Scenes from 18 years of U.S Afghanistan, American history, as Washington suspends peace talks with Taliban. ..…

Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain’s ambassador and special representative to Afghanistan from 2007 to 2010, whom I met in Richard Holbrooke’s suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in 2009 and who praised me for my resignation letter, described the main impediment to negotiations during his many year..…

And indeed, the Schurman Commission came to the conclusion that Filipinos were not ready for independence or self-governance and needed further U.S. presence in the islands to pursue those ends, a perspective that echoes closely the “bringing democracy to the world” narrative that fueled the post-9/11..…

From the failed efforts to implement Counterinsurgency Afghanistan, to the false deadlines Obama established for withdrawal, nothing American leaders have done has achieved the goal of Afghanistan that is inhospitable to Muslim terrorist organizations with transnational..…