Michael Rubin (@mrubin1971) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog.
It has now been 50 years since the last American military unit left Vietnam, ending what, at the time, was America’s longest war.
The same was true in Afghanistan. Initial U.S. efforts at nation-building were ill-advised, but once the Pentagon scaled back its mission, it found its sweet spot. In the years prior to the American withdrawal, fewer Americans died each year in combat than those killed in Washington, D.C., automobile accidents. The small U.S. deployment to Afghanistan cost little more than the U.S. presence in Korea and Japan but managed to keep the Taliban out of every provincial capital and Kabul.
Nor was Iraq any different. Bush’s willingness to defy public opinion and fight sent shock waves through the insurgency. Faced with American resolve, many terror groups and Iranian-backed militias simply stood down until, for reasons of both ideology and politics, Obama reversed course and withdrew U.S. forces.
Much of the disagreement about U.S. support for Ukraine is honest. Some fear that if Ukraine expels Russia from its territory, Russian President Vladimir Putin might resort to nuclear weapons. That is a legitimate concern, but to stand down and signal that nuclear-armed states can act with impunity against their neighbors would invite more aggression.
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