The U.S.-Taliban deal is promising, now what?
The Taliban now must start negotiations on a power sharing arrangement with the Afghan government.
The Taliban now must start negotiations on a power sharing arrangement with the Afghan government.
The U.S. would have been better off defining victory by adapting to local ways of war and peace.
To create peace and stability in other nations, we must elevate their people to prosperity, instead of crushing them.
The escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions has implications for Iran’s eastern neighbors, who want to prevent a major new conflict on their borders.
Instead of declaring victory and pulling out, the Very Serious People in Washington want the U.S. declare a stalemate and stay in.
Leaving militarily does not mean leaving all together. The United States should continue to pursue its Middle East interests diplomatically and economically.
Few noticed Trump’s recent offer to work with Iran to combat ISIS and on other “shared priorities.”
War profiteering is one thing. Funding the enemy who kills your own troops is quite another. Such a concept is inherently a Catch 22.
The DC foreign policy elite moved quickly to try to downplay the Afghanistan papers to keep the U.S. military there indefinitely.
It’s difficult to quantify the indirect human costs of war: mental illness or chronic injuries in people eternally grieving or struggling to adjust to worlds that have often been turned upside down.
The Washington Post’s publication of the “Afghanistan Papers” unveiled over 2,000 pages of unpublished notes of interviews with U.S. officials involved […]
Congress has made clear it isn’t moved by recent revelations of dishonesty and waste in our war-making.