By Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn, a professor of history and law at Yale University, is the author of “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.”
August 17, 2021 at 1:27 p.m. EDT
The hue and cry surrounding the collapse of the Afghan government and the fall of Kabul — the debate about who is to blame and whether President Biden erred in ending military support (and in how he did so) — should not distract from two important truths. The Afghan war, at least the one in which American troops on the ground were central to the outcome, was over long ago. And America’s ever-expanding global war on terrorism is continuing, in principle and practice.
Another good one to remember https://archive.is/iIkwt
THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS
A secret history of the war
AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it, an exclusive Post investigation found.
By Craig Whitlock Dec. 9, 2019