Why Did a C-17 Pilot Have to Make This Decision in Kabul?
Images are already splashed all over the media: an Air Force C-17 rolling down the taxiway of Kabul’s airport, Afghan civilians running alongside it.
Images are already splashed all over the media: an Air Force C-17 rolling down the taxiway of Kabul’s airport, Afghan civilians running alongside it.
For many of us, there is no end to this war. There never will be an end to it. Is there a day that goes by that we don’t think about our war?
The Defense Department begins releasing pictures from Hamid Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Will American politicians finally learn that they have to start playing chess not checkers when it comes to foreign policy?
“I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor,” President Biden said. It left the Taliban “in the strongest position militarily since 2001.”
What are the options of America going forward?
Meanwhile, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said that Taliban troops will not enter Kabul as they expect a peaceful transfer of power.
Mazar-i-Sharif is Afghanistan’s fourth-largest city and was heavily defended. But fell without much of a fight.
As the Taliban are about to capture Afghanistan, President Biden has the chance to do the right thing and avoid the mistake Obama made in Iraq in 2011.
“This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not a wholesale withdrawal,” the State Department incredulously said.
Yet another district capital has fallen to the Taliban who are now making daily gains as the Afghan National Army is swept aside.
The Commandos that passed the grueling assessment process prioritized certain character traits in themselves and others.