Ahmad S Bakhshi

How Washington’s “warlord” myth helped bring back the Taliban

On 27 November, just blocks from the White House, an Afghan evacuee named Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly opened fire on two U.S. National Guard soldiers on duty.  One of them, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, has since died; her colleague, Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remains in critical condition.  Lakanwal had previously worked with a U.S.-backed paramilitary unit and later entered the United…