On a lighter and more refreshing note.

The sudden and short timeframed US and UK total withdrawal of troops from that failed state is the right thing to do. The western media seem to be largely critical about the speed but Biden's 'let's get the fuck outta there' looks wise to me.

Twenty years of trying to turn a basket case country into something resembling a functioning nation state has failed miserably. Trillions have been spent equipping and training the Afghan military and when it came to it they refused to fight. The old adage 'people get the government they deserve' has never been truer.

Some countries are born crap, live crap and die crap. Nazi Germany, Iraq, The Soviet Union, The Vatican etc. Afghanistan belongs in that category.