Posts Tagged: Biden afghanistan
Anything Goes: How Extremist Ideologies Are Proliferating
JNS.org - Extremist ideologies are proliferating, and it has become taboo in what we used to call polite society to criticize ideas that, not long...
The Next American Diplomatic Debacle
JNS.org - In 1979, one of the most consequential and significant upheavals in Middle Eastern history swept the former Persian Empire. Just days before the...
Why the World Is Engaging with the Taliban
The Taliban and Pakistan, both viewed warily by the West and others in the international community, appear to be benefiting from mounting concerns about the...
Afghanistan’s Woes Will Haunt America
The beginning of Afghanistan’s miseries, which led to the disastrous rise of the extremist Taliban and is turning the failed state into a major threat...
What Afghanistan Means for Israel and the Palestinians
The Palestinian cheers over the “Afghan mujahedeen victory over the American Crusaders” create the impression that in their view, the Taliban are a worthy model...
Afghanistan Has Lessons for the Gulf
The Gulf states appear to be stuck, for the time being, with a less committed US. That reality will push them to compensate for uncertainty over...
Initial Taliban Moves Don’t Convince Afghanistan’s Neighbors of a New Regime
The Taliban’s record in recent weeks on making good on promises to respect human and women’s rights as well as uphold freedom of the press...
Taliban Victory Threatens to Be a Double-Edged Sword for Pakistan
The notion that religious ultra-conservatism may not remain contained to Afghanistan may be one reason why US President Joe Biden decided to effectively abandon Central...
The Real Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle for Israel
The seeds of the humiliating American withdrawal from Afghanistan were laid shortly after the post-9/11 US invasion of the country, when it refrained from confronting...
Afghanistan May Be a Bellwether for Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
Had the US withdrawn from Afghanistan several years earlier than it did, chances are that Saudi Arabia would have sought to exploit military advances by the...
The Taliban Victory as a Victory of Faith
To understand the last 40 years of the Islamic struggle in Afghanistan, it is worth looking at the legacy of Abdullah Azzam. Born in a...
The Flight of the Human-Rights Warriors From Afghanistan and Iran
JNS.org - I had already started writing this article when I stumbled upon an article in The Atlantic, “The Week the Left Stopped Caring About...
Has Biden Anything to Offer Bennett But More Trouble?
JNS.org - In theory, the planned meeting this week between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and President Joe Biden ought to be exactly what both...
The Taliban and Al-Qaeda: What Next?
The Taliban proved that they value loyalty when they rejected US and Saudi pressure to hand over Osama bin Laden no matter the cost. The...
