Bonnie Kristian, RCW
Kim Yo-jong, sister of regime leader Kim Jong-un recently denounced the ongoing U.S.-South Korean military training as "hostile war exercises" and warned that continuing the drills "beclouds the way ahead of the North-South relations." She reiterated her condemnation Tuesday,
Theodore Leshnick, Taipei Times
As the US is pulling out of Afghanistan, many Americans wonder what the war was all for. Seeing planes airlifting refugees out of Kabul brings back memories of planes flying into the Twin Towers in 2001.
Sukjoon Yoon, The Diplomat
Early next year, the next president of South Korea will be sworn in. The new president - whoever that will be - will face some major foreign policy and security issues, but the potential candidates have so far been focused mostly on domestic matters.
Rachel Ellehuus, CSIS
Since 2001, the United States and its NATO allies and partners had been heavily committed in Afghanistan, where more than 3,500 of their soldiers paid the ultimate sacrifice. It is therefore not surprising that the rapid fall of Kabul sent shockwaves across Europe and stirred an intense debate among European leaders about its implications for the transatlantic partnership.
Emerson Brooking, Atlantic Council
The Taliban insurgents who conquered nearly all of Afghanistan in just two weeks counted social media among their weapons. They deployed Facebook and WhatsApp to help prevail over their opponents on the battlefield. They issued hundreds of premature declarations of victory via Twitter—using spam to amplify...
Asli Aydıntaşbaş et al, ECFR
Peter Suciu, 1945
On Thursday, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing attack outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. military personnel and more than 150 Afghans. It was the most globally consequential action to date conducted by the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Spectator
Some events are like this.
They creep up like a stalking wolf.
Or, as Nietzsche put it, on doves' feet.
We don't hear them coming and need a third ear to make out, behind the ‘still, small voice', the echo of the explosion.
Bradley Bowman, FDD
For years, politicians and pundits on both the left and right have been invoking the misleading mantra of "endless war" to condemn the continuing presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and to demand that U.S. troops return home regardless of continued threats facing Americans. Advocates for a withdrawal that ignored conditions on the ground finally got their way in Afghanistan this summer, and the
Elliot Ackerman, Foreign Affairs
My first mission as a paramilitary officer with the CIA was against a top-ten al Qaeda target. It was the autumn of 2009, and I had been deployed in my new job for a total of two days. But I was no stranger to Afghanistan, having already fought there (as well as in Iraq) as a Marine Corps officer over the previous six years. On this mission, I was joined by the Afghan counterterrorism unit I advised and a handful of members from SEAL Team Six. Our plan was to conduct a raid to capture or kill our target... Читать дальше...
Clea Caulcutt, Politico EU
PARIS — The EU's former chief Brexit negotiator is making a long shot bid for the French presidency, betting that gravitas and experience in government will win him the top job 2022.
David Rothkopf, USA Today
The intellectual dishonesty in critiques of how President Joe Biden is handling the U.S. departure from Afghanistan has been off the charts. That's not to say some of them are not warranted. They certainly are. The swift fall of Kabul to the Taliban was predictable, and there is a case that we should have been better prepared for it. And there is no doubt that the risks we faced were great, as shown by the Kabul airport attack last week that claimed the lives of... Читать дальше...
Noah Rothman, National Review
n one of his earliest acts as a declared candidate for president, Joe Biden promised Americans that he would "end the forever wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East." In this, he echoed Donald Trump's pledge to end "the era of endless wars" by withdrawing Americans from "ancient conflicts in faraway lands that many people have not even heard of." Both presidents tapped into a populistic impulse among voters and their interpreters in the punditocracy who want... Читать дальше...
