Source: Washington Post
by Connor Echols
“When the Biden administration withdrew U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021, many people saw a watershed moment. After two decades of war, American leaders had finally concluded that there was no hope of transforming the Greater Middle East using military force. ‘We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,’ President Joe Biden said. ‘And it’s the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country.’ This humility proved short lived. Over the past year, the United States has found itself drawn into a nation-building fervor once more, this time of a more vicarious sort.” (11/12/24)