Foreign Policy, Politics, and Lessons from History

A Rough Beast Returns
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/opinion/afghanistan-kabul-biden-blinken.html
 
America’s Afghan War: A Defeat Foretold?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/world/europe/afghanistan-us-history-colonial-wars.html
 
Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?
https://theconversation.com/why-did-a-military-superpower-fail-in-afghanistan-166238
 
To Understand Afghanistan’s Future, Reckon with the Region’s Colonial Past
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/19/afghanistan-pakistan-india-south-asia-british-colonial-past-partition-durand-line/

Here’s why the U.S. national security apparatus keeps producing failures
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/heres-why-us-national-security-apparatus-keeps-producing-failures/
 
Afghanistan’s crisis underscores the U.S.’s shifting place in the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/20/afghanistan-us-shifting-role/ 

 Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs notes:
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/afghanistan-latest-debacle-of-us-foreign-policy-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2021-08
“What these cases have in common is not just policy failure. Underlying all of them is the US foreign-policy establishment’s belief that the solution to every political challenge is military intervention or CIA-backed destabilization”.

For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/world/asia/afghanistan-united-states.html