When President Joe Biden announced last month he would pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of August, he declared 'speed is safety.'
The president used his maiden trip abroad to Europe in June to trumpet the message "America is back" after four years of President Donald Trump's isolationist foreign policy, cementing partnerships with Western allies as part of a broader strategy to blunt the rise of China.Though European allies support the rapid withdrawal, there may be some cost to U.S. standing, said Gerald Feierstein, senior vice president at the Middle East Institute and a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen.
Though foreign allies understand the politics of Afghanistan and the shift in America's interests, the withdrawal's chaotic unfolding may benefit Russia and China – which Biden has labeled the biggest foreign policy threats facing the United States. As a senator in 2001, Biden voted in favor of the authorization for the use of military force that triggered the war in Afghanistan after 9/11, but he was one of the most vocal critics of further escalation as vice president during the Obama administration and opposed the decision to bolster troops there in 2009.
“This president had two decisions to make, and those are the decisions that all his predecessors had to make: Do you stay in Afghanistan forever? Or do you cut your losses and move on to what is something more strategic and vital to the United States?” said Weinstein, a professor in Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies.
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