Except for a brief interlude in the 1820s, partisanship has been a regular feature of American political life since George Washington’s time. Sometimes, as…
Author: Andrew E. Busch, RCP
Consequences of Failure: The Politics of Saigon and Kabul
The abrupt U.S. defeat in the Afghan war has invited parallels with the fall of Saigon in 1975. That event, too, included televised images of panicked crowds desperately seeking to flee the country, victorious tyrants luxuriating in the presidential p…