An Afghan tragedy unfolding

There are no positives to elicit from the disaster that has befallen Afghanistan. Joe Biden and Boris Johnson and a host of other western government types are looking earnest and saying how important it is to get everyone out of the country as quickly and as safely as possible but no one in power seems yet ready to admit that they have been responsible for one of the great strategic failures of modern times or acknowledge deep concern that the decision to pull out all troops and abandon the Afghans to Taliban brutality has given the people of that country a bleak and scary future. Biden owes the US people and the Afghan people an explanation and although he won't apologise for what he has done, at least an acknowledgement that his policy hasn't quite worked out the way he hoped or expected. There are now more foreign troops in Afghanistan than at any time in recent months but they are all at Kabul airport guarding the place as thousands of people desperately try to get on planes out of Afghanistan. It's a sorry sorry sight and a tragedy of appalling proportions.