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Ripping quotes from “enemy” media out of context to make them look stupid or craven is a fun bipartisan pastime but this is a nasty example given the risk Clarissa Ward is facing to report live from Kabul as the barbarians roll in.

This tragedy deserves far more care in coverage than a political “winners and losers” story.

The American public now has what it wanted.

And what the Biden administration must do now.

The U.S. abandoned my friends. Now they are trapped in Afghanistan and hiding from the Taliban.

Nixon wanted — and got — his decent interval between the United States pullout of Vietnam and the inevitable North Vietnamese takeover. Afghanistan’s interval was never going to be decent, but I…

Our abandonment of the Afghans who helped us, counted on us, and staked their lives on us is a final, gratuitous shame that we could have avoided.

State Department mailbox crashes under weight of thousands of SIV applications

The U.S. has a responsibility to protect Afghans from the mass atrocities of the Taliban.

The situation in Afghanistan is dire. But it is not too late to deploy forces to stabilize it, and ultimately turn it around. We can at least avoid the worst outcome, a collapse and slaughter that would be a catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan and a strategic and moral disaster for the United States. […]