Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

I thought of this before I read it, that the swarm of Afghans who are swarming to get out of Afghanistan on U.S. planes, are no different than the swarms of Latin Americans who swarm to our southern border trying to get in here. Afghanistan is a poor country, and people in poor countries want to come to America. If we had offered to do this before the Taliban took over, that is, when Ghani was still the mayor of Kabul, people would have stormed the airport the same way trying to get out. 

What do you think would happen if we went to Telucigalpa and offered to take people out on planes? You don't think they would swarm the airport? God-damn right they would. 

Amir Khan Motaqi, chief of the Taliban's guidance council, criticized America over the situation at the airport in an audio clip posted online Sunday. He described the U.S.'s actions as “tyranny." 

“All Afghanistan is secure, but the airport which is managed by the Americans has anarchy," he said. "The U.S. should not defame itself, should not embarrass itself to the world and should not give this mentality to our people that the Islamic Emirate are a kind of enemy.”

Speaking to an Iranian state television channel late Saturday night in a video call, Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem also blamed the deaths at the airport on the Americans in what quickly became a combative interview.

“The Americans announced that they would take people to America with them, and people gathered at Kabul airport," Naeem said. “If it was announced right now in any country in the world, would people not go?”

The host on Iranian state TV quickly said: “It won't happen in Iran.”

Naeem responded: “Be sure this will happen anywhere.”