Fully withdrawn from Afghanistan, America has formally concluded its longest ever war. President Joe Biden’s decision to end the costly, fruitless Afghanistan mission reflects pragmatism—and a degree of resolve that Presidents Obama and Trump were seemingly without. Yet, Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal (and the corresponding, lightning-fast Taliban reclamation) has been politically corrosive, a point of bipartisan condemnation. Amongst a chorus of…
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Greg Barker’s new documentary is a guarded retrospective of President Obama’s foreign policy team that leaves much to be desired.