by Mark Angelides | Sep 7, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
An American family of four has been rescued in a daring dash across Afghanistan to leave by an as-yet-unnamed land border. The Texan mother, Mariam, and her three children were greeted at the border by U.S. officials. Clearly, this appears a big win for President Joe...
by Mark Angelides | Sep 6, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration, Good Reads, Opinion
High on the rhetoric of no one left behind, the Biden administration made promise after promise to secure every person who wanted to leave Afghanistan. As the official U.S. mission ended, the reins were taken over by private individuals and organizations. However,...
by Mark Angelides | Aug 30, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, International
With just hours to go before the August 31 deadline for withdrawal of all U.S. citizens, allies, and military from Afghanistan, the situation at Kabul airport is deteriorating quickly. In the early hours of Monday morning (August 30), several rockets were launched...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 28, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Prior to the deadly suicide bombings in Kabul on August 26, Security Alert from the Department of State (DOS) stopped all Americans in Kabul from making their way to the airport and encouraged those already at the airport gates to go away. Unfortunately, the State...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 26, 2021 | Articles, International
Shortly after 7 p.m. Eastern Time on August 25, the U.S. State Department issued a dire warning to Americans in Afghanistan: don’t go near the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport. For the Biden administration, the Kabul catastrophe just gets worse. The...
