Editorial: Boris Johnson and his ministers have been slow off the mark to respond to what is a humiliation for the UK as well as the US
’ disastrous decision to withdraw its troops by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks next month. The focus on decisions by Donald Trump and then Joe Biden has resulted in remarkably little political debate in the UK – wrongly, since the government joined the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and saw the deaths of 457 service personnel before following the US’s lead in starting to withdraw its troops.
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