The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan blasted Joe Biden for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, calling it a “real blow for American prestige,” worse than World War II or the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“It basically ceded a huge amount of authority and power and influence in the world from the West to the authoritarian state of Iran and North Korea, but particularly China and Russia,” retired Colonel Richard Kemp told Breitbart, per Just the News.
He said the exit was “the greatest foreign affairs and military catastrophe since the Second World War, without a doubt.”
“If you combine the Vietnam fiasco and Suez [Crisis] for the British, it’s worse than the two of those combined in its magnitude and its implications,” he said. “It’s certainly worse than 9/11, which was maybe the result of intelligence failure and possibly could have been prevented.”
He also called the exit a “self-inflicted wound” that was the result of “a deliberate policy decision...against the advice of his generals.”
“Basically it’s a real blow for American prestige which will not be recovered from probably for decades,” he continued.
