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    America Isn’t Exceptional Anymore

    Oct 19, 2021 5 minutes
    By Mina Al-Oraibi

    As the last U.S. soldier pulled out of Afghanistan in the dead of night on Aug. 30 and the Taliban walked into Hamid Karzai International Airport, many in the Arab world were looking on and wondering if similar scenes would one day be seen at Baghdad International Airport or elsewhere in the region.

    Since then-U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama ran on a platform of “ending the war in Iraq” in 2008, popular domestic support for ending overseas military engagement has been a driving force for U.S. politicians. Although Obama was able to declare an end to the Iraq War in 2011 as president, he also ordered a U.S. military intervention, named Operation Inherent Resolve, to defeat the Islamic State there in 2014.

    It appears that resolve is now lacking.

    Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his successor, Joe Biden, decided

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