Has the world seen the last of the major U.S.-mounted invasions? For Poland’s Rzeczpospolita, columnist Marek Magierowski writes that while electoral politics played a role in President Obama’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, the explanation goes much deeper.
For Rzeczpospolita, Marek Magierowski writes in part:
Obama also knows that his country is no longer capable of bearing the financial burden of the war. It costs the taxpayers $10 billion a month to continue waging it. How to explain to voters the need for such spending, when there is no end in sight to the recession?
But what are at play here aren’t just political calculations on the part of Obama. We may be witnessing the end of the era of the U.S. military interventions around the globe. The lessons of Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan were not only very costly for the United States, traumatic as well.
Since 1945, the only war the U.S. has unequivocally won was … the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Americans are tired and would like to renounce the role of the eternal global policeman.
But who’ll take over?
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