Our failures in Iraq and Afghanistan have revealed the neocon idea as a delusional millenarian fantasy
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It’s hard to imagine a more searing indictment of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal than the news this week that an Afghan citizen who was admitted to the United States less than two weeks after U.S. troops pulled out has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on Election Day on behalf of ISIS.
But it’s not just an indictment of Biden and Harris. It’s also an indictment of the entire neocon worldview that gave us the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were the direct result of the dangerous and delusional idea that everyone everywhere in the world is fit for liberty and self-government. After two decades, tens of thousands of American lives lost, and trillions of dollars spent, we’re still dealing with the fallout from the unwinnable Global War on Terror and the insane ideas that launched it. ---More...
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