Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Institutional change is hard because one can invest a lot in anti-corruption commission for years and then a new government can come along and undercut the commission for their own political reasons.
Long-term, it is necessary to reform not just the state administration but also the way the state manages the economy. There are a lot of issues to do with corruption.
The Biden administration is using the democracy summity to try to set out an agenda to renew democracy, both globally and also in the United States.
Maha Yahya discusses the ripple effects of 9/11 on the Arab region.
Iraq has been holding a regional summit, aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.
Well what President Biden has done, inadvertently of course, is to put the band back together. They’re back. The Taliban are back. Al-Qaeda will be back with them.
We are not a 100% certain how much equipment the Taliban have acquired because we haven’t always taken terrific accountability of what equipment went where at what time, particularly when it came to small arms.
I could have imagined securing the airport in advanced to prevent that chaos, consultation with allies, facilitating the SIV Program. Have them go to American military bases around the world and check their documents there, but don't leave them in the sense that we've abandon Afghanistan.
These are tough choices and many hands contributed to this. Many administrations in history all met with unhappy, extremely difficult challenge of Afghanistan.