Lord Dannatt was head of UK's armed forces a decade ago.
"Writing in The Telegraph, Lord Dannatt said: 'Until last month, the Afghan National Army, supported by a modest but highly effective international force, was successfully containing the Taliban while Afghan civil society continued to develop.
'In this context, the precipitate decision by Mr Biden to end the so-called forever war by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 makes little strategic sense."
That's the reality. Things were ticking along fairly well at low cost. Not brilliantly, of course. I agree. But at the containment level, with the Afghans taking the brunt of the violence.
Now we will have ISIS and al Qaeda back. Our departure was missold. Biden pretended the terrorists were defeated. Instead, we have closed down the evacuation for fear of a terrorist incident.
On balance, leaving was a worse decision than the decision to stay would have been, even if we had needed a short term surge to deal with the annoyed Taliban.
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