Tag: Afghanistan War
The war in Afghanistan is dead. Long live the war on...
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.
One year of Afghanistan war spending could fund resettlement of 1.2...
“We’ve spent billions on war. Now, let’s spend to bring Afghans to safety.”
The Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean counter-terrorism and the end of...
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.
Biden could have spared Afghanistan and US 6 months of pointless...
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.
Why the US won’t be able to shirk moral responsibility in...
There are significant moral costs at stake in either remaining in or withdrawing from Afghanistan.
America’s Afghan war is over, so what about Iraq—and Iran?
Let’s hope Biden has learned another history lesson: That the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries.
The true meaning of the Afghan “withdrawal”
Will the nightmare of Saigon's fall return in Kabul?
Contrary to what Biden said, U.S. warfare in Afghanistan is set...
The U.S. war in Afghanistan won’t end just because President Biden and U.S. news media tell us so.
Is the long war finally ending?
Withdrawing several thousand U.S. troops from Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg.
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