What exactly was the plan in Afghanistan?
Washington wasn’t hoping for a victory. They were just hoping for a brutal civil war that would last long enough for them to save face
Afghanistan
Friday
Thursday
Did ‘gender studies’ lose Afghanistan?
How Ivy League diplomats sought to remake Afghanistan in Harvard’s image
Wednesday
Joe Biden and the grand battle of ideas
At his press conference in reaction to the fall of Kabul, Biden sounded Trumpian
Tuesday
Who wins the Afghanistan Dumbest Take Award?
Naturally, the ongoing debacle in Afghanistan allowed every player to put in their best performance
Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?
Alas, here we are, doomed to history repeating because of Biden’s disregard of all of the lessons of the previous debacle
Monday
Joe Biden’s short walk in the Hindu Kush
To say that what just happened in Afghanistan caught the Biden administration by surprise would be the understatement of the year
Biden gave the right speech at the wrong time
Americans want to know how things went to so badly. Biden didn’t give them that
Biden embraces his inner realist
Rather than conveying weakness, Biden projected resolve
Biden snoozed while Kabul fell
A crisis in leadership
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Sunday
‘Bit of a pickle’ — meet the British student stuck on vacation in Kabul
Routledge set off for Afghanistan with the optimism of Tintin but the geopolitical awareness of Captain Haddock
Wrong then, wrong now — Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy
Joe Biden’s public pronouncements on Afghanistan neatly signal the folly of American leadership in the last two decades
Autopsy of a failed war
Our longest war ends in another abject failure
What went wrong in Afghanistan
Corruption was entrenched in Afghanistan at the start of the conflict 20 years ago
Monday
How the US military got rich from Afghanistan
Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades
Friday
Give peace a chance
If America is to remain a superpower, the age of elective wars must end
Monday
We must help the Afghan interpreters
Our obligations in these cases are significant: a debt of honor and also a matter of national security
Thursday
Why is Trump banned from Twitter when the Taliban isn’t?
The official spokesman tweeted out a video of an Afghan security forces vehicle being blown up
Tuesday
Can the US redeem itself in Afghanistan?
The US engaged in ‘nation-building’ for the wrong reasons — and has seen bad results
Sunday
We are all Donald Rumsfeld
The late defense secretary is a scapegoat for the Establishment
