How Afghanistan withdrawal could lead to a harder policy against China
Biden is getting attacked on all sides for putting its ‘credibility’ on the Taiwan issue at risk. Will he cave to it?
Biden is getting attacked on all sides for putting its ‘credibility’ on the Taiwan issue at risk. Will he cave to it?
It should be no surprise then, that Americans are shocked at the images of violence and the grim political situation on the ground today.
Now is not the time for bureaucracy or delay. The United States will only get one opportunity to get this right.
But all bets are off if the United States starts rekindling a civil conflict there.
These members bucked their parties and risked alienation (and primaries), but stood their ground on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Our ability to manage the Middle East and Central Asia has reached a critical turning point in Afghanistan. We should heed that.
There are too many careers and too much money tied to American power projection. So expect it to shift, not recede from the stage.
The world watches as the Afghan government tragically teeters on the brink and America reflects on its failed policies there.
Rejoining the JCPOA was a comparatively straightforward task which is taking too much time and effort to complete.
Cities are falling to the Taliban at a rapid pace, but the conditions for failure were set long before the US troop withdrawal this summer.
It would seem the American people aren’t ready for a conflict with China over Taiwan. But are both sides ready to compromise?
The Biden administration must address this strategically or there will be nothing left of the ‘global order’ as we know it.
George W. Bush, the architect of our 9/11 wars, is trying to tell us how to think and feel about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Major Emirati-funded DC policy organizations have said remarkably little about the country’s illicit influence.
He was a colleague and a principled truth-teller during an era of war, hubris, and Beltway banditry.
Brilliant, sophisticated, and absolutely dogged in his criticism of the Pentagon ‘self-licking ice cream cone,’ his death leaves a gaping hole.
With no end in sight and violence under the radar but ongoing, this is one ‘forever war’ that Biden risks perpetuating.
The US has a bad habit of acquiring clients and partners and exaggerating their importance to justify continued entanglements.
Unlike primacists, this ‘coalition’ actually embraces an internationalism that respects the rule of law, and diplomacy.
An essay aimed at taking down the ‘Quincy coalition’ and restraint has revealed the true face of global hegemony.
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