If Afghanistan aftermath is botched PM and Raab cannot use Biden as scapegoat
HOW Dominic Raab must now regret his short-lived family holiday in Crete. Caught on the hop by the Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan, our Foreign Secretary is reportedly in hot water with PM Boris Johnson. Even so, the calls yesterday for Raab’s sacking by his Labour opponent Lisa Nandy and her colleagues were crass. Having […]
HOW Dominic Raab must now regret his short-lived family holiday in Crete.
Caught on the hop by the Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan, our Foreign Secretary is reportedly in hot water with PM Boris Johnson.
Even so, the calls yesterday for Raab’s sacking by his Labour opponent Lisa Nandy and her colleagues were crass.
Having only last month backed the full withdrawal of troops so Afghans could “determine their own affairs”, Ms Nandy is no crystal ball-gazer herself.
Mr Raab now needs to get a grip and ensure the UK takes a leading role in the international response.
With Afghans being shot dead in the street and desperate mothers hurling babies over barbed-wire airport fences to get them to safety, there is no time to lose.
There’s certainly no point looking to weakling US President Joe Biden, who continues to shuffle away from questions on the topic, and bizarrely claims he doesn’t even now know of any way “to have gotten out without chaos ensuing”.
The lion’s share of the blame for Afghanistan’s swift collapse may belong to President Biden, but if the handling of the aftermath is botched too, Mr Raab and his prime minister will have no scapegoats.
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