Afghanistan has become the endless war

Trump is proposing to do the same old things again in the hope of achieving different results.

Canadian soldiers participating in Operation Madusa in Afghanistan in 2006. Gwynne Dyer writes that Donald Trump, like his predecessor, might be trying to make sure the Western-backed Afghan government doesn't collapse under his watch. National Defence photograph by Sgt Lou Penney

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 28, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—In 2010, Barack Obama’s vice-president, Joe Biden, vowed that the United States would be “totally out” of Afghanistan “come hell or high water, by 2014.” In 2014, Obama said that he would leave about 8,000 U.S. troops there after all, and made an agreement with Afghan Presi...

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