[Hoot Gibson]

The Biden administration's incompetence has created a foreign policy disaster. Afghanistan is blessed with some of the world's richest deposits of rare earth elements. China is rushing in to cut deals with the Taliban to exploit those deposits. Biden has handed the Chinese Communist Party another big win.

Newspaper headlines: MPs condemn US president, and Johnson 'humiliated'

[b]The Parliamentary debate on Afghanistan is the main story for most of the papers - with many focusing on the criticism aimed at Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.[/b]

"Asleep at the wheel", is the headline in the Metro. For the Guardian, it's "Johnson humiliated".

The Guardian says the prime minister faced a wall of fury from all wings of the Conservative Party, with 11 former cabinet ministers among the dozens of MPs and peers expressing anger and frustration at the UK's failures in intelligence and preparation.

A number of papers also highlight anger at Joe Biden - with the Daily Telegraph headline: "Parliament holds the president in contempt". It describes the criticism as an unprecedented rebuke to a US president.

An unnamed cabinet minister tells the Times the US failure to realise that Afghanistan was on the brink of collapse shows that America is "looking inward and is unwilling to do even a modest amount to maintain global order".
The minister adds: "The US remains by far and away our most important ally, but we are not Washington's most important ally by some stretch."