Beyond the geo-politics, blame game for failed strategies and power struggles, the scenes playing out in Afghanistan are first and foremost a human tragedy.
Tragedy of a parent who had to hand over his baby to the US marine over a high, barbed-wire fence at the Kabul airport in a desperate attempt to save the child.
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The father asked US Marines to look after the baby as the baby was ill. The soldiers then took the baby to the a Norwegian hospital inside the airport and re-united the baby with the father after treatment, according to US defense department's spokesperson John Kirby.
There have been reports of many women throwing their child over the barbed wire fence at the Kabul airport asking foreign troops to take them away to safety.