President Ice Cream’s Afghan meltdown
There is quite a lot of that Yes-No, Did-Didn’t, whiplashing these days
Taliban
Wednesday
Tuesday
Is Afghanistan to blame for Biden’s sinking popularity — or is COVID?
Biden getting the Trump treatment teaches us an important lesson about American journalism
Friday
Biden’s press conference was a feast of disinformation
Americans are forming the indelible impression that this president is incompetent
Is Joe Biden OK?
The President has shown a complete failure to lead during the biggest scandal since he took office
The last war for democracy
Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing
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
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
Thursday
Why progressives have no sense of proportion
Why does the Biden administration have harsher words for Ron DeSantis than for the Taliban?
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
Friday
A tale of two Afghanistan withdrawals
The media has mastered the art of the thinly sourced bombshell — soon followed by the subtle retraction
Tuesday
The wars go on
Seventy-five years after the end of World War Two we still have forces in Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy
Friday
BREAKING: Pompeo to sign historic peace agreement with Taliban
Talks resumed after the Taliban promised that they would be open to reducing violence
