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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
4/16/2021
Biden Just Made a Historic Break With the Logic of Forever War
by Stephen Wertheim
A historian of American interventionism says that Joe Biden's apparent determination to withdraw from Afghanistan is a significant break from recent precedents, and possibly signals a shift away from perpetual war.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
4/19/2021
Is America’s Longest Forever War Really Coming To An End?
by Adam Weinstein and Stephen Wertheim
The authors argue that Joe Biden has recognized that the US faces the choice of absolute withdrawal from Afghanistan or permanent entanglement. His resolve will be tested by inevitable bad news, but the time is now to move on from the policy of perpetual war.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/13/2021
Biden Can Redeem His Mistake
by George Packer
Writer George Packer argues that withdrawing from Afghanistan repeats a mistake of the Vietnam era: abandoning groups who took the grave risk of allying with the United States.
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4/11/2021
Making Religious Peace in Afghanistan
by Wayne Te Brake
American policymakers must recognize the distinctly religious components of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, and learn from European wars of religion: the key to ending war is brokering a political agreement that protects religious diversity.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/28/2021
America’s Longest War Winds Down
by Andrew Bacevich
Public fatigue over the ongoing War on Terror must not allow political leaders to do what they seem to want most to do: avoid taking responsibility or learning lessons.
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SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
3/30/2021
Will Afghanistan make Biden's Presidency Turn Out like Truman's or LBJ's?
by Joe Cirincione
"Joe Biden can be a great president. But not if he is so afraid of attacks from the right that he repeats LBJ’s blunder and stumbles into a war we cannot win and never need fight."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/7/2021
Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives
by Nick Turse
Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror.
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12/20/2020
Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 2 – Is There Even a "Trump Doctrine"?
by Brian Glyn Williams
Many Americans have bought Donald Trump's claim that he seeks to extricate the U.S. from "endless wars," including in Afghanistan. Viewed in the context of his other foreign policy actions, this claim is nonsensical, and undermines the work being done in support of global democracy and American interests.
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12/20/2020
Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 1 – Abandoning a Vulnerable Ally in the War on Terror
by Brian Glyn Williams
Donald Trump's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan misrepresents the scope and costs of the American mission and ignores the high stakes of failure for both Afghans and American security, according to a scholar of the War on Terror.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
7/26/2020
Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex as a Cytokine Storm
by William Astore
Sadly, it’s a reasonable bet that in the long run, even with Donald Trump as president, America has a better chance of defeating COVID-19 than the virus of forever war.
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SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
6/28/2020
Letters From An American: June 27, 2020
by Heather Cox Richardson
A series of stories from the Trump administration over the weekend don't add up.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
6/28/2020
Trump Likely did Throw US Troops in Afghanistan under the Bus, but Why would the Russians have Targeted Them?
by Juan Cole
In Washington, a leak like this makes you ask questions. Who leaked the information and why?
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/22/2020
What Americans Don’t Know About Military Families
by Andrea Mazzarino
All evidence indicates that military service tends to erode the fabric of family life and that, in reality, the state of America’s most fundamental union is anything but strong.
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3/15/2020
The Cost of Loyalty: A Crisis of Ethics in the Military
by Timothy Bakken
Military leadership has inculcated a self-serving culture of loyalty that prevents a long-overdue reckoning with its failures.
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SOURCE: LawFare
1/21/20
Why Haven't the Afghanistan Papers Gotten More Attention?
by David V. Gioe
The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
12/15/19
Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decades
by William D. Hartung
The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
12/17/19
The (Failed) War on Terror's Precursor
by Danny Sjursen
It Was “Progress” All the Way Then, Too
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12/15/19
A Real Red Wedding Massacre Puts Lie to Trump's Claim That he "Obliterated" ISIS
by Brian Glyn Williams and Javed Rezayee
The human cost of the war in Afghanistan.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/9/19
After 3 Year FOIA Lawsuit, Washington Post Publishes Afghanistan Papers, A Secret History of the War
More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/9/19
'Modern-day Pentagon Papers’: Comparing the Afghanistan Papers to blockbuster Vietnam War study
Both studies were commissioned by obscure Defense Department agencies, Both are massive, and Both involved court battles, but 1971 was more dramatic.
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