The Guardian View on the Taliban’s Advance: Not an American Debacle but Afghans’ Tragedy

A few burning cars and garbage cans aside, the real act of violence begins with criminalizing and vilifying entire groups of the population.

It's about ... intercultural relationship, not about romanticizing nationalism.

[A] battle to the death is in neither side’s interest.

[C]ivil war-like conditions are prevailing in America’s second-largest metropolis.

Unless the country ... takes a resolute stand against Trump now, there may not be another democratically elected president in three and a half years.

[P]eople did not expect this when they voted for Trump even though he repeatedly promised he would do so.

Despite appearances, these are not purely trade talks.

[T]he persistence of Trump’s authoritarian conduct in his many actions as head of state ... should raise all the red flags.