You don’t need to be a foreign policy expert to take one look at the heartbreaking developments in Afghanistan and feel an all-consuming cold shudder of fear.

A massive, heartbreaking humanitarian crisis is unfolding, and none of us have forgotten how horrifically brutal the 1996-2001 Taliban regime was.

Women and girls were denied education, denied employment, forced to wear the burqa, even forbidden from leaving home without a male guardian.