Fawaz A. Gerges
Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, is author of the newly revised ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Aug 25, 2021
By hastily withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden has made a grave mistake, or so many argue. US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, has called the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country an “even worse sequel to the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975.” That sequel, top US generals, conservatives, and even some liberals predict, will be characterized by the resurgence of transnational terrorism.