#Damning pic of a weak leader: Devine

#Damning pic of a weak leader: Devine

“#Damning pic of a weak leader: Devine” What possessed the White House to tweet out a photo of Joe Biden all alone in a conference room at Camp David as Kabul fell to the Taliban Sunday? Isolated, feeble, indecisive: that is the lasting image of the president of the United States as his nation suffered…

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#Can we export democracy and other commentary

#Can we export democracy and other commentary

“#Can we export democracy and other commentary” Intellectual: Can We Export Democracy? “Should we conclude from” America’s Afghanistan failure “that democracy cannot be exported?” asks Guy Sorman at City Journal. “Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan and Tunisia demonstrate the contrary. But everything depends on circumstances and local culture.” India’s “local traditions of election and deliberation…

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#Running away from a ‘nation building’ mess

#Running away from a ‘nation building’ mess

“#Running away from a ‘nation building’ mess” Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite of nation-building is not running away. It is being realistic.   After World War II, Japan rebuilt Japan. West Germany rebuilt West Germany….

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#Team Biden’s nuke-deal talks are positively absurd

#Team Biden’s nuke-deal talks are positively absurd

“#Team Biden’s nuke-deal talks are positively absurd” President Joe Biden’s insistence on resuming Team Obama’s disastrous 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran has truly entered the world of the absurd: Even as Biden officials entertain talks with Tehran, they’ve also been coordinating with the United Kingdom, Romania and Israel to launch a retaliatory response following what…

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#Team Biden’s petty, foolish push to undermine the Abraham Accords

#Team Biden’s petty, foolish push to undermine the Abraham Accords

“#Team Biden’s petty, foolish push to undermine the Abraham Accords” Team Biden seems determined to dismantle all its predecessor’s policies — even those that promised to transform the dysfunctional Middle East for the better. The White House “suspended the Abraham Fund indefinitely,” Israeli financial paper Globes reported last week, citing US and Israeli sources. The public-private…

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#Biden is badly fumbling the US pullout from Afghanistan

#Biden is badly fumbling the US pullout from Afghanistan

“#Biden is badly fumbling the US pullout from Afghanistan” Barely a day passes without news of more Taliban gains in Afghanistan. Perhaps the Afghan government and its forces will prove more resilient than many expect, but if the country continues its slide toward chaos or, worse, the Taliban rapidly take Kabul, President Joe Biden’s decision…

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