Few are pointing out the undeniable truth about the disaster in Afghanistan: whatever Biden's or Trump's proximate blame for it, or Obama's hand in it earlier on, the real author of the greatest American foreign policy disaster since Vietnam (arguably worse) is George W. Bush.
Bush could have set a much more limited mission for American military power: get Bin Laden, exterminate al Qaeda. Instead it turned to nation-building with no real understanding of the geopolitics of the region.
And then he turned to Iraq, compounding the historic error.
And then he turned to Iraq, compounding the historic error.
U.S. death toll is not the proper way to measure the scale of this disaster. Foreign policy decisions, choices to go to war & occupy exist *in a specific place in time*. 1973 was not 2001 and esp. not 2021. The trajectory looks like irreversible decline.
https://twitter.com/hamill3030/status/1426803838875586560
By the way, I'll leave you on a cheerful note w/an observation from a friend of mine: expect China to go to war with Taiwan, seeing American weakness and lack of resolve to uphold its international security commitments when the rubber meets the road, very very soon. Very soon.
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