Despite his campaign promises of ending the Forever Wars, Joe Biden has already entangled his presidency within them. He is quietly positioning himself to continue the War in Afghanistan indefinitely.
When U.S. President Biden talked of a “foreign policy for the middle class” in 2020 it wasn’t exactly clear what he meant. It still isn’t. The suggestion was one that was founded on diplomacy rather than intervention. Bound up inside the language is a sack-load of classist and (faintly