[T]he Afghanistan withdrawal was a goal shared by Trump and Biden, just as the responsibility for the faults of the U.S. in the Afghanistan war is shared by Democrats and Republicans.
If the United States has returned to multilateralism [...] it no longer has any desire to play the role of police officer over the four corners of the world.
In the long run, it is better for the U.S. to invest its money on its people and infrastructure, than to spend it pretending to pacify unpacifiable tribes.
Within half a year of being in office, Biden has already turned things around with the European Union, mended fences between the two continents, and strengthened the democratic front, to all of which the C.C.P. is at wit’s end.