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Biden has signaled he would sign the repeal of the Iraq AUMFs. The war on terror should be next.
Please join Robert Zoellick, Susan Glasser, and Melvyn Leffler for a discussion of Leffler’s new book, Confronting Saddam Hussein, moderated by Chris Chivvis, director of the Carnegie Endowment American Statecraft Program.
In the last decade, nondemocratic regimes have received more development assistance than democratic countries. This reveals how donors struggle with autocratization despite a rhetorical commitment to democracy.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was a strategic imperative delivered with a frightening degree of incompetence, lack of preparation, and confusion.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was a strategic imperative delivered with a frightening degree of incompetence, lack of preparation, and confusion.
As the United States moves forward in Afghanistan, it should have one primary objective: supporting the resilience of the Afghan people to weather the storms they have in front of them.
All the more heartbreaking because it didn't have to go this way. Now Afghanistan is completely off the tracks with the Afghan people, once again, paying the bill for decisions that are made elsewhere.
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Jennifer Murtazashvili about the problems with imposing liberal democracy in Afghanistan, building state capacity, education, the role of the U.S. in the Ghani government’s collapse and much more.
It was a victory for Biden, but the jihadi threat to United States is not nearly as acute as the challenges that ail the nation internally.
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