![]() ![]() Rory Stewart, a former government minister under Prime Minister Theresa May, claims the withdrawal from Afghanistan is ‘deeply disturbing’ and asks, without irony, ‘whether the United States can claim much moral authority internationally.’ Former U.S. may soon reassert itself somewhere else to show the world that it still has muscle’ (because showing muscle should be any country’s chief foreign policy objective). Withdrawal from Afghanistan the End of the American Empire?’ Staff writer Jon Lee Anderson frets that, ‘it feels as if the American era isn’t quite over, but it isn’t what it once was, either,’ and wonders whether ‘the U.S. ![]() This fear is on full display in a New Yorker piece published on September 1, 2021, anxiously entitled, ‘Is the U.S. What underlies these reactions is a deeper concern over what this means for the future of the American Empire, assuming it has one. Twenty disastrous years, it seems, were not enough. Rather, they are mourning the fact that the U.S. Not because of the tens of thousands of lives lost or trillions of dollars wasted that could have been put towards education, healthcare, housing, or infrastructure. ![]() The United States and British establishments are in mourning over Afghanistan. ![]()
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