Vol. 37, No. 17

09/06/2021

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Twenty Years of Effort in Afghanistan Speedily Converted to an “Unmitigated Disaster”

“I think the Taliban takeover is an unmitigated disaster. Afghanistan [will return to] a pre-9/11 state — a breeding ground for terrorism. Mr. Biden could have had a strategy for this [but didn’t].”

Texas Representative Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed the thinking of many when he appeared on CNN’s State of the Union program on August 15, the date when Taliban fighters poured into Kabul. 

Families of 9/11 Victims Disinvite Biden to 20th Anniversary Remembrance

“We cannot in good faith, and with veneration to those lost, sick and injured, welcome the president to our hallowed ground until he fulfills his commitment.”

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