The Republican congressman, who traveled to Afghanistan last week on an unsanctioned trip, believes that staying beyond the August 31 withdrawal deadline would be worse than leaving.

It normally takes more than two years to get a refugee out of the country. The president doesn’t have that kind of time.

It’s tragic to watch the Taliban on the march. But the one unalterable truth we’ve learned is that we can’t create a nation out of gestures and statements.

Why haven’t progressives mounted more of a challenge to the war in Afghanistan?

Why U.S. officials taking tea with local Afghan elders seem to be wasting their time.

We have more options in Afghanistan than Biddle lets on.