Tony Blair damns the Afghan withdrawal but he would do better to show remorse | Simon Jenkins

The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of his 2001 invasion

Imbecilic, tragic, dangerous and unnecessary are the words used by Tony Blair to describe the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and Britain’s as well. The former British prime minister believes the west should stay to protect the “gains” achieved by his original invasion in 2001, and by implication by the deaths of 457 British soldiers. As it is, Britain has been “relegated from t...