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On Thursday, April 15, the
New York Times posted an article headed, How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan, just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’ as indicating the US war in Afghanistan might actually come to an end on September 11, 2021, almost 20 years after it started.
We saw this bait and switch tactic before in President Biden’s earlier announcement about ending US support for the long, miserable war in Yemen. In his first major foreign policy address, on February 4, President Biden announced
Biden’s Drone Wars Activists Brian Terrell and Ghulam Hussein Ahmadi at the Border Free Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Graffiti by Kabul Knight (Image by Hakim)
By Brian Terrell
On Thursday, April 15, the
New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, “Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’” as indicating the U.S. war in Afghanistan might actually come to an end on September 11, 2021, almost 20 years after it started.
We saw this bait and switch tactic before in President Biden’s earlier announcement about ending U.S support for the long, miserable war in Yemen. In his first major foreign policy address, on February 4, President Biden announced “we are ending all American support for offensive opera
On Thursday, April 15, the
New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, “Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’” as indicating the U.S. war in Afghanistan might actually come to an end on September 11, 2021, almost 20 years after it started.
We saw this bait and switch tactic before in President Biden’s earlier announcement about ending U.S support for the long, miserable war in Yemen. In his first major foreign policy address, on February 4, President Biden announced “we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen,” the war waged by Saudi Arabia and its allies since 2015, the war he called “a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” Biden declared “This war has to end.”
America’s longest-ever war is given an end date, slavery reparations move forward in the House, protests for racial justice are reignited, and California’s economy continues to reopen in a major way,
U.S. soldiers from Viper Company (Bravo), 1-26 Infantry are seen during sunset as they conduct a patrol at Combat Outpost Sabari in Khost province in the east of Afghanistan on June 21, 2011. (Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images)
Those of us of the right age remember with perfect clarity the weather on September 11, 2001, a dazzlingly beautiful day. The unblemished blue sky over southern New England stretched for 200 miles to the southwest, serving as a backdrop to the micro-apocalypse in Manhattan that was broadcast directly into my geometry classroom.
At 14, I was just a couple of weeks into my freshman year of high school. My peers and I were awash in the vagaries of adolescence ill-equipped to discuss moments of historical gravity. We mostly stood in silence waiting for the bus that day.