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.

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

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 …

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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 …