Reflecting on America’s Role in Afghanistan
5 min readSep 2, 2021
If nothing else, 20 years in Afghanistan might have dampened U.S. appetites for war and nation-building.
News broadcasts and social media feeds have been inundated with images, videos, and reports about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, especially over the past week. The “forgotten war” has made a sudden and shocking reappearance in the psyche of the American public.