afghanistan

Watch over the Ukrainian war chest
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
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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Corruption abroad? What about thieving here?
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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
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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
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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
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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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The ugly ending we all saw coming
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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
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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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Stranded in the White House
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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
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
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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?
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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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