KATE Garraway launched into a furious rant over the increasingly fraught situation in Afghanistan on today’s Good Morning Britain.
The presenter took umbrage with Prime Minister Boris Johnsons’ comments over the weekend after the Taliban seized control of Kabul following the withdrawal of British and US troops.
Boris had said: “I think it is very important that the West should work collectively to get over to that new government, be it by the Taliban or anybody else ,that nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror and we don’t think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status.”
Clearly concerned, Kate asked: “So, has the whole thing just been a gigantic failure?
“You hear Boris Johnson saying ‘Oh we mustn’t let this become an area for terror to breed’, but it’s going to be!
“What’s going to stop it?”
Kate was joined during the debate by co-presenter Charlotte Hawkins, Kevin Maguire, and Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell.
Kate went on to question Kevin when he said the Western presence in Afghanistan had been a “20 year experiment”.
She said: “I don’t know, Kevin, because if you’re the Taliban and you’re in there listening and you hear all these people are going, if you’re a government in such an unstable part of the world, you just feel like the forces that have been supporting you are abandoning you, don’t you?
“They must be ingrained over so many centuries, the inevitability of that kind of that kind of their political system coming back over.
“It just must have felt inevitable and they were better to run and flee for their safety rather than get to another massive conflict.”
US President Joe Biden detonated the crisis by ordering all forces to leave by September 11.
Boris Johnson had no choice but to follow suit.
Fighters yesterday took over the presidential palace ahead of what they claim will be a “peaceful transfer of power”.
Meanwhile, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled his office and is believed to have taken asylum in Tajikistan.
More than 2,000 Brits were still trapped in Afghanistan last night.
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