Afghanistan debacle: analysis and comment
Editor’s note: we at Anglican Mainstream do not claim in any way to be experts on the tragic situation in Afghanistan but recognise that what is happening has a complex background and profound implications, firstly for the people of that country, but also long term for global international relations and how we see ourselves in the West. Here are a selection of articles, mostly giving personal opinion of what has gone wrong and what might happen in future:
Britain is ignoring the fate of Afghan Christians – George Carey, Telegraph
The Dreadful Consequences of the Biden Disaster in Afghanistan by Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute
Where is good and evil in Afghanistan? by Tom Bowring, Psephizo
The Afghan Resistance has begun by Bernard-Henri Lévy, UnHerd
‘The situation in Afghanistan is a faith gone terribly wrong’: Bishop Michael Nazir Ali
The West has lost its virtue, by Paul Kingsnorth, UnHerd
Clarissa Ward in Kabul: what the Taliban are really like by Freddie Sayers, UnHerd
Biden’s Appalling Mistake is a Watershed for the West by Gwythian Prins, Gatestone Institute
Taliban sharia: how will they ‘respect’ women’s rights and press freedom? by Archbishop Cranmer
Biden’s most heartless betrayal by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, UnHerd. America cares more about pronouns than the fate of Afghan women
Afghanistan is the ‘graveyard of empires’. How did we ever forget that? by Louis T March, MercatorNet
From Biden to the Taliban with Love by Burak Bekdil, Gatestone Institute
Afghanistan: What Went Wrong? by Robert Spencer, Frontpage
The rout of America by Melanie Phillips
The betrayal of Afghanistan by Brendan O’Neill, spiked (article dated 12 August)
We Once Waltzed in Kabul by Bari Weiss