LEAVING AFGHANISTAN

THIS SUMMER, THE U.S. government finally set an official end date for America’s two-decade military misadventure in Afghanistan. After announcing a drawdown of the U.S. troop presence there in April, President Joe Biden declared at a July 8 press briefing that the U.S. “military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31.”

Fulfilling a campaign promise, Biden admitted what the U.S. should have admitted more than a decade