RealClearWorld Week of August 16, 2021 Archives

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Monday, August 16
Afghanistan's End Portends Darker U.S. Future
Kurt Volker CEPA
Where Are the Taliban and Afghanistan Headed?
Stratfor Worldview
3 Paths for Counterterrorism After Afghanistan
William Wechsler Atlantic Council
A Humiliation for U.S. and Biden
Ido Vock New Statesman
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan
David Loyn Spectator
The Blame Game Starts on Afghanistan
Sumantra Maitra National Interest
Of MICE and Men in the Berlin Spy Game
Mark Galeotti Moscow Times
Israel's Coalition Government Holds to Center
Al Monitor
Afghans Need Humanitarian Intervention Right Now
Charli Carpenter FP
The Tusk Effect
Slawomir Sierakowski Project Syndicate
Biden's Stain: U.S. Flees Kabul
Mike Allen Axios
Why America Was Destined to Fail in Afghanistan
Andrew Michta 1945
A Bold Acknowledgment, a Big Risk on Afghanistan
Jacob Heilbrunn TNI
Don't Fail America's Allies
France Hoang War on the Rocks
Humbled by Afghanistan
Joel Mathis The Week
America's Moral Obligation to Afghan Translators
A. Cross & A. Mann Bulwark


Tuesday, August 17
Was This the End of the American Era?
Robin Wright New Yorker
Afghanistan's Story Doesn't End Here
Michael Rubin National Interest
Biggest Danger Is to Shrink From This Fiasco
William Hague Times of London
A Critical Afghanistan Assessment
Small Wars Journal
Russia's Battle for the Black Sea
Angela Stent Foreign Affairs
India's Fate Is Tied to the Rest of the World
Dhruva Jaishankar The Hindu
Afghanistan Was Always Going to Be a Disaster
Michael Tomasky New Republic
History in the Breaking and Making of India
Vishnu Modur Notes on Liberty
Afghan Women Fear the Worst
Najmeh Bozorgmehr Financial Times
A Catastrophe for Afghanistan's Women
Lynsey Addario The Atlantic
Biden Just Made America & the World Less Secure
Noah Rothman Commentary
A Disaster Long in the Making
Stephen Collinson CNN
The Mystery of Afghanistan's Missing Military Leaders
J. Schroden Politico
The Myth of Chinese Investment in Afghanistan
Raffaello Pantucci Nikkei
Taiwan Must Help the U.S. Help It
James Holmes Taipei Times
Biden's Chamberlain Moment in Afghanistan
Walter Russell Mead WSJ
Biden Could Still Be Proved Right on Afghanistan
Thomas Friedman NY Times
We All Lost Afghanistan
P. Michael McKinley Foreign Affairs


Wednesday, August 18
Inside Kabul's Dizzying Fall
Francesca Mannocchi & Alessio Romenzi Newlines
Moscow Watches With Some Satisfaction, Much Concern
Mark Galeotti MT
Why Was There So Little Resistance in Afghanistan?
John McLaughlin Ozy
So Much for a 'Foreign Policy for the Middle Class'
Yascha Mounk The Atlantic
Why the Taliban Won
Vanda Felbab-Brown Foreign Affairs
How the Afghan Army Collapsed
Max Boot Council on Foreign Relations
I Fear for My Afghan Sisters
Malala Yousafzai New York Times
Afghanistan Collapse Sparks Alarm in Ukraine
Alyona Getmanchuk AC
Biden Must Fix His Mayhem
James Jay Carafano 1945
Israel Hopes Biden Will Now Take Harder Line on Iran
Ben Caspit Al Monitor
Biden Wasted a Chance to Save Allies in Afghanistan
Nicole Narea Vox
'A Total and Unmitigated Defeat'
William Kristol The Bulwark
Responsible Statecraft Gets Its Moment
Free Beacon
The Generals Lied and the Fantasy Died
Anatol Lieven Responsible Statecraft


Thursday, August 19
This Is Something Much Worse Than an Intel Failure
D. London Just Security
Will Afghanistan Be a Terrorist Haven Again?
Daniel Byman Foreign Affairs
Post-American Afghanistan and India's Geopolitics
C. Raja Mohan Foreign Policy
Ankara Mulls Taliban Engagement
Metin Gurcan Al Monitor
What to Watch For Amid Reports of an Anti-Taliban Movement
Stratfor
Resistance to Taliban Emerges in Panjshir
Bill Roggio Long War Journal
American Leadership Doubles Down on Ignorance
Jim Sleeper HNN
China & Taiwan: What Eisenhower Would do
Kenneth Weisbrode 1945
Taiwan Invasion Doesn't Hang in Military Balance
Andrei Lungu East Asia Forum
Afghanistan Is a Lesson in Humility
Howard French World Politics Review
The One Big Thing Biden Got Right in Afghanistan
Fred Kaplan Slate
The Impending Cultural Disaster in Afghanistan
Jeva Lange The Week


Friday, August 20
Europe Had Better Face Up to Biden Doctrine
Philip Stephens Financial Times
Europe Left Exposed as America Steps Off World Stage
Luke McGee CNN
Mr. Biden, Afghans and Americans Need a Plan of Action
E. McCusker RCW
The Taliban's New U.S.-Made War Chest
I. Ali P. Zengerle & J. Landay Reuters
A Thorough Explanation of China's Long-Term Strategy
Peter Mattis WOTR
Mullah Baradar: Afghanistan's President-in-Waiting?
S. Ramachandran Diplomat
The Last Days of the 'New Afghanistan'
Jon Boone Financial Times
Could Afghanistan Become the Base for Another 9/11?
Graham Allison TNI
The Known Unknowns of Afghanistan’s Future
Frida Ghitis World Politics Review
Strategic Dynamics in Central Asia Have Shifted
Stuti Bhatnagar Lowy Interpreter
A Grave Blow to America's Standing
Economist
Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight
Anne Applebaum The Atlantic
From Forever Wars to Great Power Wars
Stacie Pettyjohn & Becca Wasser WOTR
Saturday, August 21
What to Make of American Credibility?
James Holmes 1945
When You're Wounded and Left on Afghanistan's Plains
George Friedman GPF
What the Fall of Afghanistan Means for Europe
Gerard Araud et al Atlantic Council
The Taliban's New Reign of Terror
John Simpson New Statesman
The Trillion Dollar Illusion
Christoph Reuter Der Spiegel
Is Afghanistan the Capital of a New Terrorist Empire?
Adam Lammon TNI
What Will the Taliban Do with $22 Billion Economy?
Bobby Ghosh Bloomberg
Biden's Afghanistan Fiasco
Edward Luce Financial Times
Create 'Humanitarian Corridors'
Chris Smith Washington Times
News Is Dominated by Same Hawks Who Made This Mess
Aaron Rupar Vox
U.S. Pakistan Policy Failed
Arun Singh German Marshall Fund


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