John D.S. Allen: “First, sign the bilateral security agreement and, in so doing, embrace Afghanistan's desire for a long-term security…”

The knockout blow in insurgency is not delivered by the military. The knockout blow is delivered by the development of credible governance and economic opportunity.

I agree with getting the big fish and everything, but not when people are dying while we’re doing these investigations.

I support the vaccine mandate. I wrote about this in The Washington Post last month. We hit the limit of the voluntary approach. We’ve tried the hand-holding, we’ve tried cajoling, we’ve tried the beer and the lotteries. It’s not working…

There's no clear front runner for the papacy. The last thing these 115 cardinals who are going to cast votes want is to go into the Sistine chapel and become deadlocked and have to stay there for three or four days.