The Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean counter-terrorism and the end of bloated nation-building
Ironically, the collapse of the Afghanistan government is a powerful argument that the state-builders and counter-insurgency advocates failed miserably, but Biden took the blame for it.
After 20 years of lies and war, US retreat underway as Taliban retake control...
"It's like the United States lost another war after destabilizing a country that will likely be a failed state for decades, something which has happened multiple times in the 'War on Terrorism.'"
Biden could have spared Afghanistan and US 6 months of pointless war by just...
The Taliban opted to push the U.S. out, understandably not believing that Biden was anymore sincere about ending the war and leaving their country than were presidents Bush, Obama or Trump before him.
Biden must call off the B-52s bombing Afghan cities
As we approach the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we should reflect on how the Bush administration exploited the U.S. public’s thirst for revenge to unleash this bloody, tragic and utterly futile 20-year war.
Answering the armies of the cheated
What happened was this: shortly after the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive ideological fever.
In a dangerous time: Toward preventing a disastrous US-China war
A new and global Cold War with China or, worse, a hot and potentially nuclear war with China, are the last things that humanity needs.
Moral injury and the forever wars
What Americans don’t want to hear...
Pivoting to America
Let’s reinvent the U.S. military for real national defense...
Why the US won’t be able to shirk moral responsibility in leaving Afghanistan
There are significant moral costs at stake in either remaining in or withdrawing from Afghanistan.
America’s Afghan war is ending. What about Iraq — and Iran?
Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he's launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.