Donald Trump is a divisive figure. But with his careless, callous and disgraceful remarks about the service given by British and other allies in Afghanistan, he has succeeded in uniting nations – if only against him.
“A little off the front line” was the smear against Nato troops that he tossed into a television interview. Rather than concede that, after 9/11, many non-Americans made the ultimate sacrifice or suffered life-changing injuries when Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty was triggered – for the first and only time in the organisation’s 76-year history – by the United States.
