Mr. Wallace, who served in the Scottish Guard, tried to hold back his tears when he talked about the 20 years of sacrifice that people have suffered to witness the city fall into the Taliban.
UK The army is now racing against time to drive out the remaining British nationals and their local allies Afghanistan After the country’s Western-backed government collapsed sharply.
It is believed that about 4,000 British nationals and eligible Afghans are in the city and need to be evacuated.
As part of the evacuation operation from Afghanistan, the first flight carrying British nationals arrived in the UK last night. The embassy staff was one of the people who arrived at Britz Norton in the Royal Air Force overnight.
A picture posted by the Ministry of Defense on Twitter shows that as the United Kingdom stepped up its efforts to evacuate as many as 1,500 people from Afghanistan every day, people are leaving the plane.
But on Monday, Mr. Wallace began to choke in an interview with LBC Radio and concluded that not everyone will come back.
“We are not performing any diplomatic functions, we are just dealing with all British passport holders there and those we are obligated to deal with.
“Our armed forces personnel risked their lives to do this, but this is the right approach.
“In the past two decades, they risked their lives. At least our obligation is to let as many people as possible through the pipeline.
“For me, this is a very deep regret…Look, some people will not come back. Some people will not come back, and we will have to do our best to deal with these people in a third country.”
When asked why he was “so personal” to this situation, Mr. Wallace replied: “Because I am a soldier…because this is sad, the West has already done what it did. We must do our best to get people out and stand up. Our obligation and 20 years of sacrifice are just like that.”
After the government’s Cobra Emergency Committee meeting, Boris Johnson His top priority is to get the British nationals and Afghans working with them to leave the country “as soon as possible.”
“We will go out as much as possible in the next few days,” he said.
When the “Operation Pitting” rescue operation involving 600 soldiers was announced last weekend, the Secretary of Defense stated that it may continue until the rest of the month.
But the speed of the Taliban’s advancement suggests that it may only take a few days for people to leave.
It is said that Sir Laurie Bristow, the British ambassador, is helping a small group of diplomats who are still in the country to process applications from people who wish to leave, indicating a critical situation.
For fear of falling into the hands of the insurgents and facing reprisals, they are particularly worried about the safety of Afghans who work with the British army while serving as translators and other roles in the country.
The Taliban insist that they are seeking peaceful seizure of power and are preparing to amnesty those who have cooperated with the Afghan government or foreign governments.
However, due to reports that those who stayed behind and their families were threatened, many members of the British Parliament were deeply skeptical of these guarantees.
The Labour Party called on the government to urgently expand the resettlement plan for Afghans to ensure that no one is left behind.
Lisa Nandi, the shadow foreign secretary, said: “Some of them have been killed, others have been threatened against themselves and their families.
“As a country, we have an obligation to ensure their safety.”
Mr. Johnson insisted that Britain will continue to work with “like-minded” allies to ensure that Afghanistan no longer becomes a “hotbed of terrorist activities” as it did before the September 11 attacks in 2001.
But his words may appear hollow among many members of Congress, who warned that the credibility of the West has been fundamentally compromised by the dramatic failure of its 20-year nation-building experiment.
