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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Merville Barracks in Colchester, Essex, today
ANTI-WAR campaigners called on Western governments today to abandon their flimsy arguments justifying the “war on terror” and welcome refugees fleeing the Taliban.
Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German challenged the British government to help Afghan refugees with reparations, saying that the 20-year intervention in Afghanistan was about “asserting Western imperialism, not championing human rights.”
Ms German said: “Those who argue for continued humanitarian intervention are spreading the illusion that this was ever on offer. It was not. It is therefore right for the troops to leave and for the Afghan people to decide their own future.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
