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Thankful for where and what you are not
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TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Nov 26, 2021
This Thanksgiving week, I’m giving thanks for all the things I’m not. Of course, like so many Americans, I’m grateful to be able to rejoin my family t...
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Can the Taliban suppress the potent IS threat?
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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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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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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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President Biden’s man-made disasters
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RICH LOWRY 
Aug 18, 2021
President Biden arrived in office with the Southern border secure and Afghanistan in a state of fragile equilibrium. Eight months later, the border co...
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The Afghan withdrawal folly
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RICH LOWRY 
Jul 12, 2021
Barely a day passes without additional news of Taliban gains in Afghanistan. Perhaps the Afghan government and its forces will prove more resilient th...
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Exit strategy from Afghanistan
Apr 15, 2021
President Joe Biden’s announcement Wednesday that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the wit...
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How to end a long war
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2021
On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. That’s under a d...
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