Jeffrey Cimmino is a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the center’s deputy director.
The administration’s cautious approach is only encouraging more aggression.
The president has been relatively tough on China but has been unwilling to adequately confront Russia, Iran, and international terrorism.
It might not be easy, but it’s better than a full-scale war.
The fall of Kabul is a blow not just to global democracy, but to the U.S.'s ongoing foreign policy aims as well.