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Sending aid to Afghanistan: Let’s save a million children

by Jay Ambrose Is President Joe Biden killing a million children in Afghanistan? No, certainly not directly, but he and varied other officials set the stage in the overly quick, careless, incompetent U.S. withdrawal that put the Taliban in charge of the place. The Taliban’s ...

Sept. 11, 2001-21: 20 years of grief

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 had even been born yet — to remember the day two planes took down the twin towers of the World Trade Center, while ...

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 the 640 Afghans being airlifted from Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 15 amid chaos. Your black hair pulled ...

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 ongoing violent turmoil there. All three are considered terrorist groups and employ violent tactics to achieve their ends, so for ...

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 country he has just abandoned. It has been a theme of Biden’s administration since he announced the unconditional ...