A whistleblower in the United Kingdom says the country’s Foreign Office was in a state of chaos during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The UK and US evacuated thousands of Afghans from Kabul this past August. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with a retired British soldier and Afghan veteran, Andrew Fox, about what he makes of the whistleblower’s comments and how he thinks the UK government handled the crisis.
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