I don’t think this specifically has anything to do with American
Imperialism. Even if you think the invasion was imperialistic to begin with (I really don’t; I think that of Iraq), there’s no disagreement that it was time to leave. I can’t prove a different approach without prioritizing political theater would have made it better. But we can say this: the Biden admin violated the commitment to leave in the spring under the Trump unilateral surrender. There really were no repercussions from that beyond a little screaming. We know that people who favored exiting warned of the rush, and they turned out to be right.
So my point isn’t that a different approach is guaranteed to have gone better. It’s that the be all and end all should never have been a victorious 9/11 ceremony. Which of course never did come to pass anyway.
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Posted: 01/23/2022 at 3:10PM