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Column: Assessing Afghanistan, three years after U.S. withdrawal

U.S. soldiers board a U.S. Air Force aircraft at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Rockets were fired at Kabul's airport on Aug. 30, where U.S. troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic State group attacks. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
U.S. soldiers board a U.S. Air Force aircraft at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Rockets were fired at Kabul’s airport on Aug. 30, where U.S. troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic State group attacks. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
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Three years since a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the most dire predictions about its ripple effects did not come to pass, Defense Priorities' Daniel R. DePetris writes in an Los Angeles Times column.

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