Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan?

Chris, Melanie, and Zack debate the wisdom of President Joe
Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. They
discuss the argument made by Meghan O'Sullivan and
Richard Haass that the Biden administration should have kept
a small force in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future, but
question whether that would have been sufficient to
accomplish U.S. objectives. Chris also issues a warning to
virtue signalers, Zack calls for more virtue signaling with
India, and Melanie is aggrieved by the election of Iran to the
U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.


 


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Troops Out of Afghanistan. But We Can Minimize the Damage."
Washington Post, April 16, 2021

Richard Fontaine, "The Case Against Foreign Policy
Solutionism," Foreign Affairs, February 8, 2021

Eliot A. Cohen, "Exit Strategy," The Atlantic, April
13, 2021

Afghanistan Study Group, "A Pathway for Peace in
Afghanistan," United States Institute of Peace, February 3, 2021

Soner Cagaptay, "Biden Recognizing the Armenian Genocide
Shows How Far Turkey and Erdogan Have Fallen," NBC News, April
24, 2021

Stephen Wertheim, “Biden Just Made a Historic Break with the
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Oren Liebermann, Ellie Kaufman and Devan Cole, “Nearly 40% of
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Senior Fellow, New American Engagement Initiative, Atlantic
Council

Robert Manning, “Reality Check #5: Learning to Live with a
Nuclear North Korea,” New American Engagement Initiative,
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council,
April 26, 2021

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Afghanistan," White House, April 14, 2021

Michael Crowley, "Biden Officials Place Hope in Taliban's
Desire for Legitimacy and Money," New York Times, April 23, 2021

"UK Parliament Declares Genocide in China's Xinjiang; Beijing
Condemns Move," Reuters, April 23, 2021

Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo, "Iran's Election to UN Women's
Body Draws Outrage from Rights Activists, US Silence," VOA News,
April 24, 2021

John Bew, Citizen Clem, (London: Riverrun, 2016)

Future Foreign Policy Series: Featuring Wendy Cutler on US
Trade Policy, May 17, 2021, 12:00PM, Atlantic Council (via Zoom)