Hedging Saudi bets: Iran looms, Israel beckons, and Taliban cause goosebumps
Some analysts have noted that Saudi Arabia was absent among the Gulf states that helped the United States with evacuations from Afghanistan.
Some analysts have noted that Saudi Arabia was absent among the Gulf states that helped the United States with evacuations from Afghanistan.
Thursday’s ghastly bombings reflect a real threat to the Taliban’s new-found control over the country — and to the U.S. evacuation on the ground.
Start by asking who benefited from the protracted war, a question that will elicit uncomfortable truths about Washington.
The privateer is reportedly doing what he does best — lending a hand to stranded souls for cold hard cash.
Billions of dollars of US materiel is now in the Taliban’s hands; but which leader will be taken to task for it, or for anything?
They were the media darlings of their times, but we are still living with ‘King David’s’ mistakes and his love affair with the press.
These overseas installations are now scattered across 81 countries, colonies, or territories on every continent except Antarctica.
An historian points out that our partners weren’t equipped to win without air support — but neither are we.
Though the insurgent group rushed to assure the West, its embrace of strict Islamic law leaves much to speculation.
Beijing wants stability in Afghanistan as its significant economic and security interests are at stake.
It’s as predictable as the sun rising and setting, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept the games that the Congress and Pentagon play.
Initial signs suggest that there might be some space for European engagement with the militia, if only for the betterment of Afghans.
Biden is getting attacked on all sides for putting its ‘credibility’ on the Taiwan issue at risk. Will he cave to it?
Selective accountability on failed US foreign policy is a feature of Washington.
It should be no surprise then, that Americans are shocked at the images of violence and the grim political situation on the ground today.
But poverty, climate stress, and instability make the people who live there, and the strength of any new government, vulnerable.
In new book, Spencer Ackerman shows how the post-9/11 Global War on Terror gave us neither the peace or stability it promised.
Washington elites are rightly horrified by the Taliban’s swift takeover, but more troops and more time wouldn’t have made a difference.
Now is not the time for bureaucracy or delay. The United States will only get one opportunity to get this right.
The former general joins a chorus of calls to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely with broad assumptions that there will be no costs.
Congress has abdicated its constitutional role, helping mire the US in endless conflicts around the world.