“We really kind of have to see which inclinations – the inclination to lower our military profile as opposed to the inclination to continue the forever wars – end up carrying the day with the president,” said Andrew Bacheivch, president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank that advocates for less military intervention.
“The obvious answer is it’s too soon to tell,” Dr Bacheivch told
The National. “The most important thing he has done is declaring that the Afghanistan war will end by September 11. It’s important in and of itself because that is America’s longest-ever war and it has failed.”