Tony Blair, the British prime minister who deployed troops to Afghanistan 20 years ago after the 9/11 attacks, says the U.S. decision to withdraw from the country has “every Jihadist group round the world cheering”. The former Labour Party leader said in a lengthy essay posted on his website late Saturday that the sudden and chaotic pullout allowed the Taliban to reclaim power, which risked undermining everything that had been achieved in Afghanistan over the past two decades, including advances in living standards and the education of girls.
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