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New President, Same Old Forever War
Biden’s airstrike in Syria shows how little is going to change about America’s military entanglements in the Middle East.
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images “Biden deprioritizes the Middle East,” a Politico headline
declared. The president, wrote Natasha Bertrand and Lara Seligman, “is tired of dealing with
the Middle East and, barely a month into his tenure, the region has noticed.”
That was four days ago. On Thursday, in a rite of passage for any American commander in chief, the United States
launched an airstrike in eastern Syria that reportedly killed 22 members of an Iranian-sponsored militia that operates in Iraq. The strike was supposedly “defensive”: retaliation for a rocket attack two weeks earlier against an airport in Erbil, Iraq, which
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