Cynthia Schneider
Biography
Brookings Institution
Publications
Afghanistan: A Window onto a Potential Harris-Walz Pivot on Foreign PolicyThe third anniversary of the US pullout from Afghanistan offers an interesting template to consider how US foreign policy might shift under a Harris-Walz administration. President Biden’s approval ratings sank, and never recovered after the catastrophic execution of the withdrawal. Harris supported ending the US military presence in Afghanistan, but would she have clung to the Trump-negotiated deal with the Taliban, ignoring the advice of the US military and the pleas of Afghan women? In her 2019 campaign she spoke about the need to “protect the gains that have been made for Afghan women and others.”