The blood-soaked debacle in Kabul has exposed the Biden Administration as a collection of bunglers headed by a near-incapacitated Commander-in-Chief. In Unherd, Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls out the liberal media for its “canine-like adulation” of Biden. Regrettably for Afghanistan, she notes, the return of a critical press comes too late.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


