Afghanistan - why did we bother?

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After Boris got slaughtered by all sides of the house yesterday there have been renewed calls for Dominic Raab's head - again.

This time for refusing to make a phone call that could have saved people's lives.

As John Stevens puts it:


Raab wasn't asked to be the ambassador processing visas at Kabul airport

Raab wasn't asked to be one of the 600 troops deployed to secure the airport

He was asked to make *one phone call* from his sun lounger to help the translators who served our troops - and he refused.


Asshole. But of course he won't resign and Blojo won't sack him.

I was impressed by this soldier demanding a public inquiry: https://twitter.com/i/status/1428084653718753286

But what they don't tell you is that the phone call was made, it just wasn't Raab that made it. Not that it made any difference anyway, by this time the Afghan government was only concerned with saving it's own skin.

Another non-story, Lefties running round in circles, chasing their own tails.