“The bitter pill”

Added to all the above, is the total lack of trust in our own politicians.

Nothing and nobody can be trusted.

The new world!

Dan

While the US, UK, EU and Canada have declared that they will not recognise the Taliban regime, what passes for a foreign minister in Australia said she would wait and see if the Taliban lived up to its promises on women, etc, before a decision would be made!

Only to be expected from a Morrison minister, I suppose.

As one commentator observes, the Morrison government seems to be treating foreign policy the same way it does domestic policy - pragmatically, without values.

Sorry, Graham. Se no upsides in any of this! Just humiliation and loss of credibility!
Alan B.

The 20th. anniversary of September 11 is comes less than a month after this Afghan humiliation. Something to think about.

TBH Alan, I'm pessimistic too. But what does wallowing in misery achieve? And TTBN, I'm shocked that our Defence Minister would say anything so inane, but then when it came to bad speeches about this situation I picked on Biden, because his was the most relevant. But Morrison's was just about as bad. No empathy. And no anger. That will be his downfall - people think he fakes it all the time.