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Merging the War on Terror with Great Power Competition: The Biden Doctrine

Long before President Joe Biden laid waste to a centerpiece of Washington’s Global War on Terror by ending the war in Afghanistan, the-then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2003 haughtily stamped his name on another neoconservative machination and steered the late-Bush administration’s push to lie the country into war with Iraq through … Read more

President Biden’s Afghanistan Announcement: War or Peace?

( Gerben van Es/Ministerie van Defensie )

America’s war in Afghanistan will officially end on Aug. 31, 2021. President Joe Biden delivered the message Thursday in the same room that former President George W. Bush commenced the original War on Terror roughly twenty years ago.  The objectives have been achieved, Biden said, noting the success of America’s mission to capture and bring … Read more