MILKING THE SOFT POWER DIVIDEND OF THIS MOMENT: American Defeat in Afghanistan Exposes the ‘Smart Power’ Mirage. “Every four years, the message is the same: Trust us, we’re the ones who know what we’re doing. And yet, the oddest thing happens — the Democratic foreign-policy establishment gets in power, and a short while later, so many things go wrong.”
The timing of the fall of Afghanistan is pretty spectacular as well, as Stephen Miller noted yesterday:
