/politics/the-united-states-must-reclaim-afghanistan-to-protect-its-interests/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /politics/the-united-states-must-reclaim-afghanistan-to-protect-its-interests/#comment-40634 Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:42:04 +0000 /?p=156842#comment-40634 Am I wrong in thinking the fifth point contradicts and even cancels the other four? I also find the suggestion that the “US should spearhead a United Nations-backed peace process, rooted in global interests and the harsh realities on the ground” to be surreal in the age of Biden and Trump, whose reluctance to defer to any “global interests” seems to me patent. Their wont has consistently been to deny the “harsh realities on the ground” and to hide behind either US exceptionalism (Biden) or America First (Trump), two ideologies incompatible with the evolution of the world (i.e. especially the global South).

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