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The Roman Empire pioneered war as a march of folly. And America is just the latest one to follow Rome’s primrose path. Only that explains it trying to build Afghanistan in its Jeffersonian image. Meanwhile, 9/11 commemorations have become more like boring, ritualized Church services than the solemn occasions they once were. Read more.
At this point, Afghanistan is beginning to rival Haiti as the most godforsaken country on Earth… Heavy rain and strong winds were frustrating search and rescue efforts late Wednesday after a massive earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 and injuring more than 1,600, government officials said. A sudden downpour washed away roads leading… Read more.
Many Americans are just too jingoistic to concede that the Taliban won this 20-year war. But the way the Taliban presided over America’s humiliating retreat from Kabul last month betrays the truth. As it happened, I declared the Taliban and al-Qaeda the winners 10 years ago. I argued that terror alerts had been spooking us… Read more.
China has been leading the chorus of authoritarian countries expressing unbridled schadenfreude over America’s humiliating and tragic retreat from Afghanistan. Its official state news agency, Xinhua, set the tone with an August 16 headline that read: The ‘fall of Kabul’ rings the funeral bell of US hegemony But its unofficial state newspaper, the Global Times,… Read more.
Russia and China are leading the chorus of countries gloating over America’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan. These of course are the same two countries that have been undermining elections, fomenting unrest, and even discrediting vaccines to make America look so dysfunctional and unlivable that their countries would look more attractive by comparison, respectively. But there… Read more.
Post-Brexit Britain has been finding itself increasingly isolated on the world stage. This might explain why it seizes any opportunity to seem relevant. This was the case when the British media hailed the fact that Britain was the destination of President Biden’s first foreign trip. And it is the case now with them hailing Prime… Read more.
America spent 20 years investing lots of blood and treasure to build an Afghanistan that could fend off the Taliban. Yet the world is watching things fall apart in just 20 weeks after President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all US troops. But who would’ve thought this was possible? And don’t blame it all… Read more.
United States intelligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan. … Mr. Trump defended himself by denying the Times report that he had been briefed on the intelligence, expanding on a… Read more.
For the record, I’ve been declaring America’s war in Afghanistan a lost cause for nearly 15 years. This, because it has been patently clear for at least that long that this war is eerily reminiscent of Vietnam … in every unwinnable respect. As I have noted on previous occasions, the titles to just a few… Read more.
Like Obama, Trump made ending America’s longest war a signature promise of his presidential campaign. We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let’s get out! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2013 Now, like Obama, he’s reneging on that promise just months into his… Read more.
