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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden must rescue thousands of U.S. citizens trapped in Afghanistan — As the situation on the ground in Afghanistan's capital continues to deteriorate, thousands of U.S. citizens are trapped in and around Kabul with no ability to get to the airport, which is their only way out of the country.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
Three Killed in Kabul Airport as Afghans Scramble to Escape Taliban
Three Killed in Kabul Airport as Afghans Scramble to Escape Taliban
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Preston Byrne:
Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
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ABC News:
Afghanistan updates: Chaos at Kabul airport, world responds
Afghanistan updates: Chaos at Kabul airport, world responds
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House weighs response as Biden faces mounting criticism over Afghanistan crisis
White House weighs response as Biden faces mounting criticism over Afghanistan crisis
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Washington Examiner:
WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
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Anatol Lieven / Politico:
Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms
Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Merkel says latest Afghan developments ‘awful’
The Latest: Merkel says latest Afghan developments ‘awful’
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Our Military Is A Woke Joke
Our Military Is A Woke Joke
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Ben Sasse / National Review:
Worse Than Saigon — In yielding Afghanistan to the Taliban, Joe Biden has engineered …
Worse Than Saigon — In yielding Afghanistan to the Taliban, Joe Biden has engineered …
Noah Rothman / MSNBC:
The fall of Afghanistan in 2021 is the result of years of American delusion
The fall of Afghanistan in 2021 is the result of years of American delusion
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James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?
Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?
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Jacqui Heinrich / Fox News:
US prepares to house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations
US prepares to house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations
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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.
He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he's desperately fleeing Afghanistan.
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BBC:
Afghanistan: US takes control of Kabul airport to evacuate staff from country
Afghanistan: US takes control of Kabul airport to evacuate staff from country
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Lynsey Addario / The Atlantic:
The Taliban's Return Is Catastrophic for Women
The Taliban's Return Is Catastrophic for Women
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The 1 Thing That Could've Changed the War in Afghanistan
The 1 Thing That Could've Changed the War in Afghanistan
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
America's Failures in Afghanistan Were Bipartisan and Long-Running
America's Failures in Afghanistan Were Bipartisan and Long-Running
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CNN:
Biden admits Afghanistan's collapse ‘did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated’
Biden admits Afghanistan's collapse ‘did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated’
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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.
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
A conservative cardinal who criticized the vaccine caught covid. Days later, he was put on a ventilator. — Most days during the coronavirus pandemic, Cardinal Raymond L. Burke could be found strolling down the streets of Rome maskless and carrying rosary beads.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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