The carnival of recrimination that erupted since the collapse of the Afghan government serves mainly to cover the tracks of years of US mistakes and set the stage for future misguided interventions. Read Barry Posen's commentary published here in the National Interest.
The US-led aerial evacuation of Western officials, citizens, and local partners from Kabul formed the denouement of a poorly conceived, incompetently managed, and historically futile project to turn Afghanistan into a self-sufficient, liberal, and unified country. Despite the fundamental flaws in US policy over the last twenty years, newspapers, journals, talk shows, websites, and now US congressional hearings have brimmed with efforts to point the finger of failure in Afghanistan at one man and his closest advisors: President Joe Biden. Read the full article here.
Barry Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and director emeritus of the MIT Security Studies Program.
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