Laurel Miller

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia

In The News

14 Aug 2021
What we’re seeing is a tsunami of individual decisions to abandon the Afghan government, and all of those individual decisions have added up to a collapse. Washington Post

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia
9 Aug 2021
The Taliban [in Afghanistan], I think, would prefer to have legitimacy and financial assistance from the international community. But their number one preference is gaini... AFP

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia
29 Jul 2021
[President Biden] judged that, although undesirable, that deterioration of conditions in Afghanistan is tolerable for U.S. national security interests. The Independent

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia
26 Jul 2021
There was this idea that if you put a lot of resources into [Afghanistan] and a lot of willpower very quickly, that you can make what we otherwise know are long-term gene... NPR

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia
16 Apr 2021
The counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan had for years now become one of prevention, not one of identifying an imminent threat that must be countered. The Wall Street Journal

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia
14 Apr 2021
It's a tragedy that the U.S. didn't get serious about trying to stitch together a peace process in Afghanistan much earlier, before the thread ran out. BBC News

Laurel Miller

Former Program Director, Asia

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