Boris is savaged by MPs on BOTH sides of packed Commons including Theresa May over 'catastrophic failure' amid fears Afghanistan will be 'breeding ground' for terror again – but PM blames Biden saying mission could not carry on without 'US might'

On the current airlift, Mr Johnson revealed that just 306 UK nationals and 2,052 Afghan nationals had been extracted so far - with thousands more still waiting....

..He added: 'As for our Nato allies and allies around the world, when it came for us to look at the options that this country might have in view of the American decision to withdraw we came up against this hard reality.

'That since 2009, America has deployed 98 per cent of all weapons released from Nato aircraft in Afghanistan and at the peak of the operation – where there were 132,000 troops on the ground – 90,000 of them were American.

'The West could not continue this US-led mission, a mission conceived and executed in support of America... without US logistics, without US airpower, and without American might.' ...

Intervening in Mr Johnson's speech, former PM Theresa May demanded details of his discussions on the 'possibility of putting together an alliance of other forces in order to replace the American support in Afghanistan'.

Mr Johnson replied: 'I really think that it is an illusion to believe that there is appetite...

and then there were zingers like the below:
“His hands shook and his voice quivered at times. But at no point did he lose his composure. He fired an RPG at President Biden for his ‘shameful’ accusation that Afghan troops had simply cut and run as the Taliban advanced.

‘Those who have never fought for the colours they fly should be careful about criticising those who have,’ he said. Oof. The early risers in the West Wing will have felt that barb all the way across the Atlantic”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9906333/HENRY-DEEDES-star-turn-aside-preening-gasbags-point-Khyber-pass-map.html

Boris raised an interesting issue that will probably go right over the heads of the US media, namely that the US supplied 98% of all the weapons released by Allied aircraft.

This begs the question, where the hell is British, French, German, etc. weaponry - bombs, rockets, shells, etc that were used? Was it a question of certain sizes of ordnance was needed to fit US aircraft or something else?

There should have been a standard size for common-use ordnance by all Allied aircraft, artillery, etc.

In Nam, ARVN often preferred to use captured Communist weapons because they were easy to maintain and they had plenty of ammo (instead of depending on an 8,000 mile supply line from the US which turned out to be unreliable.

When I was in Cambodia in Nov. 1970, the only government ordnance (shells) manufacturing plant fell to the No. Vietnamese at Pic Nil. They were totally dependent on US arms.

I reviewed some of their troops and they had a mishmash of Communist, US and Allied weapons without ammunition for most. They even had a No. Korean machine gun attached to a bicycle, and their 12 Mig 15’s couldn’t fly because they didn’t have any parts for maintenance or ordnance to go with them.

An Army travels with its supply line. In Cambodia there was no supply line and in So. Vietnam, that supply line was dependent on the US Congress appropriations which our congressional reds concentrated on cutting down year after year (Clark, Cooper Church, Kennedy, etc. amendments).

Stupidity and treason were the policies of the Democrats and the Republicans weren’t much better.

Willing to bet that you won’t see much on the subject in the leftist/liberal press at all and only in a few attunded conservative publications/columnists.

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