Ten years ago, in 2003, President George W. Bush argued in a notorious speech that “Saddam Hussein had given the Iraqi people nothing but war and misery and torture. The lives of the Iraqi people,” ...

When plunging into war, hope generally triumphs over experience. The past—the quiet statistical tabulation of what happened when this was tried before—tends to be ignored in the heat of angry oratory ...

Editor’s note: In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover of Kabul. We asked a variety of experts the following ...

Every July 1 to 7 the Philippines observes National Culture Consciousness Week, established through Proclamation No. 1146 in 1973. More than 50 years later, the observance invites a timely question: ...

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Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite ...

President Biden’s shoddy withdrawal from Afghanistan has irrevocably sullied America’s reputation. Even opponents of continued occupation have been horrified at the indefensible manner in which this ...

The Canadian government is accelerating investments in energy infrastructure, critical minerals, mining projects, and new trade corridors to accelerate growth amid ongoing tariff concerns. This nation ...