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The Atlantic 1:56 PM ET Charles Ommanney / Getty Who lost Afghanistan? Generations of diplomatic and military historians will debate that question, and there will be blame to share among presidents, members of Congress, generals, and statesmen. Here’s an easier question: Who lost the debate over when to leave Afghanistan? The military did. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced that the United States would fully withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, exactly two decades after the attacks that incited the American invasion. As Biden weighed his options, top generals argued str...

Biden watched three presidents fail to end a war he saw as distracting from bigger threats like China and Russia. Now he’s pulling the plug.

Print WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has watched a parade of presidents set sweeping goals for the United States overseas, only to become entangled in long-running, slow-bleeding problems. Now that he has the job himself, Biden is determined to avoid the same fate. His pledge to end the two-decade U.S. war in Afghanistan is the best example so far. Biden sees the war against the Taliban as a drag on the need to deal with bigger threats like China, climate change, the coronavirus pandemic - and even a terrorism menace that has mutated significantly in the two decades since the attacks th...

CIA Director says pulling troops from Afghanistan presents ‘significant risk’ CIA Director William Burns listens during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 11:31 AM PT – Wednesday, April 14, 2021 CIA Director William Burns has pushed back on the White House’s decision to withdrawal troops from Afghanistan. While speaking at the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing Wednesday, he said pulling troops out of region would hurt the CIA’s ...

New Oakland Institute report: Sri Lanka is an ‘ethnocratic state’, should be referred to Int'l Criminal Court (ICC) News Provided By March 16, 2021, 07:33 GMT Share This Article Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka " The report is titled Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka." Military occupation of the traditional Tamil land is extreme – with a ratio of one soldier for every six civilians in the Northern Province & one soldier for two civilians in the Mullaithivu District” — Oa...