Give them safe haven

SEEING desperate Aghans falling from a US military evacuation flight was as distressing as witnessing Americans jumping from the Twin Towers on 9/11.

These linked deaths, 20 years apart, are the human cost of political, military and intelligence failures by the world’s greatest superpower in a battle with a brutal regime and its terrorist allies.

After the bewilderingly swift collapse of the Kabul regime following two decades of international support and finance, the US, UK and their allies clearly failed to establish a new order in the country.

When fighting the Taliban again is not a realistic option, Britain and the US are duty bound to offer a safe haven to as many Afghan refugees – particularly women – that we can airlift out of the nightmare.

We owe it to them and the soldiers who died over the past 20 years.