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Tom Tugendhat, an Afghanistan veteran in Westminster

2021-09-08T16:18:36.299Z


INQUIRY - This Conservative MP, who chairs the influential foreign affairs committee, recently fought for the exfiltration of dozens of Afghan friends threatened by the Taliban. Very critical of the American withdrawal, he calls on the British leaders to shoot ...


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His words are weighted. They have the weight of the ground, are loaded with dust and mud, tears and blood sometimes too. In front of his peers in the House of Commons, Tom Tugendhat did not content himself with handling geopolitical concepts or stirring up political polemics. He spoke of what he knows, a very real and embodied Afghanistan, a country in which he served and where he fought. And when he spoke of his former Afghan fighting comrades, translators and all those to whom the British soldiers had made promises on behalf of their government, emotion won the MPs who reserved for the speaker a long round of applause. This country so far, suddenly, approached.

Since the Taliban began their conquering march on Kabul, Tom Tugendhat has spent sleepless nights to hold the thread between him and his Afghan friends and help them extricate themselves from this trap.

"A good number of them came out

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Source: lefigaro

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