From invasion to exposure: Britain's costly Afghan misadventure

As Britain grapples with the fallout from the leak of 19,000 Afghan collaborators' names—exposing them to deadly risk—the finger-pointing has begun in earnest.

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Yet, the real fiasco did not begin with this leak. It began with a far graver mistake: the invasion of Afghanistan itself.

Calls for a public inquiry into the leaked list are likely to emerge, probably a grand, judge-led spectacle stretching over years, a familiar political ritual that ultimately kicks embarrassing questions into the long grass. But such inquiries rarely assign blame to those truly responsible, and one can bet that former Prime Minister Tony Blair—the architect of Britain's Afghan adventure—will emerge unscathed.

The Unnecessary War