The former Marine officer who served two tours of duty there is now running for the U.S. Senate in Missouri.
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The Unheeded Dissent Cable
The White House only heard about an urgent warning of Afghanistan’s collapse after reading news reports.
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The Futility of Military ‘Solutions’
Reflecting on what Biden gets right and wrong, and the lessons for Iranian diplomacy
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Altercation: How Low Can They Go? The Media’s Afghan Coverage
To assess the withdrawal, mainstream media go to the ‘experts’ who were wrong or lied about the war for the past 20 years.
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Failing and Falling, From Saigon to the Taliban
The Vietnam generation revisits its errors in Afghanistan.
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The Afghan Debacle and American Politics
The Kabul collapse likely won’t matter in upcoming elections—unless …
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‘Saving’ Afghan Women, Now
The status of Afghanistan’s women is a separate question from the presence of American troops.
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The Truth About Intervening Powers in the Middle East
And the title ‘biggest meddler’ goes to … the UAE, not Iran.
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Tokyo’s Empty Olympics
An international extravaganza that pandemic-weary residents did not want—and the scars it will leave behind
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The Agony of Social Democratic Europe
Why did social democracy collapse? Can Joe Biden point the way to a resurgent trans-Atlantic democratic left?
