The October 2021 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is now arriving in mailboxes. Digital subscribers can read the entire issue digitally. Non-subscribers canaccess select articles.
"At the very least we can hope that Americans will have learned by now, at long last, to adopt a high degree of skepticism about the next war, whether it is with Iran, North Korea or some other foe that we will be told is the root of all evil and must be subdued by righteous American might," Walter L. Hixson writes.
"American intelligence, in Iraq as in Afghanistan, proved to be an oxymoron, and the hubris that categorized the occupation and remolding of Iraq was an accurate precursor of the chaos on the road to Kabul," notes Ian Williams.
More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed. John Pilger explores the fraught history of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan.
