Sleepless nights for the mangy British lion

America's abandonment of Afghanistan has left its principal ally cruelly exposed

I wrote here that, in the wake of the Afghanistan catastrophe, the countries of the free world will be anxiously asking themselves how they might defend themselves in future now that the United States has shown itself to be a faithless friend and a frighteningly weak link in the defence of the west. 

In fact, it’s worse than that. In pulling up its drawb…