"Take the case of Iraqis who worked for the US and the UK, many of whom have been hunted down by insurgents.
Neither the Bush nor the Obama administrations had much interest in ensuring their safety after they risked everything to build a new Iraq with the West.
The UK left theirs behind in Basra, to be rounded up and killed after British forces departed.
Many US soldiers have worked tirelessly, against their own government's bureaucracy and fears of terrorist infiltrators, to help their translators emigrate. But rather than honour those who stood with the US, Bush and Obama have left unfilled 18,000 visa slots of 25,000 authorised for Iraqis by Congress.
The sad fact is that when crises at home overtake Western politicians and publics, they have a remarkable capacity for simply forgetting those who stood with the West in the non-European world. Indian soldiers, who had fought for the Allies in World War II, found themselves the objects of racism in the post-war UK; the South Vietnamese were left hanging off helicopter skids or stewing in communist re-education camps; and there is little doubt what will happen to many Afghans who have placed their hopes in the West's staying power."
source: The tragedy of imperial retreat - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
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