New Delhi: To do more troops, or cut? Is the Afghan theater as a priority, or Iraq? Can the Taliban be trusted, and deserve dialogue? Is the ISIS threat really eliminated in Syria and Iraq? Two decades and four presidents later, a retrospection reveals inconsistencies, contradictions, and confusion in the US response to such questions about ‘war against terror.’ US presidents often take a walk, contrary to their predecessors about policy issues, and reversing their own decisions about how distant American war will be carried out.
Bushpresident Bush has a large bipartisan support when he sent US troops to Afghanistan after a 9/11 terrorist attack.
The world, still fresh from a jolt, most of the rally behind.
However, the priority shifted only two years into the operation.
He opened the Iraqi front, with work in Afghanistan far from above.
And then, it might be too early, he stated that it ended the ‘main battle operation’ in both countries, when the events that were followed would show.
Obamabarack Obama inherited the Afghan and Iraq war when he served in 2008.
He did not want to start a third in Syria when ISIS swept wide areas in the country, and also Iraq.
He moved from the policy of George W Bush to record the repressive regime as a ‘crime axis’ to engage with them, directly or indirectly.
Obama was reluctant to direct military action in Syria, despite the extensive understanding in Washington which redeemed ISIS related to the Assad regime deposition.
Russian and Iranian involvement in this region may win him to find a negotiated political solution.
TrumPrump was interested in ending American involvement in the war cinema thousands of miles away, and mostly set the ball rolling too.
But not before he departed from Obama’s hands-off approach in Syria.
The US fired cruise missiles to Syria because of the suspicion of the Assad regime using chemical weapons at opposition.
His decisions are often asked by top people in his government – in some cases, even causing them to stop.
In Afghanistan too, the agreement with the Taliban, but wrote a script that Joe Biden would follow after entering the White House in January 2021.
Bidenjoe Biden had his duty cut – making a withdrawal of Afghanistan as smooth as possible, and prevented.
At least delay the Taliban takeover.
Nothing happened in the end.
Intelligence assessment of defects about the situation on the ground improved many Biden plans.
Biden pushed Trump’s turnout to withdraw 1 May about four months, until September 11.
But then advanced to August 31.
The last few days and evacuations rushed to bring back memories of Saigon’s 1975 evacuation.