“All our hard work has been undone” Royal Marine veteran Ben McBean was left a double amputee after serving in Afghanistan, he says “we spent 20 years there, and they’ve taken it all over in about a week or two”
It was always likely, this close to the end of the Nato mission to Afghanistan, that events would appear to accelerate. We are, after all, getting out.
But as they made their careful arrangements, planners did not necessarily anticipate the speed of the Taliban's advance, or the weakness of an Afghan military the US and its allies spent almost two decades building up.What we're facing, instead, is something altogether more chaotic. Perverse though it might sound, sending troops in to get people out was always going to be part of the plan.But the withdrawal of an unspecified number of embassy personnel, with the Americans making a similar move, is clearly being driven by events on the ground.
With US officials warning that the Afghan government could fall in as little as 30 days , these feel like the crisis plans everyone hoped they wouldn't have to use.
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