The Afghanistan Withdrawal

<p>The dramatic events in Afghanistan in recent days mark many things. The end of America’s longest war, the end of the post-9/11 era and the return of the Taliban.</p> <br> <p>They also constitute the first and perhaps defining foreign policy crisis for US President Joe Biden.</p> <br> <p> To try to make sense of the US side of the momentous Afghanistan story, the Critic’s US Editor, Oliver Wiseman spoke to Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor of The National Interest, a foreign policy journal, and Luke Thompson, a Republican strategist and advisor.</p> <br> <p>They debate what Biden has got right, what he has got wrong, how the American people will react and where US foreign policy goes next.</p> <br> <p><br> </p> <br> <p>Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod (<a href="http://incompetech.com">incompetech.com</a>) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p> <br> <hr><p> See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>