Afghanistan collapse a failure of execution, not strategy

 

Afghanistan collapse a failure of execution, not strategy

 

The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan may be the first major foreign policy crisis of the Biden administration, writes Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer this week, but the decision to withdraw is not to blame. "What was surprising -- and frankly shocking, given the expertise and experience of the national security and foreign policy team Biden has assembled -- was the sheer incompetence of the execution," Bremmer argues, outlining four main failures.
 
Other contributors on Afghanistan this week included former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO James Stavridis, who believes that China is clearly positioning itself to be a major international partner to the Taliban, former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, who is of the view that loose talk about President Biden's "Saigon moment" is premature, and Australian lawmaker Dave Sharma, who urged the Biden administration to change course.