The Afghan disaster: Will America ever learn?


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The furor over the release of the summary of an investigation into the 2021 evacuation from Kabul airport was fully justified. The evacuation was a disaster. But while President Biden is bearing the brunt of the blame, he shares responsibility for the Afghan debacle with three other presidents: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Reciting the history does not mean the U.S. will learn from it. Aside from the brief Desert Storm campaign, which was not a full-fledged war, the last U.S. military victory was World War II. When George W. Bush initially unleashed the CIA and U.S....