The Afghanistan Tragedy

Taliban triumph: anatomy of a disaster in Afghanistan
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Taliban-triumph-anatomy-of-a-disaster-in-Afghanistan

In the Afghanistan debacle, so many errors and so little candor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/16/afghanistan-debacle-so-many-errors-so-little-candor/
 
Afghanistan is now part of the post-American world
https://www.ft.com/content/516b75b4-0c1c-4a7b-91d9-dd4844b1ecab

Pax Americana Died in Kabul
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pax-americana-died-in-afghanistan-by-brahma-chellaney-2021-08
 
The Taliban has taken lessons from the global jihadist movement
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2021/08/taliban-has-taken-lessons-global-jihadist-movement

The Year We Lost Our Way in Afghanistan
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/bin-laden-2001-end-war-afghanistan/619767/

What went wrong in Afghanistan
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-went-wrong-in-afghanistan
 
The Afghan government’s collapse is a humiliation for the US and Joe Biden
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2021/08/afghan-government-s-collapse-humiliation-us-and-joe-biden

Letting the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan Isn’t Exactly a ‘Win’
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-13/taliban-s-afghanistan-takeover-isn-t-a-win-for-u-s-biden
 
America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-hubris-afghanistan-humiliation/2021/08/14/47fb025a-fc67-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html

Afghanistan’s Unraveling May Strike Another Blow to U.S. Credibility
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/world/europe/afghanistan-eu-us-credibility.html
Joe Biden’s credibility has been shredded in Afghanistan
https://www.ft.com/content/71629b28-f730-431a-b8da-a2d45387a0c2

What was the point of the war in Afghanistan?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-was-the-point-of-the-war-in-afghanistan-
The country is sliding back towards the pre-intervention status quo

China moves swiftly to exploit the void in Afghanistan
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-moves-swiftly-to-exploit-the-void-in-Afghanistan