Tag: Middle East

Yes, it’s true, on the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, that war is long forgotten here.

Here's why Ukraine dominates media coverage.

Afghanistan, the United States’ chaotic withdrawal notwithstanding, could emerge as another example of the positive impact when global interests coincide.

Middle East experts who opposed America’s post-9/11 wars were ridiculed as anti-American extremists. In reality, it was the pro-war right that was making us less safe.

The true lessons of the Afghan war...

The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention.

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.

“We’ve spent billions on war. Now, let’s spend to bring Afghans to safety.”

Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he's launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.

“Americans do not fully understand, do not acknowledge, the sacrifices that allies made in Afghanistan,” said the report’s author.