When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, And the women come down to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier. — Rudyard Kipling, “The…
America’s longest war is coming to an end. As an active-duty officer, it has been very depressing to watch how quickly Afghanistan has fallen. More than 2,300 military service members and approximately 3,900 U.S. contractors have lost their lives, with…
Kabul August 2021 is neither 9/11 nor the Iran hostage crisis and botched rescue mission, nor is it Saigon April 1975. It is not Dunkirk, nor is it the Kasserine Pass. It is certainly not the Battle of Long Island…
For the first time since 2001, the Taliban controls most of Afghanistan. US intelligence estimates made public just over a week ago predicted that the Afghan government could fall within 90 days. It fell in less than a week. While…
Before, during, and after the self-inflicted disaster of appeasement, Winston Churchill criticized Neville Chamberlain’s policy in the starkest language. He said to the Prime Minister, “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will…
If you’ve been paying attention to some of the brighter lights in conservative media, you might have noticed an absolutely excellent point being made. Tucker Carlson made it. At the Federalist, so did John Daniel Davidson. There have been others….
A war started with surreal scenes involving airplanes and people falling from the sky ends with surreal scenes involving airplanes and people falling from the sky. The United States launched a just war in Afghanistan 20 years ago in response…
The thing you need to understand about Joe Biden isn’t that he’s a moron, or that he’s a moron with senile dementia. You already understand that. If you don’t, you might also be a moron. Joe Biden has been a…
Washington — Looking back on the contradictory pronunciamentos uttered by President Joe Biden so solemnly over the last few months on the subject of Afghanistan, what has struck me is how inane they show him to be. Either when he…
