Tuesday’s testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee told every American who was paying attention exactly what we needed to know about Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Almost none of us with the ability to think critically didn’t already…
Turning to then-Vice President Joe Biden during a 2009 national security meeting, President Barack Obama famously said, “Joe, you do Iraq.” This allowed President Obama to turn his attention to the “Good War,” and his abortive “Afghan Surge” strategy —…
The greatest tragedy of Afghanistan is not that the United States was defeated but that the Afghan government collapsed. America will recover from this retreat from empire, but “failed states” are a much more serious problem. Regimes are crumbling in…
Last week Chris Bedford had a very notable column at The Federalist recognizing that the current Team D crowd driving policy and media in this country is obsessed with three things nobody else is clamoring for. And he was right,…
Afghanistan — of all places — may have saved America. An important part of our democracy has been stolen from us — far more devastating than the right to vote. Democracy cannot work, despite the ostensible presence of other freedoms,…
“Innocent Civilians,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, September 21, 2021.
While President Joe Biden vacationed, Kabul fell to the Taliban. Now, the Taliban will control more of Afghanistan on September 11, 2021 than they did on September 11, 2001 — and attacks and violence on the ground are increasing rapidly. It is clear…
The divisive speech given by President Biden last Thursday — seeking to shift focus from his cowardly bug-out from Afghanistan to COVID, and to make Republicans — to Biden, a/k/a “the dark forces” — the issue rather than his horrendous…
It seems universally agreed across the political spectrum that the U.S. had to leave Afghanistan. Not quite; almost universally, that is. The U.S. did not need to exit Afghanistan. It did not need to “end the endless war” because the war…
