Military Policy
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August 19th, 2021
Taliban with sub-machine gun mounted in pick-up
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.
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August 19th, 2021
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...
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August 17th, 2021
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...
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August 17th, 2021
Biden Afghanistan press-conference - east room
Tragedy is an inadequate word to describe what’s happening in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden’s administration’s feckless, vacillating incompetence is a catastrophe.
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August 17th, 2021
Map - Afghanistan highlighted
Almost 20 years of American involvement in Afghanistan have ended in unmitigated disaster. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine a worse scenario.
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August 16th, 2021
Taliban fighters in palace, Kabul
Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan.
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August 16th, 2021
Biden Afghanistan press-conference - east room
Biden argued that the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country vindicated his decision to withdraw American troops.
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August 16th, 2021
Taliban member - outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul
In yielding Afghanistan to the Taliban, Joe Biden has engineered the worst foreign-policy disaster in a generation.
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August 16th, 2021
Afghani's flee to park
The U.S. has a responsibility to protect Afghans from the mass atrocities of the Taliban.
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July 23rd, 2021
police - ice command post
House Democrats are moving to gut Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the federal agency responsible for arresting and deporting illegal immigrants — amid a raging southern border crisis that has grown exponentially since President Biden took office.
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