Should America Have Stayed in Afghanistan?
After withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban has defeated Afghan forces and taken over the country. Does this prove that the US should have kept its military presence in the region? Or did Biden make the right move? More at NPR.
The American departure may be a moral catastrophe, then, but it is not a strategic failure. The occupation failed years ago.
…so what? The unpleasant optics justify another 20 years of “nation-building” in that godforsaken place?
The central problem behind the sudden collapse of the Afghan government isn’t that the United States withdrew too soon or too hastily, but that it waited too long.