The average college student has no true memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Neither do current high school, middle school or elementary school students. They were too young — if they […]
Tag: afghanistan
I see you, Afghan girl. I was you, once
by Fabiola Santiago Dear precious Afghan girl, I see you. I see you in the belly of a packed U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, a telling round face among […]
Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda: What’s the difference?
MORGANTOWN – The Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS are three names on our lips more often these days in the wake of the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan and the […]
Return of cruise-missile diplomacy
by Eli Lake A paradox of President Joe Biden’s decision to end the war in Afghanistan is his vow to keep fighting the wider battle against terrorism even in the […]
American leadership: FDR vs. JFK vs. JRB
In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt said: “… we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost […]
Aug. 29 letters to the editor
Shame on Biden for disastrous withdrawal God help our fellow Americans, trapped in Afghanistan without rescue directives or communication. God help our Afghan allies by whose side we fought for […]
Biden’s bad press is his own fault
by Ramesh Ponnuru President Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan has few vocal defenders. What they lack in numbers, though, they make up for in unity of message: The press is […]
Trust Taliban to fight Islamic State?
by Bobby Ghosh Reports from Washington and Kabul show the extent to which the Biden administration has been counting on the Taliban to facilitate the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — […]
What Biden doesn’t understand
GETTYSBURG — On an overcast day, the national park that has preserved the history of one of the bloodiest and most significant battles of the American Civil War is filled […]
Immense scale of Bush’s policy screw-up
by Chris Reed In 1983, Harvard-educated psychiatrist turned Carter administration bureaucrat turned conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer wrote a remarkably prescient column for Time magazine about “the mirror-image fallacy” — the […]
