Afghanistan Withdrawal
Joe Biden’s WIthdrawal from Afghanistan Will Haunt Him Forever
President Biden said he ended the war in Afghanistan. In truth he abandoned it. Over 20 years, 800,000 young Americans did their duty to country by serving in Afghanistan. Of those, 20,000 were wounded,...
America Did Not Cause Afghanistan’s Collapse
The Afghans who benefitted from U.S. presence in Afghanistan have been bashing Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, ever since he signed the Doha Agreement with...
Hands Off: United States Promises Taliban Not to Fund Rebels
The U.S. government reportedly assured the Taliban during a set of negotiations in early October that it would not attempt to fund resistance to the new government—an announcement made after...
Afghanistan Is a Threat to Global Security Once Again
Twenty-one years ago, before the Taliban enabled Al Qaeda to launch the tragic 9/11 attacks from Afghan soil, Afghanistan was a no man’s land. Dozens of regional and transnational terrorist...
Biden Has Only Bad Options in Afghanistan
Editor’s note: In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts...
China Declares Afghanistan Withdrawal ‘Failure’ of U.S. Hegemony
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin claimed on Monday that the fall of the U.S.-backed government of Afghanistan one year ago—and the subsequent haphazard U.S. evacuation from Kabul’s airport, which...
Do Not Engage the Taliban for Free
Editor’s note: In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts...
One Year Later, Former Afghan President Ghani Defends Decision to Flee
Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s president from 2014 until his evacuation from Kabul in August 2021, defended his conduct in an interview on Sunday, claiming that he had made a “split-second” decision...
Zeal, Dogma, and Folly: How the Taliban Bungled Afghanistan
Editor’s note: In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts...
Inclusive Governance Can Bring Peace to Afghanistan
Editor’s note: In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts...
Symposium: Afghanistan One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal
One year ago today, the Taliban captured the Afghan capital of Kabul during the height of the United States’ withdrawal, leading to chaos and socio-economic deterioration throughout the country. Since...
American Grand Strategy: Disguising Decline
AMERICAN TRIUMPHALISM is back. The difficulties encountered by Vladimir Putin’s regime in its invasion of Ukraine are being used to revive Cold War rhetoric about American leadership, the struggle for...