The picture is likely to look better in a few months’ time.
Afghanistan
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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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Lawful Carnage
Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism.
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With the Iraq Withdrawal, U.S. Wars Expand
All the ways Biden isn’t ending the forever wars
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The Whitewashing of the Afghan War
As the U.S. withdraws, a re-examination of the ‘good war’
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Jeanne Shaheen, Defense Contractors, and the Afghanistan Withdrawal
The senator cites women’s rights as a reason not to leave, but New Hampshire arms manufacturers may also play a role.
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From Endless War to Endless Operations
When American troops pull out of Afghanistan later this year, a small army of contractors will likely stay behind.