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    ‘Like sugar in the rain’: America surrendered in Afghanistan
    Commentary, Nation World
    ‘Like sugar in the rain’: America surrendered in Afghanistan
    JOHN J. WATERS RealClearPolitics 
    Aug 27, 2024
    President Joe Biden said he ended the war in Afghanistan. In truth he abandoned it.{/div} Over 20 years, 800,000 young Americans did their duty to cou...
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    Watch over the Ukrainian war chest
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    Watch over the Ukrainian war chest
    Aug 18, 2022
    One year after the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, a government watchdog is still doing its vital work of accounting for the more than $146 billion i...
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    The just killing of Ayman al-Zawahri
    Nation World, New York, Opinion
    The just killing of Ayman al-Zawahri
    Aug 03, 2022
    We have waited 7,629 days since 9/11, almost 21 years, to announce the death of Ayman al-Zawahri, an eye surgeon who was the No. 2 man and power behin...
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    Can the Taliban suppress the potent IS threat?
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    Can the Taliban suppress the potent IS threat?
    SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press 
    Oct 13, 2021
    KABUL, Afghanistan — With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, there’s a new enemy ascending. The Islamic State group threatens to usher in another vi...
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    Corruption abroad? What about thieving here?
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    Corruption abroad? What about thieving here?
    TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
    Oct 08, 2021
    My first reaction when I read the secret details from the Pandora Papers about how the world’s rich hide their assets was: What else is new? Do we nee...
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    20 years later, critical lessons from 9/11
    Local Columnists, Nation World
    20 years later, critical lessons from 9/11
    LEE EDWARDS Tribune News Service 
    Sep 11, 2021
    It is understandable, given the chaos surrounding the U.S. exit from Afghanistan — especially the murder of the 13 U.S. troops — that our attention ha...
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    Questions about Afghan refugees
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    Questions about Afghan refugees
    BYRON YORK 
    Sep 10, 2021
    Biden administration officials are proud of their effort to airlift about 118,000 Afghans, plus somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 U.S. citizens, from ...
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    No, Afghanistan is not the end of US power
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    No, Afghanistan is not the end of US power
    RICH LOWRY 
    Sep 09, 2021
    It’s hard to imagine more humiliating images than what we’ve seen in Afghanistan, from the hasty evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to the chaoti...
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    Schumer on Afghanistan: ‘We’re still working on getting people out’
    News, NY State News
    Schumer on Afghanistan: ‘We’re still working on getting people out’
    TERI WEAVER syracuse.com 
    Sep 03, 2021
    SYRACUSE (TNS) — Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said Friday he and other officials in Congress and the State Department are continuing to work...
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    Many veterans of Afghanistan looking for someone to talk to these days
    News
    Many veterans of Afghanistan looking for someone to talk to these days
    RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
    Sep 03, 2021
    A local Afghanistan veteran drinks a lot of coffee these days as he’s talked with many veterans over the past couple of weeks about the U.S. military ...
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    The ugly ending we all saw coming
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    The ugly ending we all saw coming
    BYRON YORK 
    Sep 02, 2021
    At 9:05 Monday night, State Department spokesman Ned Price issued a plaintive message to the new rulers of Afghanistan. “The Taliban needs to meet its...
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    Sorry, this was not a success
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    Sorry, this was not a success
    RICH LOWRY 
    Sep 01, 2021
    Talk about a catastrophic success. The Biden administration wants credit for the Afghanistan evacuation as measured by the sheer number of people it f...
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    Last troops exit Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war
    News
    Last troops exit Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war
    ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press 
    Aug 31, 2021
    WASHINGTON — The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war and closing a chapter in military history l...
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    Reed blames troops’ deaths on failure of Biden’s Afghan pullout
    Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
    Reed blames troops’ deaths on failure of Biden’s Afghan pullout
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    Aug 26, 2021
    U.S. Rep. Tom Reed blamed President Joe Biden in the wake of terror attacks in Afghanistan that killed 12 Marines and one Navy medic, and wounded at l...
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    Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan’s Islamic State?
    Local Columnists, Nation World
    Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan’s Islamic State?
    KATHY GANNON and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press 
    Aug 26, 2021
    The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for Thursday’s deadly suicide attacks outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six y...
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    Stranded in the White House
    Local Columnists, Nation World
    Stranded in the White House
    BYRON YORK 
    Aug 26, 2021
    The Biden administration says it does not know how many U.S. citizens are in Afghanistan hoping to leave in the face of the American withdrawal and Ta...
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    The media’s finest hour
    Local Columnists, Nation World
    The media’s finest hour
    RICH LOWRY 
    Aug 25, 2021
    Poor Ron Klain. It’s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to re-tweet favorable news coverage and all he ...
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    The United States of incompetence
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    The United States of incompetence
    JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
    Aug 23, 2021
    By acting nobly on slavery, Abraham Lincoln once said, America could be “the last best hope of Earth.” But right now we look more like the United Stat...
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    Who will believe Joe Biden now?
    Local Columnists, Nation World
    Who will believe Joe Biden now?
    RICH LOWRY 
    Aug 21, 2021
    Joe Biden did to himself what his opponents couldn’t — shredded his own credibility in a high-profile, hugely consequential matter that won’t be forgo...
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    Steep cost of mishandling our withdrawal from Afghanistan
    News
    Steep cost of mishandling our withdrawal from Afghanistan
    ROBERT L. WILKIE Tribune News Service 
    Aug 20, 2021
    In March 1975, an American president was fighting to save an American ally from being overrun by an implacable enemy. The North Vietnamese Army, mount...
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    Salamanca students receive CRCF scholarships
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    SALAMANCA — Three Salamanca High School graduates were recently awarded scholarship funds through the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. Jacob H...
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