LONDON: England on Friday slams the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, warning the rise of the Taliban will create a breeding place for extremists who threaten the world.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on Thursday announced that around 600 soldiers would help evacuate English citizens from the country, because Islamists took more control.
But he told Sky News television, the US decision to draw troops “left a very big problem on the ground”, handed over the momentum to the Taliban.
He estimates that it will benefit al-Qaeda, which was given a safe place by the Taliban before the attack on September 11, 2001 which encouraged the involvement of 20 years in Afghanistan.
“I’m really worried that failed countries are breeding places for such people,” he added.
“Of course Al-Qaeda may be back,” he said, a warning that will lead to “security threats for us and our interests.” “I feel that it is a mistake to do it that way, that all of us as an international community may pay the consequences of it,” Wallace said about the DOHA agreement signed between the United States and the Taliban.
The agreement, which was signed under former US President Donald Trump last year, left Britain without choice but withdraw his troops, he said.
600 British troops were sent to Afghanistan to help with repatriation close to 750 England in this country before withdrawal.
They will help up to 3,000 leave of British citizens, Wallace said.
The important commentary of the minister about withdrawal is among several of the Top Military Senior and Brass Politicians.
The chairman of the foreign affairs voter committee in parliament, Tom Tugendhat, told the BBC: “We just pulled the rug from below them,” referring to the Afghans.
Conservative MP adds that the needs of the UK to send more troops to facilitate the withdrawal are “failure” signs “.
Former Minister of Development Rory Stewart was called the withdrawal of troops “a total betrayal by the US and by the UK” at risk of triggering a civil war between rival warlords which currently persist against the Taliban.
Johnny Mercer, a member of the conservative parliament and former Veteran Minister who served in Afghanistan, called the “disgrace” withdrawal.
“I think it’s embarrassing for the British military, for families who lose individuals there but above all it is a big tragedy for Afghan people, who have been through so many years,” he told radio.
“We have chosen this defeat and embarrassing.”
UK said we were withdrawal from Afghanistan ‘error’
