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Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, condemned the withdrawal of the United States.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister who sent troops to Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks 20 years ago, said "all jihadist organizations around the world" praised the States' decision. United to leave the country.

In a lengthy essay published on his website Saturday night, the former Labor leader warned that the brutal and chaotic withdrawal that allowed the Taliban to regain power risks undermining everything that has been achieved in Afghanistan over the past two decades. previous ones, including the increase in the standard of living. and girls' education.

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"Leaving Afghanistan and its people is horrible, dangerous, unnecessary, neither in their interests nor in ours," said Blair, who was prime minister from 1997 to 2007, during which time he also supported the American invasion of Iraq. in 2003

"At the moment, the world is unsure of the position of the West, as it is clear that the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in this way was dictated by politics, and not by grand strategy." , he added.

Blair also accused US President Joe Biden of acting "under the silly political slogan of ending 'Eternal Wars', as if our commitments in 2021 were even equal to our commitments 20 or even 10 years ago."

The former Prime Minister, whose reputation in the UK has suffered from the failure to locate the alleged weapons of mass destruction used to justify the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq, said that Britain had a "moral obligation" to stay. in Afghanistan until all those to be evacuated are evacuated.

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