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British MP: It's shameful to see Biden question
the courage of the Afghan troops I fought with
A quietly brutal speech, worth every minute of your time. Tom Tugendhat is a veteran of the British military who was stationed in Helmand province and is among the many, many people to take issue with Biden’s self-serving claim this week that Americans shouldn’t be asked to fight for people who won’t fight for themselves. They did fight, Tugendhat reminds him. In fact, they took 500 times more KIAs in the past six years than we did. The idea that Afghan troops failed because they lacked the guts rather than the logistical support to carry on is a useful deception for the White House in convincing Americans with misgivings that withdrawal wasn’t just strategically correct but morally correct.
Referring to the 'self-serving' speech Biden gave after returning to DC in the middle of his vacation as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and thousands of Americans were left behind, Tom Tugendhat, a veteran of the British military who was stationed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, harshly - and appropriately - rebuked President Biden for blaming the Afghanis for HIS disastrous Afghanistan retreat.
It’s hard to believe that the president could have made this week’s humiliation worse by the speech he gave on Monday but he did. Tugendhat’s remarks make that clear:
“To see their commander in chief call into question the courage of men I fought with, is shameful.”
“Those who have never fought for the colors they fly should be careful about criticizing those who have”