The scenes of triumphant Taliban fighters conquering city after city, amassing vast arsenals of Western-supplied weapons, have unnerved many of America’s allies. In an unusual criticism of the U.S., U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace described the Doha agreement in a Sky News interview as “a rotten deal” that “effectively told a Taliban that wasn’t winning that they were winning.”
“We will all, in the international community, probably pay the consequences of that,” he added.
I am sure the international community will be offering Sleepy a pat on the back for his foreign relations abilities.
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