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Afghanistan

The End of Pax Americana

Brahma Chellaney

The US has grievously hurt its international credibility with a self-inflicted defeat and humiliation in Afghanistan. Its enemies can only be celebrating. The security and humanitarian disaster that the Biden administration has unleashed in Afghanistan will likely unravel whatever is left of American primacy

Afghanistan Fatigue

The US took four presidents, thousands of lives, a trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban

Who’s fair game under the Taliban?

While the power elite are safe abroad, common folk of Afghanistan hope against hope that their worst fears don’t come true

Who Wants the Peace of the Graveyard?

The Afghan War is over ideology, not geography

Farewell Kabul, We Hardly Knew Ye

America has squandered $2 trillion and thousands of lives trying to rebuild Afghanistan. Yet it never seemed to understand it

A Note-Taker’s Afghan Moments

Close encounters from the Soviet occupation to the rise of the Taliban

Afghanistan: Left to God

And a mood of understandable triumphalism in the Taliban

The Sense of an Ending

The optics of America’s pullout from an unwinnable war in Afghanistan

The Passion of Manzoor Pashteen

The 25-year-old Pashtun tribal leader is charismatic and defiant, much to the anguish of the powerful Pakistani army

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