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  2. Marines keep security as civilians wait for processing during the evacuation of non-combatants at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    Reuters
    US Foreign Policy

    The US Should Never Even Have Been in Afghanistan in August 2021

    In the News
    World Politics Review by Paul Poast

    "Afghanistan was indeed a failure of US foreign policy," Paul Poast writes. "But it wasn't a failure of the Biden administration."

  3. A US aircraft flies over Afghanistan
    US Department of Defense
    Defense and Security

    It's Time to Get the US Military out of the Middle East

    In the News
    World Politics Review by Paul Poast

    "The US military footprint in the Greater Middle East is undermining US strategic priorities elsewhere in the world," Paul Poast argues.

  4. Screenshot of Ivo Daalder on Medhi Hasan MSNBC. Defense and Security

    What US Proxy Wars Can Tell Us About Ukraine

    In the News
    MSNBC by Ivo H. Daalder

    "This isn't Afghanistan, and this isn't Syria. This is a country that's being attacked," says Ivo Daalder on MSNBC. "This is not a proxy war."

  5. Screenshot of Lizzy Shackelford on Fox TV
    Fox 32 Chicago
    US Foreign Policy

    Chaos Swirls in Afghanistan as President Biden Defends Decision to Pull Out

    In the News
    Fox 32 Chicago by Elizabeth Shackelford

    The Council's Lizzy Shackelford joins Fox 32 Chicago to analyze the Taliban's Afghanistan takeover and US foreign policy lessons from America's longest war.

  6. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division gather their equipment before boarding a CH-47F Chinook in the Nawa Valley, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
    US Army
    Defense and Security

    Will the Never-Ending War in Afghanistan Ever End?

    In the News
    Chicago Tribune by Ivo H. Daalder

    The war in Afghanistan has lasted more than 17 years, and the overall situation has improved little over those years.

  7. US soldiers in Afghanistan
    US Department of Defense
    Defense and Security

    Bipartisan Bill Could End Our Casual Relationship with War

    In the News
    Chicago Tribune by Elizabeth Shackelford

    The Council's Elizabeth Shackelford explains how a new bipartisan bill could renew Congressional war powers and reign in presidential power to engage the United States in conflict.

  8. U.S. Air Force pararescuemen carry an injured patient in Afghanistan
    DoD
    Defense and Security

    Ending War Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard

    In the News
    Chicago Tribune by Elizabeth Shackelford

    Elizabeth Shackelford explains why it's time for Congress to reassert limitations on our use of war.

  9. Afghanistan base after US soldiers leave
    REUTERS
    US Foreign Policy

    The US in Afghanistan: It Was Always Going to End This Way

    In the News
    Chicago Tribune by Elizabeth Shackelford

    "The inevitability of the outcome does not make it any less tragic, but the tragedy does not make the decision to withdraw wrong," Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains.

  10. Man on bicycle in front of Hamid Kerzal International airport in Kabul
    Reuters
    US Foreign Policy

    Disinformation Sowed Our Failure in Afghanistan

    In the News
    Chicago Tribune by Elizabeth Shackelford

    "You cannot build good foreign policy on dishonesty. But we keep trying to because no one pays for it," writes Elizabeth Shackelford.

  11. Screen shot of Elizabeth Shackelford speaking on CBC Canada.
    CBC News Canada
    US Foreign Policy

    Withdrawal from The "Forever War"

    In the News
    CBC News (Canada) by Elizabeth Shackelford

    Ahead of President Biden's address on August 31, Elizabeth Shackelford joins Ben Roswell on CBC News to discuss the US’s completed withdrawal from Afghanistan.

  12. The End of America's Longest War
    WGN-9 Chicago
    US Foreign Policy

    The End of America's Longest War

    In the News
    WGN Chicago by Ivo H. Daalder

    Council President Ivo Daalder discusses the end of the war in Afghanistan with WGN's Paul Lisnek.

  13. Ivo Daalder with Paris Schultz on WTTW Tonight screen shot
    WTTW Chicago Tonight
    US Foreign Policy

    As US Military Leaves Kabul, Many Americans, Afghans Remain

    In the News
    WTTW by Ivo H. Daalder

    Catch Council President Ivo Daalder on WTTW's Chicago Tonight discussing what the evacuation from Afghanistan means for US and NATO allies.

  14. Cecile Shea on WTTW
    WTTW Chicago Tonight
    US Foreign Policy

    Biden Says He Stands 'Squarely Behind' Afghanistan Decision

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    WTTW by Cécile Shea

    The Council's Cécile Shea joins WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" to explain why she believes Afghanistan's collapse was inevitable—and what could happen next.

  15. A special issue looking back at 2008 and 2009. ...

    Mounting coalition casualties, resurgent Taliban activity, and instability in Pakistan have renewed American attention to the war in Afghanistan. ... In October 2008, Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, Afghani-stan’s minister of finance, discussed the economic and https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/communique_08-09_annual_report.pdf
  16. The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations 2 0 0 ...

    of China, General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, King Abdullah II of Jordan, President Mary McAleese of Ireland, President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of ... Highlights of the past three https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/annual_report_2002-05.pdf
  17. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is a nonpartisan, ...

    The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs. All statements of fact and expressions of opinion contained in this report are the sole responsibility https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/Less%20is%20More%20-%20US%20SSA%20to%20Africa%208-2023%2C%20Published.pdf
  18. Pivot to Europe: US Public Opinion in a Time ...

    From a chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan to worries about nuclear confrontation to mounting domestic challenges, several reasons could explain why support for playing an active part in world https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022%20Chicago%20Council%20Survey%20Report%20PDF_0.pdf
  19. Working Paper: How Economic Sanctions are Used in U.S. ...

    relations with Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Afghanistan. From the Treasury Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, a small team of American bureaucrats impose economic and travel restrictions on https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Sanctions%20Working%20Paper%20-%20CCGA%20Template.pdf