It moreover sounds similar to the same justification that were used in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. . ..…

The United States suffered humiliating setbacks in both Afghanistan and Iraq. ... He imitated Bush’s surge in Iraq with one of his own in Afghanistan, which has been even less successful, neither defeating the Taliban nor reconstructing the country. ..…

Those scholars still fighting the establishment over the folly of Iraq War should take note of the growing belief among many progressives and conservatives that United States should be engaged fewer military interventions in the world given Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.. It's fairly easy..…

Significantly, the racial underpinnings of the War on Terror sustain not just domestic repression but foreign abuses—the war’s vast death toll in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere could not be sustained without the dehumanization of its Muslim victims. .....…

If you include supplemental spending for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s close to a trillion dollars a year. . ... We did not go into Vietnam to bring democracy; we did not invade Panama to stop the drug trade; we did not invade Afghanistan and Iraq to stop terrorism...…