No lessons learned

I BELIEVE Afghanistan will descend into a lawless state, a haven for extremists who wish harm to us.

Whatever the media-savvy Taliban spokesmen spout, it won’t filter down to the foot soldiers. i am sceptical that we could ever sit at a negotiating table.

Before World War ii, my father was on surveillance duty at the khyber Pass when he was shot in the leg.

HE used to tell me that if the tribes that patrolled the mountains ever banded together and grew ambitious for power, they would be a formidable enemy. he would have hated to see the gains we made abandoned to whatever savage reprisals the Taliban see fit to enforce.

MARY WINDSOR, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts.

THIS quotation from the Flashman novels should be framed and hung in no 10 and the Foreign office: ‘Regardless of modern military might, you will never defeat the local tribesman hiding behind a boulder with his bow and arrow, or his Afghan rifle, because it’s his boulder, do you see.’

If this advice, based on historical experience, had been followed, how many lives and how much money might have been saved?

LES BECKETT, Llangattock, Powys.

The left thought Joe Biden was going to be a more considered and caring U.S. President than Donald Trump. how wrong they were by thinking being woke was more important than keeping their country safe from another 9/11.

JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks.