Our interventionist policies in Afghanistan and Iraq were aimed at making other nations—with far different cultures, histories, and political traditions—into liberal democracies mirroring ours. ..…

In that single, in other words, the suicide count was nearly  times greater than the number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2001 and 2018.. ..…

The White House installed a special secure phone line to Biden’s home, and he and three other members of Congress met privately with Bush in October 2001 to come up with a positive public relations message for the war in Afghanistan. . Biden’s stance on Iraq soon began to change, too. In..…

The precedent extended to conflicts Vietnam, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. ..…

The US reneged on the JPOAC, sent Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to the World Court and eventual death (although his compromises allowed the Dayton Accords that ended the Yugoslavian conflict), directly assisted NATO in the overthrow of subdued Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi, pulverized Iraq..…

The terror wars may all still be raging, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Mali, but the government’s main attention has been turned back toward great power competition with Russia and China. . ... Poor SOCOM and JSOC, they’re left with only Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,..…