Is Biden Reenlisting in the Forever Wars?
Six weeks in, Joe Biden seems in danger of being drawn back indefinitely into the forever wars of the Middle East. Looking at our 20 years of military intervention in the Middle East, since Osama bin Laden drew us in by bringing down the twin towers and hitting the Pentagon, what is on the asset side of our balance sheet? And China, which stayed out of all these wars we started — or into which we plunged — has prospered in these 20 years as few other nations in modern history.