Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute: The United States Has Declared Defeat in Two More Wars
President Biden announced last week that he planned to remove all combat troops from Afghanistan by September, which he says will mark the end of what is now a twenty-year war in the central Asian country.
A week earlier, the US and Iraq reaffirmed a deal to withdraw “any remaining combat forces” from Iraq, and to further wind down the US involvement there, which dates back to the 2003 invasion.
In both cases, of course, the stated plans to end military intervention have been framed in polite language designed to make it look like the US is leaving on its own terms—and also to allow the US regime some level of plausibility when it claims “mission accomplished.”
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WNU Editor: It is too early to say that the U.S. is leaving Iraq and Afghanistan. The final U.S. departure from Iraq has yet to be determined, and I expect the Afghan conflict will now be shifting toward a war fought by US-employed contractors.
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