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"It is time to end the forever war." So said President Joe Biden in his announcement that, as of Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, all U.S. troops will be gone from Afghanistan. The longest war in our history, which cost 2,400 dead, 20,000 wounded and $2 trillion, is ending -- but only for Americans, not Afghans. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured our NATO allies in Brussels that we are all leaving with our mission accomplished: "Together we went into Afghanistan to deal with those who attacked us and to make sure that Afghanistan wou...

“It is time to end the forever war.” So said President Joe Biden in his announcement that, as of Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, all U.S. troops will be gone from Afghanistan. The longest war in our history, which cost 2,400 dead, 20,000 wounded and $2 trillion, is ending — but only for Americans, not Afghans. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured our NATO allies in Brussels that we are all leaving with our mission accomplished: “Together we went into Afghanistan to deal with those who attacked us and to make sure that Afghanis...

A year after Gabrielle Robinson was born, her father died in World War II, an Austrian-born pilot shot down in his German plane over England. So the young girl turned to a gent she called Api, her grandfather. “I had the happiest years of my childhood with him,” she recalls of his empathy, his hope, his respect for nature and his steady affection through Germany’s meager post-war years. “He meant everything to me.” She never pondered that Api could have supported the Nazis’ atrocities. He’d served as a military doctor in exchange for a scholarship that allow...

TUPELO • When Joe Edd Morris rises each morning to write, the last things on his mind are awards, medals, money and recognition.

Assistant editor at the conservative publication American Greatness, Pedro Gonzalez, on Monday said that Trumpism had progressed past being a movement and had become something "between a business and a racket."