There is no better commentary on Joe Biden’s decision to abandon Afghanistan than Winston Churchill’s statement to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after the disastrous Munich Agreement, in which Chamberlain acceded to Hitler’s demands to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia:

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour.  You chose dishonour and you will have war.”

This was said 83 years ago, in the prelude to a war in which at least 70 million people died.  A shame Biden is not a student of history – a subject about which Churchill knew more than a little.

• Kenneth D. Gough © 2021