Outside the Beltway

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

Two unclassified after-action reports shine a new—if one-sided—light on the evacuation.

Their case is less than persuasive.

A video that is worth your time.

The notion of a kinder, gentler version has quickly been debunked.

Humanitarian instincts rightly trumped security concerns.

After 20 years, the conflict closes much as it began.

I guess you proved your point about great powers picking and choosing their battlefields.

What we know of the American servicemembers killed.

An unsatisfying first(?) response.

Thirteen Marines and dozens of Afghan civilians are dead in a much-anticipated attack.

Grandstanding in the midst of chaos is a bad look.

The evacuation could soon become a terrorist target.

They’ve got a lot of gall blaming Biden for this mess.

Well, this escalated quickly.

We’re not getting Afghans—or even American citizens trapped there—out fast enough.

A legendary journalist is gone.

A humanitarian crisis made worse by shameful delays.

The collapse is not his doing. But he’s accountable for the poor planning.

The mirage of semi-order faded quickly.

The postmortems are well underway.

The collapse is coming even faster than feared.

The President hit all the right notes.

Our last-ditch airstrikes only postpone the inevitable.

A shameful exit from an ill-conceived war.

For years, American troops fought a ‘forever war’ to delay the inevitable. It’s now coming.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

A very strange approach to talent management.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

A serving officer was arrested for his part in events of 6 January

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

Yes, it’s complicated, but it is also time to stop relying on cliches.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

Four administrations and two decades later, it’s about to be over.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

Some reflections

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

As expected, the Congress has overridden his veto of the NDAA.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

The Daily on the Russia bounty story.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.