Has The U.S. Given Up On Fighting 'Forever Wars'?

No longer Washington's security priority: members of an anti-Taliban militia fighting with Taliban insurgents in Helmand province WAKIL KOHSAR AFP  

France 24: With Afghan pullout, US ditches 'forever wars' 

Joe Biden's pullout from Afghanistan has stunned with its speed, but Washington already decided four years ago that it was fed up with “forever wars” and turned its attention to traditional great power competition with China and Russia. 

Fighting stateless terror groups like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State consumed the US security establishment, and trillions of dollars, since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Biden predecessor Donald Trump came to office in 2017 promising to quit Afghanistan, calling the war there a "mess" and a "waste." 

The conflicts there and in Iraq had come to be characterized by unending troop deployments, persistent levels of violence, and no ability to conclusively defeat the enemy.  

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WNU Editor: It has given up fighting directly in these wars. What it has not given is providing support to their favorite side in these "forever wars".

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