The financial crisis moved me to inspect other corners of our … Yesterday Joe Biden announced he would leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, ending the war just short of 20 years. Nearly half my …
First 100: Out of Afghanistan, Again
The financial crisis moved me to inspect other corners of our … Yesterday Joe Biden announced he would leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, ending the war just short of 20 years. Nearly half my …
The Daily 202: On Afghanistan, Biden makes his biggest foreign policy gamble yet
Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! Tell your friends to sign up here. Without declaring victory or hoisting a “mission accomplished” banner, President Biden today will announce an end to the U.S.
The Daily 202: On Afghanistan, Biden makes his biggest foreign policy gamble yet
Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! Tell your friends to sign up here. Without declaring victory or hoisting a “mission accomplished” banner, President Biden today will announce an end to the U.S.
US Troops to Leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, a Democrat, said Washington could cut off financial assistance to Afghanistan “if there is backsliding on civil society, the …
US Troops to Leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, a Democrat, said Washington could cut off financial assistance to Afghanistan “if there is backsliding on civil society, the …
CIA head says Afghanistan withdrawal ‘will diminish’ US intelligence efforts
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said Wednesday that the planned withdrawal of U.S. military from Afghanistan would hurt the agency’s ability to gather intelligence in the country.
My brother served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Biden’s pledge is a huge relief
It was a few weeks before American forces — already stationed in Afghanistan for a year and a half — would invade Iraq. I could not serve because of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — but that was fine with me.
Regime-change through American military action failed in Vietnam — and now it fails in Afghanistan
The corrupt Afghan government that the United States propped up will crumble as our remaining troops leave. It took a long, long time for the United States to accept the fact that we had lost the …
Why Biden is pulling the US — and NATO — out of Afghanistan
As President Biden prepares to lay out his plan Wednesday to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and end America’s longest war, a source familiar with his thinking tells me that he thinks no amount of …