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We will never see true democracy or Western civilization in the Muslim Middle East, and we should not be naïve enough to waste our money and our blood on trying to push it. Iraq and Afghanistan are abject lessons in this.
The U.S. military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan have been defining chapters in contemporary history, marked by intricate challenges and shifting goals.
The Biden 2024 candidate has a disadvantage that the Biden 2020 candidate didn’t have – a record of executive leadership.
Having learned nothing from Martin Luther King Jr., Joe Biden commemorated MLK day by threatening his fellow citizens.
The mastermind behind the 911 attacks was dead, avenging the horrific loss of 2,977 American lives lost on 911. That would be the cue for the US to pull up tent pegs in Afghanistan. Or was it? $3 Trillion? Wait? When did we know about these rare-earths?
President Joe Biden may have laughed just a little too hard at comedian Trevor Noah’s inflation joke at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. “Ever since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up,” joked the “Comedy Central” host, “Gas is up, rent is up, food is up! Everything!” Is an …
As experience in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq show, if we do not do a rigorous assessment before an intervention and do not continue to do it throughout the intervention, a nation can bleed itself badly. Perhaps the key screening questions are will the people support the intervention and will they fight?