America’s failures in Afghanistan were thoroughly bipartisan and long in the making, and its retreat widely supported by the public. geraldfseib asks: What does that tell us about ourselves?
Early on during the adventure in Afghanistan, U.S. officials banned negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban leaders, so confident were they that the Taliban Islamists could be vanquished militarily. By last year, U.S. officials themselves, in talks in which the Afghan government was the party excluded.
so ugly that it figures to haunt American foreign policy and the Biden presidency for some time to come., and in the end the retreat from it was widely supported by the public. In retrospect, it appears Americans lost their interest in Afghanistan when their leaders failed to keep showing that the exercise still was connected to its original and narrow purpose, which was to head off the threat of terrorism.
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