LONDON (Reuters) -British lawmakers vented their anger on Wednesday at Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden over the collapse of Afghanistan into Taliban hands, calling it a failure of intelligence, leadership and moral duty. “There’s been a major miscalculation of the resilience of the Afghan forces and staggering complacency from our government about the Taliban,” Starmer said. Several lawmakers on Wednesday focused on the U.S. decision to withdraw – a move which Johnson admitted left Britain with no choice but to pull out its own forces – and Biden’s subsequent criticism of Afghan forces’ surrender. “To see (Biden) call into question the courage of men I fought with, to claim that they ran, is shameful. Labour lawmaker Chris Bryant called for the programme to be accelerated, asking: “What are the (other) 15,000 meant to do?

Source: MetroXpress August 18, 2021 10:40 UTC