Alfred W. McCoy is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power and To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (Dispatch Books).

05.10.2021

Alfred W. McCoy

The US’s Failure in Afghanistan Shows the Hubris of American Empire

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan signals the US has lost the longest war in its history. And even if the warmongers don’t want to admit it, that failure shows the US can’t just bend the world to its will.