Will Americans who were right on Afghanistan still be ignored?
After spending trillions of dollars and killing millions of people, the abysmal record of U.S. war-making since World War II remains a tragic litany of failure and defeat, even on its own terms.
“The Afghanistan Papers”: Docs show how Bush, Obama, Trump lied about brutality & corruption...
“All these presidents said we were going to win the war, and yet, in private, these officials were extremely pessimistic.”
The war in Afghanistan is dead. Long live the war on terror?
In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden left the door open for more “counterterrorism” — with serious implications for our foreign policy, politics, and legal system.
The all-American base world
750 U.S. military bases still remain around the planet...
Does the future belong to the Taliban?
Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists.
Why did the Afghanistan army fold so fast? Because they had nothing to fight...
Lessons go unlearned...
Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?
This external approach, based on military occupation, to promote democracy in occupied foreign countries was “doomed to fail.”
Blood in the sand
The U.S. has nothing to show for its efforts after trillions of dollars were spent on wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond, but blood in the sand.
One year of Afghanistan war spending could fund resettlement of 1.2 million refugees
“We’ve spent billions on war. Now, let’s spend to bring Afghans to safety.”