Obama’s Afghanistan Options

The Brotherhood enjoys a wider reach inside the U..S and growing influence among a rapidly expanding Muslim community.

The first cracks are appearing in the MAGA movement, which has long been drunk with power.

Washington now faces choices: proceed with the deal and adjust its conception of alliances in the region or succumb to legislative stagnation and reject or downgrade the deal.

This contradiction between fearing violence while simultaneously rejecting it defines the current American mood.

What perhaps remains unresolved, is how long the American electorate will allow Trump to reduce their country into a paranoia state, an empire of appalling tantrums and ragtag diplomacy.