When President Joe Biden appeared in the White House East Room on July 8 to stress that the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan was proceeding apace, he declared that a Taliban takeover of the country was …
Biden’s Dangerous, Bumbling Afghanistan Doctrine
L istening to President Biden on Monday rationalize the mess he has made of Afghanistan has to be extraordinarily frustrating for people who do not closely follow politics and policy — the bad history …
Some of the people fleeing Afghanistan have started arriving in Houston
Many of the families lucky to leave right before the Taliban took over have started to arrive in Houston. These are people that had affiliation with US military.
Op-ed: America still has a chance to salvage something from the Afghanistan disaster
If we don’t try to turn this catastrophe around, it could be a disaster for America’s image worldwide, writes A.J. Fuentes Twombly.
The Afghanistan War Skeptics Were Right All Along
The Afghanistan skeptics were right. Inflation is slightly more inflated. Louis DeJoy is still running the post office. America is less White, whatever that means. Twenty years ago, Americans were …
Insider poll: Most Americans believe the US should have exited Afghanistan during the Bush years
Most respondents said they either didn’t know when the US should’ve left or said the same year it entered: 2001.
Americans rank George W. Bush as the president most responsible for the outcome of the Afghanistan war: Insider poll
Biden ranked second in the Insider poll, with 27% of respondents saying he’s most responsible for America’s failure in Afghanistan.
Western Union suspends money transfers to Afghanistan, cutting off ‘vital channel’ of financial support
Western Union is suspending money transfer America withdraws troops from the troubled country now in the Taliban’s control. “We recognize that our services provide a vital channel for our customers to …
The U.S. Offered My Family a Home After the Vietnam War. It Must Do the Same for Those Fleeing Afghanistan
The U.S. welcomed South Vietnamese refugees after the fall of Saigon. Now it must do the same for the people fleeing Afghanistan.
Leaving Vietnam: The One Man We Remembered
We are reposting it because of the obvious parallels to what’s now happening in Afghanistan. Even as Saigon was about to fall, Walt Whitman Rostow seemed determined to be the last hawk; he called for …