One year on, America is supposedly moving on from Afghanistan

An Associated Press (AP) story from Washington recently reported that the CIA is moving on from Afghanistan.

This was in the context of fighting terrorism. The report was gleaned from a closed-door meeting of CIA counterterrorism leads, which was addressed by the agency’s number 2, David Cohen. The CIA, Mr Cohen indicated, would be increasingly shifting its money and resources to focusing on China because there was growing alarm about “China’s growing political and economic ambitions”, in AP’s words. The report added that “China has tried to influence foreign elections, mounted campaigns of cyber and corporate espionage, and detained millions of minority Uyghurs in camps. Some experts also think Beijing will in coming years try to seize the self-ruled democratic island of Taiwan by force.” Accordingly, US intelligence officials feel the need for more insights on China, the report said.

That sounds about right but one has to question the idea that American spooks will take their eye off …