Lessons of Freedom From 20 Years of War Against Jihadism | RealClearPolitics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Notwithstanding genuine accomplishments in the two countries, Iraq's Shiite-led government leans toward Iran, the world's leading state-sponsor of terror and the United States' primary adversary in the region, while a better trained and equipped Taliban now control more of Afghanistan than on 9/11.
46% : Meanwhile, though the Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan might trigger "a surge of regional instability," Zhou Bo, a senior colonel in the People's Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020, boasted in the New York Times that China "is ready to step into the void left by the hasty U.S. retreat to seize a golden opportunity," including Chinese Belt and Road Initiative construction projects in Afghanistan and mining of the abundant rare-earth mineral deposits there.
34% : In mid-August, owing to shoddy planning and execution, the Biden administration's frenetic troop withdrawal paved the way to the Taliban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan.

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