Leaving Afghanistan: Better Late Than Never
April 26, 2021 © Photo: Flickr/1st Battalion 4th Infantry Regim The waste of life and treasure might finally be coming to an end, but we’ve learned nothing from it. By Peter VAN BUREN President Biden announced he will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That will end 20 years of a war that has killed some 2,300 Americans, an unknown number of Afghans, and cost trillions of dollars to accomplish nothing. Biden speaks more plainly about failure than any previous president. We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping t...