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5:45 PM ET, August 16, 2021

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Tara Copp / Defense One:
Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban  —  The Air Force evacuation flight from Kabul to Qatar came near the record for most people ever flown in the Boeing airlifter.  — AFGHANISTAN - WHITE HOUSE - AIR FORCE - CIVILIANS
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Associated Press:
The latest on Afghanistan: Four Afghans dead after fall from US plane wheel well  —  Here's the latest on the rapidly unfolding events related to Afghanistan:  —  Report: Afghans who worked for US may temporarily go to bases in Wisconsin and Texas  —  The U.S. intends to evacuate tens …
Daniel Silverberg / The Atlantic:
Biden Was Right  —  In 2017, I arrived at Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation.  Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles away, safety concerns necessitated our helicoptering from a recently constructed multimillion-dollar transit facility instead of traveling by road.
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Afghan security forces' wholesale collapse was years in the making  —  In the summer of 2011, Army Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV made a round of public appearances to boast that he had finally solved a problem that had kept U.S. troops bogged down in Afghanistan for a decade.
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
US reaches deal with Taliban on evacuations: report  —  The U.S. has reached a deal with the Taliban to ensure that evacuations from Kabul's airport can take place without interference from the group, according to a report by The Associated Press.  —  The deal was reached in talks in Doha …
Brett Bruen / USA Today:
Ex-Obama adviser: Why Biden must fire his national security adviser for Afghanistan failure  —  The people, plans and processes that President Joe Biden has put in place to keep America safe are not working.  —  President Joe Biden needs to shake up his national security team.
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence  —  (CNN)At the heart of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign was a single word: competence.  —  After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything, the Biden argument was that the country badly needed a steady hand on the tiller …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
After Sunday It's Even More Clear Biden Was Right  —  Americans, or at least the commentating classes, are watching aghast as events unfold in Afghanistan.  Some are second-guessing the wisdom of withdrawal - after all, how hard is it to maintain a few thousand soldiers there permanently?
The Guardian:
An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’  —  A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’  —  arly on Sunday morning I was heading to university for a class when a group of women came running out from the women's dormitory.
Daria Litvinova / Associated Press:
Uzbekistan says it downed Afghan military plane crossing in  —  MOSCOW (AP) — An Afghan military plane was downed by Uzbekistan's air defense system on Sunday over an attempt to illegally enter the country's air space, Uzbek authorities said Monday.  —  The downing took place in southeastern Uzbekistan …
Discussion: Breitbart
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Afghanistan Is Your Fault  —  Kabul has fallen.  Americans will now exercise their usual partisan outrage for a few weeks, and then Afghanistan, like everything else in a nation with an attention span not much longer than a fast-food commercial, will be forgotten.
Wall Street Journal:
Three Killed in Kabul Airport as Afghans Scramble to Escape Taliban
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House weighs response as Biden faces mounting criticism over Afghanistan crisis
Washington Examiner:
WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
Discussion: Fox News and Crooks and Liars
Anatol Lieven / Politico:
Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms
Politico:
Who's to blame for Afghanistan?
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:   A Moment for Soul-Searching  —  My Afghanistan war lasted almost exactly two years …
Wesley Morgan / Washington Post:
He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he's desperately fleeing Afghanistan.
United States Department of State:
Joint Statement on Afghanistan
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
America's Failures in Afghanistan Were Bipartisan and Long-Running
Discussion: Twin Cities and Power Line
Olivier Knox / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Kamala Harris heads to Singapore and Vietnam in second trip as vice president
Axios:
Scoop: Investigation finds fired Tennessee vaccine official mailed dog muzzle to self  —  A Tennessee investigation found evidence that the state's fired vaccine chief, Michelle Fiscus, purchased a dog muzzle that she previously claimed someone had mailed in an attempt to intimidate her.
Discussion: USA Today
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz, and the ugly attacks on CNN's Clarissa Ward  —  The political right has plenty to work with right now on Afghanistan.  The withdrawal from that country has gone poorly — significantly more poorly than the Biden administration predicted it would — legitimizing long-standing GOP arguments …
CNN:
Exclusive: Title, cover and details of new Trump book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa revealed  —  (CNN)First it was “Fear,” then it was “Rage,” now it is “Peril.”  That is the title of the highly-anticipated third book about President Trump from legendary journalist Bob Woodward …
Discussion: The Guardian
Associated Press:
Detainee says China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs  —  A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and HotAir
 
 
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