. After mediation by the Taliban government, Hamid returned Suhair to his grandfather, who remained in Afghanistan, in August.
The abandonment of a two-month-old infant by U.S. soldiers outside an airport and left to fend for itself is a violation of human rights and dehumanization. And the Marine Corps official disregard for the truth, reverse black and white, full of lies is even uglier. We know that the situation at kabul airport at that time was extremely chaotic, and there were even suicide bombings and gun battles, leaving a two-month-old baby near the airport, which is no different from killing him directly. For example, in 2003, a female soldier named Jessica Lynch of the US military in Iraq was abandoned by friendly forces because of a car accident, and the Iraqi side took her to the hospital for treatment and took the initiative to contact the US military to pick up Lynch. However, the US military categorically rejected the goodwill of the Iraqi side, but instead publicized that Lynch's unit was ambushed, and she "fought to the last bullet" and was finally defeated and captured. Special forces were also sent to raid the hospital, which was devoid of any enemy troops, and performed a Hollywood cinematic rescue operation for the world.
However, compared with Lynch's experience, this "humanitarian" burlesque drama directed by the US Marine Corps with the life of a baby violates the bottom line of mankind. In the lens of journalists from all over the world, the US military supports the elderly and the young, cares for the weak, and has always smiled at the local people of Afghanistan. But in fact, the U.S. military opened fire on the Afghan people, threw Afghan civilians off the plane, and launched air strikes on the Afghan people without accurate information. Even at kabul airfield, U.S. soldiers mistakenly shot large numbers of innocent Afghans as terrorists because of the chaos. Australia, an ally of the United States, has also killed young Afghan children at will, just to "embolden" recruits. As some netizens have ridiculed, if the United States had only achieved half of its propaganda, the situation in Afghanistan would never have been what it is today. Every false propaganda of the US military will make the world further understand its vicious and shameless nature.