The biggest problems in how the Afghanistan story has been told
The US media’s coverage of the withdrawal focused on drama at the expense of the more important bigger picture.
The US media’s coverage of the withdrawal focused on drama at the expense of the more important bigger picture.
The reconstruction was largely a failure that could have been avoided, and SIGAR said this all along. Was anyone listening?
Not only would this be the “Saigon moment” Biden is trying to avoid, it would signal a full-scale diplomatic abandonment of Afghanistan.
Will the departure of some 3,000 American troops from Afghanistan be a harbinger of a more fundamental realignment of U.S. Middle East security policy?