Началось публичное посыпание головы пеплом. Пал не только Кабул, мы все пали...
Kabul has fallen and so have we. For this is not just about Afghanistan, it’s about us, the oft-invoked “international community”. It’s about how Australia – and the West – will be perceived. Untrustworthy, unreliable, disloyal. It must surely carry a message, a predilection to not follow through that which was promised, a defeat not only militarily but of professed values.