The War on Terror was a cul-de-sac for the US and the Taliban's takeover of Kabul exposed the folly of the last 20 years
, including the US and the UK, two chief architects of such legislation.
Yet even as its occupation in Iraq floundered, the Libya intervention soured, and drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Syria and the Sahel region in Africa failed to achieve long term measurable outcomes and, Afghanistan continued to underpin the original rationale for America's global WoT campaign.
," the authors spoke about the Taliban's opposition against the sexual abuse of young boys as a "key factor" in the rise of the group. Rafiq, however, is not optimistic that the WoT has been all together scrapped. Instead, it has been "rebranded" with covert and special operations forces leading the charge, "but the era of large-scale occupations is over," he says
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