投稿者: Simon Jenkins
The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre of conflictWas anything learned? On the first anniversary of Britain’s defeat in Afghanistan there is only silence. The previous defeat in Iraq…
Biden isn’t the first president to promise never to wage another war of intervention | Simon Jenkins
Military adventurism has long appealed to western politicians – even those who say they will not meddle in others’ affairsJoe Biden declares an end to “an era of major military operations to remake other countries”. A president’s job, he says, is to pr…
The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of his 2001 invasionImbecilic, tragic, dangerous and unnecessary are the words used by Tony Blair to describe the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and Bri…
British MPs have turned on Boris Johnson – but what tidy end did they expect from this imperialist experiment?Britain’s MPs this week uttered one long howl of anguish over Afghanistan. Their immediate targets were Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, politicia…
Britain’s justifications for invading were having influence and deterring terror. They are just neo-imperialist platitudesThe longest, most pointless and unsuccessful war that Britain has fought in the past 70 years – its intervention in Afghanistan – …