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From the right: Biden Needs To Show Strength

President Bidens withdrawal from Afghanistan has been compared to our 1975 Vietnam withdrawal, but its more like Beirut, 1983, when terrorists killed 241 US service members and President Ronald Reagan cut and run, emboldening Osama bin Laden, contends Marc Thiessen at The Washington Post. The 9/11 mastermind predicted wed retreat from Afghanistan, too, and now Bidens fulfilling bin Ladens prophecy. Instead, he should show strength, tell the Taliban theyre responsible for Thursdays attack and thus were not leaving on Aug. 31 but only when every American and our allies are out. He should also say were establishing our own secure perimeter around the airport and reclaiming the Bagram air base. When the United States runs after a terrorist attack, the result is not safety and security, it is even more terrorism.

Woke watch: Theyve Got Rocks in Their Heads

The University of Wisconsins decision to remove a campus boulder because of what some writer said one day during the Coolidge administration (using the N-word to describe the rock) infuriates The New York Times John McWhorter. The students who demanded the move are fashioning their take on the rock as a kind of sophistication or higher awareness. But what they are really demanding is that we all dumb ourselves down. They essentially demanded that an irrational, prescientific kind of fear that a person can be meaningfully injured by the dead be accepted as insight, implying that the rocks denotation of racism is akin to a Confederate statues denotation of the same. This is Kabuki as civil rights its fake, its self-involved, and it helps no one.

Conservative: Liberalism Failed in Afghanistan

Twenty years after 9/11, the War on Terror has come full circle, writes Daniel McCarthy at Spectator World. Everyone expected the Taliban to surge back to power as soon as American forces left Afghanistan. Instead, the surge began while Americas embassy in Kabul was still open. Simply put: Terrorism won, nation-building lost. The Washington foreign-policy community believed the absence of liberalism and democracy was the root cause of terrorism, and its cure was therefore the promotion of liberal democracy through regime-change and nation-building. Yet liberalism cannot bind people together in conditions of profound insecurity, as religion and tribalism do. Nor does liberalism provide such compelling reasons to kill or die. A man will die for heaven or kill for his brother. No man will die for liberalism.

Natl-security beat: Sack Austin and Milley

After Kabul fell, neither Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin nor Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley appeared publicly for three days to explain what happened or why we appeared so ill-prepared to extract our citizens, sighs Ray McCoy at American Greatness. When they did appear, Austin claimed he didnt have the capability to collect large numbers of people. And this was supposed to be the team that returned competence to Washington, the experts that Joe Biden said he would trust. The president now has a chance to do some good by sacking Milley and Austin, as well as the mediocrities running his national security policy. If everyone from Tony Blair to Rand Paul is trashing this performance, we might as well start from scratch.

Libertarian: SCOTUS Soundly Slaps Eviction Ban

By 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lack the authority to promulgate and extend the eviction moratorium, Elizabeth Nolan Brown cheers at Reason. The ruling notes that the downstream connection between eviction and the interstate spread of disease is markedly different from the direct targeting of disease that characterizes the measures identified in the Public Health Service Act. This, she notes, is also an important affirmation that private property rights still exist in this country and a good stand for the separation of powers since Congress can still pass a law extending the eviction moratorium but its unconstitutional for the executive branch to unilaterally make this decision.

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