BBCNEWS The Papers August 18, 2021 21:33:00
With dereliction of duty, of not grasping the strength of the taliban and how quickly they would be able to take control of the country as soon as troops were withdrawn. starmer in particular has criticised johnson for going on holiday, saying you can't deal with a crisis like this whilst you're at the beach. and that widespread, i thinkjustified criticism ofjohnson and dominic raab basically, like the us in many ways, reallyjust underestimating the extent to which the taliban had been able to build a shadow state already, and the ease with which the state would assert itself as soon as the tr...