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Will Selber
Apr 09, 2024
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Howdy,

I will pause our discussion of the Gaza War and return to “rescuing” Afghans.

I use the quotation marks because I personally don’t think I rescued them. Instead, they rescued themselves by reaching out to me. On a few occasions, I did some good stuff, but it was the individual Afghans who got themselves to safety.

I was never in danger. My life wa…

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