If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, click here to subscribe. Per HuffPost :. As the United States potentially abandons tens of thousands of Afghans who helped two decades of military and diplomatic efforts there to the mercies of the Taliban, a single person may deserve more credit than any other: top Trump White House aide and immigration foe Stephen Miller. Miller became a top adviser to candidate Trump in , then moved to the White House when Trump took office in Recently, he has claimed that the U.
They get free health care. They get free education. They get free housing. They get free food. Which conservatives demanding Biden resign conveniently fail to remember, and which reporter Scott Dworkin has helpfully recalled :. Their Doha Agreement with the Taliban violated the most basic principles of self-government for the Afghan people. There was no way to enforce it or make sure the Taliban kept its word. There was no denunciation of al-Qaeda terrorists.
She was not alone. McMaster, told journalist Bari Weiss. We defeated ourselves. View on Twitter. Evictions are increasing as judges grow tired of the national moratorium Washington Post. Who asked for this? USA Today. Join Vanity Fair to receive full access to VF.
The criminally indicted CFO has one very big reason to cooperate against the ex-president. Bergen angrily demolishes the lies that underpinned US policy under the Bush administration and for which few, if any, have ever been held accountable. Having spoken to many of the former CIA officials involved in compiling successive intelligence in and early that found no link between Bin Laden and Iraq, Bergen is well placed to nail that particular falsehood.
But he also shows other myths for what they are. No, the Pakistanis did not shelter the al-Qaida leader for a decade for their own dastardly purposes. Though all of this has been said before, it is still important to say it all again and refute dangerous, ideological fantasy with solid research and reporting.
At university, he was influenced by Egyptian Islamists from a radical fringe of the Muslim Brotherhood organisation, for example. Is there one single crucial factor or a particular moment when Bin Laden went bad? Of course not. He killed several thousand people and sparked conflicts that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands more but as the family details of squabbles and fears and hopes show, he was an ordinary man.
The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden review — how the son of a brickie became the leader of al-Qaida. Global ambitions: Bin Laden in Afghanistan in Photograph: AP. Reuse this content.
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