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The Taliban seized dozens of aircraft and thousands of weapons, vehicles and high-tech equipment in Afghanistan that was funded by the U.S. government.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 19, 2021 This was a fulfillment of their obligations after the Sept. 11 terror attack led to the first invocation of the mutual self-defense clause in NATO’s founding treaty. European allies also have a stake in preventing a nation of nearly 40 million people from collapsing into a failed state that could…

Join this special Live! episode as we sit down with former White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany to discuss her time in the White House and how her faith played a critical role in her work.

InterVarsity study of Christians at secular schools shows most feel welcome and want to “pursue the common good together.”

If Planned Parenthood’s mission is truly to serve women in need, the Texas Heartbeat Act presents the group with a prime opportunity.

By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – August 19, 2021 “If appreciating some of the ideas in St. Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ was enough to make you a Christian,” a friend said to me someyears ago, “then I’d be a Christian. But a personal God? The miracles? I can’t get there yet.” Whenever I write about the decline of organized religion in America,…

More than 80 members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter concluding that the Biden administration broke the law by dropping a lawsuit filed on behalf of a pro-life nurse forced to participate in the performance of an abortion in violation of federal conscience laws.

By: Sune Engel Rasmussen – wsj.com – August 18, 2021 The first major Afghan city fell on Aug. 9. The last one, Kabul, capitulated just six days later. The offensive that returned the Taliban to power 20 years after they were ousted by a U.S.-led coalition seemed dizzyingly fast. In reality, the Taliban’s road to victory winds back many years….

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 17, 2021 It’s too early to know the wider strategic fallout from America’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. But there’s strong reason to doubt convenient claims that the retreat will help the U.S. balance a revisionist China. Beijing is more likely to see the display of fecklessness as an opening to exploit. “Our true…

Tragedy is an inadequate word to describe what’s happening in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden’s administration’s feckless, vacillating incompetence is a catastrophe.

Almost 20 years of American involvement in Afghanistan have ended in unmitigated disaster. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine a worse scenario.