RE:Nat Gas Drilling Down prices Upthe ARAB nation better not give the aTaliban--free gas and Diesel F0RMER U.S. president Donald Trump may have been an ill-informed ignoramus as commander-in-chief, but President Joe Biden came to office boasting of 50 years in Washington and decades of experience in foreign policy. Yet he not only seized on Trump’s plan to abandon Afghanistan but pushed it ahead against numerous warnings of the dangers involved, all to hit an artificial deadline — Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks that led to the U.S. presence — which will now serve mainly as a reminder that high office doesn’t necessarily bequeath smart thinking on the occupant.
To be fair, Biden and Trump aren’t alone in fashioning this disaster. It’s been in the works at least since the moment three decades ago when the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet empire disintegrated and the U.S. found itself as the world’s lone superpower, with little idea what to do with it. In the ensuing years it has demonstrated again and again how much trouble the U.S. seems to have in understanding the world beyond its own borders. The world is not the United States,