Guest columnist Keith Peterson shares lessons to be learned from America's longest war.
Just before the Easter weekend, the Biden administration provided a 12-page report on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, which ended America's longest war.
Both Presidents Trump and Biden had the same goal -- to withdraw from Afghanistan, but for different reasons. Trump's foreign policy was always isolationist and transactional. And he saw no value in the idea of giving Afghans a chance to create a democratic future. by signing up you agree to our terms of service The Trump administration's deal with the Taliban, which lacked a de-escalatory ladder -- we do this and you do that -- as well as its withdrawal of U.S. forces and its failure to accelerate the process for getting Afghans who had worked for the Americans out of the country -- all meant that the situation was ripe for chaos.
The corruption and the incompetence of successive Afghan governments did not help, and neither did some 70,000 civilian casualties.
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