Amid the public storm in America over the fall of Kabul, it is important not to lose sight of other looming crises around the world—some of them potentially much more dangerous than Afghanistan. For if the U.S. political elites were so surprised by the speed of the Afghan state’s collapse, that was largely because the U.S. media stopped paying attention to developments on the ground in Afghanistan once most U.S. forces withdrew and Americans stopped dying there in large numbers.