Afghanistan: Clear case of how humanitarian intervention can morph into military control

Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees, who have been forced by the Tanzanian authorities to return to their country despite fears they will be killed upon their return, stream back towards the Rwandan border on a road in Tanzania in 1996. It was in the wake of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 that ‘humanitarian intervention’ came to be used by the international community. File photo: AP /Jean-Marc Bouju

Joe Biden is being dragged over the coals for the impetuous capitulation of the US involvement in Afghanistan. 

The ‘hawks’ in the US administration see this as an embarrassing defeat, making America look weak, which is the greatest imaginable sin. Others are merely accusing Biden of condemning innocent women, men and children to a certain destiny of unspeakable suffering and death.