Accidental Guerrilla News Today

In debates about U.S. retrenchment from the Middle East, non-material considerations like cyber power matter just as much.

“To govern is to choose,” a French prime minister once said, and this week, President Joe Biden made a difficult strategic choice. He announced a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, 20 years after they arrived. For several years, the United States had been unwilling to make a choice in Afghanistan, settling into a policy that was more a punt than a strategy. Biden should be commended for actually making a hard choice and not kicking the can down the road one m...