TWENTY YEARS SINCE THE EVENTS OF 9/11: WHICH IS WORSE, THE BEGINNING OR THE END?
September 2nd, 2021
Hubris comes in many forms, but surely the rushed exit of American forces from Afghanistan to meet an artificial political deadline of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the USA is a breathtaking example.
Rather than strengthening the agents of reform in Afghanistan, upon which the US and its allies have inefficiently spent trillions of dollars, this helter-skelter exit has undermined them, leaving at the mercy of a resurgent Taliban.
Now, rather than affording President Joe Biden an opportunity to claim the sacrifices of western militaries and ...
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