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U.S. fears are not only irrational—they’re a potential self-fulfilling prophecy.
The absence of a U.S. diplomatic presence leaves Washington powerless and strengthens the extremists in Kabul.
Extremist curriculum is teaching children how to hate, not how to think.
The U.N. meets this week to decide whether to play by Taliban rules or pull out. Both are bad.
Nothing says forever like the promise of Afghanistan’s mineral riches.
Washington withdrew from a 20-year fight against terrorism, vowing to maintain over-the-horizon capability. It’s still squinting.
Left in the cold, the extremists are falling back on an old trick of swapping foreigners for favors.
The Taliban are marking International Women’s Day with an ever-worsening cascade of abuses against women.
Inside the debate over whether the West should engage the regime.
Congress wants to know what happened to the guns and money the United States left behind.
As the Taliban start to crack, Afghanistan is once again the proxy battleground of terrorists and their backers.
Mahbouba Seraj, a rights activist and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, says there’s no choice now but to talk to Afghanistan’s new rulers.
The purported ban on opium and ephedra devastates poor farmers, enriches the Taliban, and has done nothing to curb addiction.
The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid.
The U.S. and U.N. are halting aid as the Taliban ratchet up their atrocities.
Misogyny gets headlines. The pillaging of international aid money goes unnoticed.
Fights with neighbors, terrorism attacks on the group’s few patrons, and concerns over Taliban defections darken Afghanistan’s future.
It’s not recognition yet—just resignation.
Unfreezing billions of dollars while huge revenues flow to Kabul risks legitimizing an extremist regime.
They are, increasingly, the only financial link that connects the country to the rest of the world.