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Guest Commentator

Juan Cole, Informed Comment

BC Guest Commentator Juan Ricardo Cole (@jricole) is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

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Guest Commentary

No, Biden Ending the Afghanistan War Isn’t a Disaster

By Juan Cole, Informed Comment Guest Commentator

Imagine the destruction wrought on the country by tens of thousands of airstrikes over the years, hitting villages and sometimes even wedding parties. This is the war people like Lindsay Graham want to keep going. There is something pathological about it.

President Biden has announced that he will completely withdraw US troops from Afghanistan around September 1. This move will bring to an end America’s longest war,…

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