UK Foreign Secretary on Afghanistan ROLE - Biden Era

BBC News - Live Blog: Reports in its 5.05pm post the following, " Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the evacuation effort - which he says has been in place for four months - has three strands.

All British nationals were urged to leave Afghanistan back in April, he says - and many hundreds did so on commercial flights.

Since the security situation worsened last weekend, the government started chartering flights, he says. The first one left Kabul on Sunday with about 150 UK nationals and their dependants on board.

"In the last 24 hours, 646 people have been evacuated - a combination of nationals, Afghans who work for us and UK allies - and there will be eight flights following today."

Lets Get Real:

It is fair to say that the House of Commons was not very impressed with President Biden and the manner of his decision for the US to leave Afghanistan.  The question was asked, does the West need other leadership than the US, this fall of Afghanistan is a military and foreign policy disaster that could have been avoided if Biden had kept a few US troops in the Country.  The problem was there is no one to say your wrong and we are doing this, as a Senator it did not matter what Biden thought about foreign policy, he was one of a hundred, and as Vice - President he was over ruled by President Obama.  The US has sacrificed its role of leadership of the West at the ALTAR of the Biden ego.   The UK could not get allies to agree to keep a few troops in Afghanistan, thus the Baltic States, Poland, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, Iraq will be asking can they trust the US to come to their side if they are in trouble.  The UK should have kept a few troops in Afghanistan and SHAME Biden to staying, sometimes a US President has to be politically shamed in to doing things, that is just politics.