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Afghanistan, The Rock And The Hard Place by William Milam

I was torn by conflicting emotions when, as I expected, President Biden announced that the US would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. That is the 20th anniversary, of course, of Al Qaeda’s attack on the United States, which killed close to 3,000 Americans in New York City and Washington, […]

US withdrawal From Afghanistan Is A Pandora’s Box by Ali Cinar

President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will withdraw its remaining troops from the “forever war” in Afghanistan, declaring that the September 11 attacks of 20 years ago cannot justify American forces continuing to die in the nation’s longest war. The previous date set in negotiations with the Taliban during former President Donald […]

Bangladesh: A Battered Business by Mohammad Zainal Abedin

The international community dismayingly watched how Bangladeshis denounced the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh on the 50th. anniversary of its independence.  Though Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh was under the cover of an unprecedented security carpet, his visit was marred by huge demonstrations of thousands of common people along the […]

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