You rightly say 'thie is a moment for moral clarity and strategic forethought'. But tragically today morals seem a very rare virtue among the leaders of the western nations who abandoned the courageous people of Afghanistan and left their erstwhile allies and colleagues to fend for themselves. I first visited your beautiful country in 1971 and recall the orchards of Kabul, where I first saw mangoes. Decades later where the orchards were had been laid waste and were deserts of landmines. First the Soviets then the West brought you destruction.
The tentacles of a master criminal, murderous tyrant spread far and wide. With allies N Korea, Iran, China, and various autocrats, he is exploiting weakness in faulty, messy democracies all over.
You can bet he is happy the wretched Afghans are suffering under Theocratic tyrannies like Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah - they are all the same virus.
We must not let them divide us, have our friends at each other's throats, while he smiles at the chaos he has engineered.
You rightly say 'thie is a moment for moral clarity and strategic forethought'. But tragically today morals seem a very rare virtue among the leaders of the western nations who abandoned the courageous people of Afghanistan and left their erstwhile allies and colleagues to fend for themselves. I first visited your beautiful country in 1971 and recall the orchards of Kabul, where I first saw mangoes. Decades later where the orchards were had been laid waste and were deserts of landmines. First the Soviets then the West brought you destruction.
The tentacles of a master criminal, murderous tyrant spread far and wide. With allies N Korea, Iran, China, and various autocrats, he is exploiting weakness in faulty, messy democracies all over.
You can bet he is happy the wretched Afghans are suffering under Theocratic tyrannies like Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah - they are all the same virus.
We must not let them divide us, have our friends at each other's throats, while he smiles at the chaos he has engineered.