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As 2021 painfully revealed, the United States did not achieve its objective of establishing a durable, functioning government in Afghanistan friendly to our interests. Afghanistan is but the latest in ...
Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite ...
Jeremi Suri shows that US nation-building is too deeply rooted to be impeded by the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles. Ten years ago, in 2003, President George W. Bush argued in a notorious speech that ...
As South Africa marks 50 years since the 1976 Youth Uprising, human rights lawyer Nomzamo Zondo reflects on the killing of 19 ...
The US domestic political focus on Iraq has often come at the expense of attention to developments in the Afghan-Pakistan conflict. This situation is compounded by the lack of meaningful official ...