America’s Lessons Not Learned In Asia.

Whether the deci­sion to pull out of Afghanistan by President Joe Biden was the cor­rect one, par­tic­u­lar­ly when we see the images com­ing out of that coun­try, I will leave it up to the experts. This deci­sion, how­ev­er, will be debat­ed pure­ly from a polit­i­cal stand­point, with Republicans for­get­ting that Trump intend­ed to pull troops out as well.
On Monday, Biden told the nation, he stands square­ly behind his deci­sion to pull troops from Afghanistan even as he admit­ted in his speech that the coun­try’s fall hap­pened faster than he anticipated.

Biden argued that after two decades in that coun­try and over a tril­lion dol­lars spent in that coun­try: train­ing their mil­i­tary, cre­at­ing an air force, equip­ping that air force, and even pay­ing the salaries of the Afghan mil­i­tary — a force he said rivals NATO part­ners in size. America, he said, could not give them the will to fight for their coun­try. That is up to them.
I concur!!!

America may have been jus­ti­fied in going into Afghanistan after September 11^th, 2001; what hap­pened after­ward will for­ev­er be debat­ed for cen­turies long after we are gone.
The jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for going inside was the pol­i­cy of George Bush, Dick Chaney, Donald Rumsfeld admin­is­tra­tion. Fed by neo-cons, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl guid­ed America’s deci­sions in Afghanistan and its mis­guid­ed deci­sion to enter a sov­er­eign Iraq under the lie that Saddam Hussien, that nation’s pres­i­dent had weapons of mass destruc­tion. Therefore America, as the world’s de fac­to police, was jus­ti­fied in going in to take them away from him.

They nev­er both­ered telling the nation at the time. Today, the US con­cedes that George Bush’s father, Herbert Walker Bush, US pres­i­dent #41, allowed Saddam Hussien to acquire those bio­log­i­cal weapons because the cal­cu­lus was that Iran was a more sig­nif­i­cant threat. In their minds, Saddam offered a coun­ter­bal­ance to the Islamic régime in Iran that had over­thrown the Shah and tak­en American hostages dur­ing the Carter presidency.
The authors wrote in a 2002 arti­cle writ­ten by Christopher Dickey and Evan Thomas, which now forms part of the Congress’ per­ma­nent record.

It is hard to believe that, during most of the 1980s, 
     America knowingly permitted the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission 
     to import bacterial cultures that might be used to build 
     biological weapons. But it happened.

America's past stumbles, while embarrassing, are not an 
     argument for inaction in the future. Saddam probably is the 
     "grave and gathering danger" described by President Bush in 
     his speech to the United Nations last week. It may also be 
     true that "whoever replaces Saddam is not going to be 
     worse," as a senior administration official put it to 
     Newsweek. But the story of how America helped create a 
     Frankenstein monster it now wishes to strangle is sobering. 
     It illustrates the power of wishful thinking, as well as the 
     iron law of unintended consequences.

The United States learned noth­ing from its incur­sion in South Asia, and as we recall the rout in Saigon, it seems that there is a sense of déjà vu.