Tag Archives: Afghanistan
“Al Qaeda once again has a safe haven in Afghanistan, endangering Americans”
FOREIGN POLICY On 9/11 Anniversary, End the Self-Delusion About America’s Enemies H. R. McMaster and Bradley Bowman September 9, 2022 To understand the persistent malady of self-delusion in Washington, consider U.S. President Joe Biden’s comments in August 2021. “What interest … Continue reading
An appeal from Clarion Project, an organization I support
The Afghans who helped U.S. forces are now, along with their families, under direct threat of torture, enslavement, and death at the hands of the Taliban, and you can help them. Since the Taliban takeover, we have received hundreds of … Continue reading
Biden caught in an extraordinary lie but the media is silent
WASHINGTON POST Our military leaders confirm: Biden misled America by Mark A. Thiessen September 30, 2021 After two days of testimony by our military commanders on the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, here is what we have learned: Joe … Continue reading
“All things considered, a review of the relationship between Washington and Islamabad seems long overdue”
ISRAEL HAYOM (be agreement with JNS) Unfriending Pakistan by Clifford D. May September 22, 2021 …We now know for certain that powerful elements within Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment helped create the Afghan Taliban in the early 1990s and continued … Continue reading
“The U.S. has abandoned Kabul, but America’s former client in Islamabad still holds leverage over the superpower it helped defeat”
BLOOMBERG How Pakistan Won the War in Afghanistan by Eli Lake September 9, 2021 For much of the war on terror that began after 9/11, Pakistan played a double game. It occasionally helped track and detain al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. … Continue reading
Guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, have proved meaningless
JNS As Afghanistan collapses, Israel learns the value of international ‘security guarantees’ by Amir Avivi and Or Yissachar September 12, 2021 …Further still, guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, were given to both the Afghani and … Continue reading
The fall of Afghanistan: Service can’t review its own performance. An independent civilian commission is necessary.
WALL STREET JOURNAL The Army Needs to Understand the Afghanistan Disaster by Frank Sobchak and Matthew Zais September 8, 2021 The U.S. war in Afghanistan was a costly failure. More than 2,400 Americans died during the two-decade conflict. Tens of … Continue reading
Can one even imagine Truman begging the Iranian ayatollahs for a nuclear deal not in our favor? Or handing over the keys to a country to the same terrorists who used it to launch an attack on America only 20 years ago?
NEW YORK SUN A Tale of Two Photos Captures Different Americas by Warren Kozak August 30, 2021 Two photographs, taken 76 years apart — within the lifetime of many — drive home the change our country has taken in that … Continue reading
“As the post-9/11 chapter closes, a new one begins, marked above all by the end of American deterrence and the eclipse of American power”
FEDERALIST Our Defeat In Afghanistan Is Only The Beginning by John Daniel Davidson September 2, 2021 …As we learn more in the coming weeks and months about the fecklessness and deceit of the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal — including Biden’s … Continue reading
“Thanks to the Biden administration, say the Arabs and Muslims, terrorist groups that want to wage jihad against the US and Israel and threaten the security and stability of many Arab countries have firmly increased their foothold in the Middle East”
GATESTONE Arabs: Biden Brings Extremism, Terrorism Back to Life by Khaled Abu Toameh August 24, 2021 As the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is celebrating the “defeat” of the United States in Afghanistan, the Arabs seem worried that they will be the … Continue reading
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