BBCNEWS The Papers August 16, 2021 22:46:00
The announcement to aid refugees. it feels like a shocking failure of intelligence, and the ability to try and second—guess what was actually going on on the ground there. there were still suggestions — i was interviewing people last week who said it could be 90 days before things changed. i spoke to a former ambassador to afghanistan, saying it's not a matter of if, but when. he suggested that the president could still hold on. there was still this faith in the afghan military even right up to the very end. and as a result, no one in the west seemed to see this coming. absolutely, and bid...