Posted on 08/26/2021 2:25:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sir Mark Lyall-Grant, a former national security adviser, said the current situation in Afghanistan is "clearly a defeat", adding: "We haven't left as we would have liked to have done."
He said: "We are in the hands of the Americans, they have taken the decisions.
"The British government would have been prepared to stay in Afghanistan longer, with the sort of limited commitment that we had made over the last three or four years.
"But once the Americans decided that they were going to leave, then obviously all the other NATO forces had to leave.
"And I think the manner in which we have left has been damaging for the United States, and damaging for the western countries more generally."
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At least when the Soviet Union left, it was in a well planned formation.
This was not a defeat. It was a retrograde.
I don’t understand. If this was a “defeat for the West,” why didn’t the Germans, British, and the rest of NATO stay? The answer seems to be, they have no real military capability on their own. The US has been propping them up since the Doughboys saved France in WW1.
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