Unreal. The Taliban is now re-surging. The world of radical Islamic terrorists is rejoicing. Everybody saw this coming, except President Joe Biden. And I do mean everybody. In his speech to the nation Monday during a short break from his…
Yesterday on CNN’s State of the Union with host Jake Tapper, Secretary of State Antony Blinken insulted the intelligence of the American people and the families whose sons and daughters fought and died in Afghanistan by stating assuringly, “This is…
Tobruk was a vital British base in North Africa behind Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps lines. It was a major thorn in his side and kept him from taking Cairo and Suez for a long time. When it unexpectedly fell to…
In the absence of the United States and our NATO allies, the Taliban is rapidly advancing in their pursuit of claiming territory in Afghanistan, and the Afghan government does not look equipped or trained to prevail in the power vacuum…
America’s military bases across the world number in the hundreds and are located on every continent. There are perhaps close to 800 in more than 70 countries and territories. But President Biden is ensuring that none will be in what’s…
Hamid Karzai isn’t exactly wrong, you know. But when the former Afghan president trashes America as a failure it does seem like awfully poor form: Afghanistan’s former president said Sunday the United States came to his country to fight extremism…
Editor’s note: This column was originally published on April 20, 2021. President Biden’s recent decision to withdraw all remaining 2,500 American troops from Afghanistan by September 11 entails much more risk than reward. The reward is principally political: on September…
President Biden’s decision to pull the remaining U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by September 11, against the military’s advice, was partially right. His decision was also terribly wrong because it ignores the foreseeable aftermath of the withdrawal. We have done…
