BEHIND THE LINES: The perception that the US is drawing down in the region is leading to cracks and fissures in the pro-Western camp.
Evacuee children wait for a flight at Kabul’s airport in August amid the backdrop of the perception that the US’s Afghanistan withdrawal is having an impact across the Middle East.(photo credit: 1ST LT. MARK ANDRIES/US MARINE CORPS VIA REUTERS)ByJONATHAN SPYER
