Afghanistan

On being elected President Biden boastfully announced that America was back. Instead, the stunning events of the past weeks have done untold damage to America’s credibility and reliability in the eyes of its partners and foes alike. The rapid collapse of the Ghani administration and Afghan Army has, rightfully, prompted a great deal of criticism,

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Forget Covid, forget climate change, let the entire 21st century slip by. For Afghanistan, twenty years of progress and healing have been wiped out in a matter of weeks as the national government has collapsed, international forces are fleeing, and the Taliban are in complete control in