The United States, writes Max Boot in the Washington Post, has “exaggerated fears about Chinese power.” Boot compares U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan — whose memo revealed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s October 2022 “war council” and who has…
A soon-to-be-Republican-led Congress has promised to investigate the calamitous departure from Afghanistan. This is how it should be and is consistent with our country’s tradition of oversight and investigation. But an even more important priority is investigating the armed forces’…
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government and its replacement with the Taliban. The Diplomat’s managing editor, Catherine Putz, spoke with Justine Fleischner of Afghan Peace Watch about what has transpired since then….
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO MY TAS READERS: My New Year 2o22 Resolution for my readers at The American Spectator is to: 1. Reduce all my 2,000–3,000-word articles to the same trim-and-svelte 800–1,200-word lengths that normal columnists write, and 2. Publish twice-weekly on predictable…
If we are honest, Afghanistan never was going to end well. That does not mean it had to end as an American Tire Fire the way Biden cataclysmically has perpetrated on our national standing. But this had “MESS” written all…
America invaded Afghanistan in order to destroy the power of al-Qaeda, whose treacherous attacks had just destroyed thousands of civilian lives and threatened many more. To win the war, America made alliances with as many Afghans as it could. The…
Joe Biden’s foreign policy instincts have long been defective. In light of his most recent debacle, it is worth recalling Osama bin Laden’s low estimate of Biden. According to documents seized from his compound in Pakistan, Bin Laden had plotted…
The Taliban now effectively control Afghanistan. They have forced women and girls into marriages on their path to taking over the country. Meanwhile, world leaders — from Joe Biden to Boris Johnson to Justin Trudeau — have turned away from…
Mark August 15 as the day that Joe Biden lost the media. Nine months after the election, they have stopped carrying the president’s water. CNN’s Jake Tapper was the first crack in the dam. Tapper brought on Secretary of State…
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