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The West’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the country’s subsequent fall to the Taliban, has brought the number of refugees the UK should take back to the forefront of the political conversation. It is eerily familiar: many of the same ideas were being advanced by many of the same people in 2015 at the height of the Syria crisis.
Earlier this year, Ayaan Hirsi Ali did an interview with UnHerd in which she predicted exactly this, and warned about not making the same mistakes again:
Her view was that, in retrospect, the more moderate approach of David Cameron should be seen as morally superior and better leadership than the policies of Angela Merkel and countries like Sweden, which took in much higher numbers of refugees:
Will the media, opposition and Government remember the lessons of 2015 in the forthcoming Afghanistan refugee crisis?
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