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The United States spent 20 years trying to build Afghanistan in its image. Yet, US soldiers suddenly surrendered it to the Taliban last month by sneaking away at night. America’s evacuation from Kabul News of the retreat shocked the world. It also humiliated the United States. But, just as in Vietnam, US military leaders in Afghanistan knew for years this war… Read more.
Post-Brexit Britain has been finding itself increasingly isolated on the world stage. This might explain why it seizes any opportunity to seem relevant. This was the case when the British media hailed the fact that Britain was the destination of President Biden’s first foreign trip. And it is the case now with them hailing Prime… Read more.
Granted, it’s Tuesday, but the Monday-morning quarterbacking is head spinning. No doubt you are hearing pundits across the political spectrum decry everything from the unwillingness of Afghans to fight to the willingness of Americans to rely on WMD-style intelligence to their demise … yet again. Most people are understandably in shock and awe over the… Read more.
President Biden should command prime time on all networks tonight to announce a Berlin-style airlift of all Americans and Afghans who supported America’s 20-year war. He should also lay blame for this debacle where it belongs, namely at the feet of the Afghan soldiers who used those feet to high tail it and run when… Read more.
Episode 44: But This Pawn Is Being Played by Two Masters, Both of Whom Seem Better at Geopolitical Chess Than Biden… Related commentaries: Biden’s foreign policy team… Fate of democracy… Listen.
A major earthquake struck western Haiti on Saturday, likely causing high casualties and widespread disaster, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and sending shock waves across the Caribbean, where people fled their homes for fear they might collapse. The 7.2-magnitude earthquake quake struck 8 km (5 miles) from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, about… Read more.
America spent 20 years investing lots of blood and treasure to build an Afghanistan that could fend off the Taliban. Yet the world is watching things fall apart in just 20 weeks after President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all US troops. But who would’ve thought this was possible? And don’t blame it all… Read more.
Watching the news lately, you’d be forgiven the impression the world is on fire. Of course wildfires are seasonal – as I duly noted just weeks ago in “Two-Headed Hydra of Climate Change Has California Burning, New York Flooding,” on July 13. But the devastation they’re causing is becoming increasingly apocalyptic. Here is how CBC… Read more.
Nero fiddled. Obama danced. Legend has it that Nero fiddled while “a great fire ravaged Rome.” But history can fairly record that Obama danced while a great pandemic ravaged America. Here is how TMZ, the tabloid of record in the celebrity world former President Barack Obama now inhabits, reported the first draft on August 8:… Read more.
Much ado is made every Olympics about how countries fare in the final medal count. But nothing demonstrates US dominance in this respect quite like it winning a total of 2941 medals, including 1166 gold, between the 1896 Athens Olympics and these 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Soviet Union and Russia combined is second with a… Read more.
