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Annie Pforzheimer is former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Afghanistan and Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and a current member of the steering committee of Alliance for Support of the Afghan People.
Missing the bigger implications of US withdrawal from Afghanistan
As the United States exits from Afghanistan, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it is important to reflect on the broader and longer-term reverberations of that withdrawal. In examining the withdrawal, peace process, and the recent dynamic of militia building and Taliban control, it’s becoming clear that a different transnational threat to U.S. interests is emerging.
