Ailidh
The West (and not just the UK) playing war games in someone else's country.
The white man making moral decisions in the brown man's country from a position of self-perceived superiority.
For generations after arrogant generations.
I remember the Soviet-Afghan War, and how the West armed the "brave Afghan freedom fighters" to fight the Soviets. I've no idea if those Afghans became Al Qaeda or The Taliban or both but, as others have said, it seemed to come as a surprise to the West when the Afghans didn't want to kowtow to them.
I am horrified by the British's part in the West's part in Afghanistan.
I am horrified at the plight of those Afghans who worked alongside western troops and who must be utterly petrified.
I am horrified at the recruiting power for new terrorist groups that this abandonment will generate, for if in real life it isn't meant to be an abandonment, that must be what it surely feels like.
Do tell what part of enabling Education and health care is making moral decisions in the brown mans country. The Afghans served alongside the British and other allies, for one thing, money. Plenty of blue on blue killings showed which side they were really on. Abandonment, so you wanted the US and allies to stay forever, pumping money and lives into a country that hated them. The brown man who ran away and deserted his people and his country, taking all their money with him.. The British combat troops left in 2014. We were helping to train Afghan troops. Lot of good and wasted money that was.