National Security
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Private team leader describes U.S. admin officials who ‘did absolutely nothing’ to help girls escape Taliban
"Unholy alliance between the United States government and the Taliban."
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After an exhausting info warfare deployment, Iranian navy task force purports to be almost home
Denial, deception, decoying.
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Biden and Afghanistan: The unbearable lightness of scapegoating
Mere scapegoating is too small a horizon for the landscape-level understanding we need.
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Report: Biden had Kabul suicide bomber in sights but failed to pull the trigger
The source of these bombshell allegations is Roger Pardo-Maurer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs under George…
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Inevitably, a pallet of cash makes its appearance in the Afghanistan drama
When you've got a good shtick going.
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Biden’s changing commitment to rescuing Americans stranded in Afghanistan
The situation Biden and his administration now find themselves in is not likely to be resolved to their satisfaction —…
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The Taliban celebrate V-Day in Afghanistan
Here at home, the president, who has been ducking questions on Afghanistan for days, decided yesterday to avoid facing the…
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Jake Sullivan says Biden ‘will stop at nothing’ to avenge deaths of troops. Just one problem
It appears the U.S. will make good on its promise to abstain from nation building, though from the looks of…
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Afghanistan: Air strikes are not a relevant measure to facilitate a successful evacuation
A solution that doesn't fit any problem we have now.
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Blinken promised ‘responsible end’ so ‘Afghanistan can never again become haven for terrorists’
A new candidate for the 'Best Laid Plans' award has emerged.
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Why won’t Pentagon release names of ‘high profile’ ISIS-K planners killed in airstrike?
When I first learned that the Biden administration had launched a drone strike in retaliation for Thursday's suicide bombing, killing…
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Were Biden’s hands really tied by Trump’s agreement with the Taliban?
Nothing says sincerity better than accepting full responsibility for something that went south and then in the next breath blaming…
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‘We will hunt you down and make you pay.’ Care to explain how?
In Joe Biden's speech on Thursday, he included a little something for everybody.
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American blood has been spilled again in Afghanistan
So far the White House has issued no statement or briefing, nor has there been an update to the White…
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Havana Syndrome strikes near vice president on foreign trip
Somewhere out there in the world at large, a bad actor is employing some clandestine technology in an attempt to…
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Pentagon won’t say how many Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan
Kirby did not address whether there has been U.S.-Taliban communication regarding the August 31 deadline to withdraw all American troops.
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At presser with Kamala, Singapore PM says U.S. image on world stage in question
She didn't have to come all the way to Singapore for this kind of abuse!
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Taliban has begun executing Christians — relying on high tech to help them
'Is the Taliban going to attempt to be able to unite and provide for the well-being of the people of…
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In same presser where Biden says withdrawal was orderly, he says chaos was inevitable
Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk reading ‘The Buck Stops Here.’ Joe Biden should have a…
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Biden’s latest: ‘I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world’
The most scathing critique of the bumbling American president's latest and largest fiasco comes from a former UK commander in…
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Taliban troll U.S. with mocking image imitating World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima
The Taliban engage in pointed messaging.
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Biden supported French embassy evacuation while State Dept told Americans they were on their own in Kabul
An interesting nuance in the saga of NATO allies' evacuations.
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Biden returns from Camp David again to deliver a second address. The subject this time?
Is that how the president tends to reply to his critics — by insisting that horrific videos such as the…
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In the Afghanistan debacle, it was the execution. Final answer
Slow motion train wreck in plain sight.
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Psaki: 11,000 people in Afghanistan ‘self-identify’ as Americans. Huh?
We've heard of people self-identifying as black (think Rachel Dolezal) or Asian. And by now who hasn't heard countless stories…
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Does Biden still think white supremacy is the nation’s number 1 threat?
'America’s top general said Sunday that the United States could now face a rise in terrorist threats from a Taliban-run…
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