Truss’s warmongering rhetoric is empty, antagonistic – and wildly dangerous | Simon Jenkins

The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre of conflict

Was anything learned? On the first anniversary of Britain’s defeat in Afghanistan there is only silence. The previous defeat in Iraq saw a searing public inquiry in 2016. It concluded that Iraq had posed “no imminent threat”. The war was “unnecessary”, and based on dodgy intelligence, dubious legality and feeble attempts at avoidance. But Iraq was the “bad” war. Afghanistan was...