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Many Americans are just too jingoistic to concede the Taliban won this 20-year war. But the way the Taliban presided over America’s humiliating retreat from Kabul last month betrays the truth. As it happened, here is how I declared the Taliban (and their al-Qaeda hired guns) the winner on 9/11 … 10 years ago: If… Read more.
Political dysfunction and social unrest have had America marching towards another civil war for years. And I have been in the vanguard of those sounding alarms in commentaries like “Tribalism and Dysfunction in American Politics,” June 24, 2018, “Impeachment Vote Is as Much About Tribalism as Trumpism,” November 3, 2019, and “Republican and Democrats Began… Read more.
China has been leading the chorus of authoritarian countries expressing unbridled schadenfreude over America’s humiliating and tragic retreat from Afghanistan. Its official state news agency, Xinhua, set the tone with an August 16 headline that read: The ‘fall of Kabul’ rings the funeral bell of US hegemony But its unofficial state newspaper, the Global Times,… Read more.
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I have been dissing the racket of posthumous albums for years, and taking a lot of flak for doing so. This was especially the case when I wrote the following from “More Proof Michael Was Not ‘Gone Too Soon’,” June 20, 2014: _________ When producers raised the curtain on Michael Jackson’s much-hyped performance, in hologram… Read more.
The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics get underway with the Opening Ceremony tonight. If you live in the United States, however, you probably had no clue (unless you’re related to someone from Team USA, or you experienced the Google shower of Paralympic pictograms on your computer screen). Of course, media coverage of the Paralympics is scant in… Read more.
Over the past week, Afghanistan dominated conversations among personal friends as much as it dominated coverage on cable news networks. But I never failed to spare a thought for Haiti – as “Haitian Earthquake 2021: Déjà vu or Voodoo…?” August 14, attests. Reports abound about chronic political corruption and dysfunction making people less inclined to… Read more.
Russia and China are leading the chorus of countries gloating over America’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan. These of course are the same two countries that have been undermining elections, fomenting unrest, and even discrediting vaccines to make America look so dysfunctional and unlivable that their countries would look more attractive by comparison, respectively. But there… Read more.
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.
