In American English and specifically in American slang there are two words less & dead respectively used as a phrase to describe the loss (murder) of citizens considered “second class” (e.g., people living on the margins of society, drug addicts homeless, prostitutes, etc.) for which losses the principles of law and order do not give due importance as they would give to losses (murders) of people belonging to the middle and upper income class of society.
The US-NATO decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has received strong criticism from all sides. Many NATO countries have tried to evacuate their citizens from Afghanistan and with them a few Afghans who have collaborated with their armed forces. The degree of success or failure in this endeavor varies.
The public opinion, which is the absolute judge of any policy in the case of the evacuation of Afghanistan, demanded and demands that many more things have been done right, at least in terms of the timely removal of all Afghans who cooperated with NATO countries.
But as things stand, the people of Afghanistan are considered “less dead” than those of a NATO country if they were involved in a similar evacuation situation. That is why the reactions of most of the public were relaxed.
A key factor in this tragedy was the inadequacy of the Afghan Armed Forces, which did not intend to fight hard and put obstacles in the way of the Taliban and the country’s leadership, so they collapsed without giving the necessary time for the smooth evacuation of all Afghans. citizens who cooperated with the Armed Forces of NATO countries.
But information constantly received from the Taliban’s humanitarian massacre of Afghanistan’s “less dead” includes extremism with executions / murders, kidnappings of adults and children, rape and outright terrorism.
The US-NATO have little to do now. But the least they can do is to increase the pressure on the Taliban as an international community to respect human rights if they want to be recognized internationally or else, they will have to isolate themselves.
