The Afghanistan papers recently released are pretty damning. It was pretty obvious that we were bumbling around with no real plan or end goal in sight, but having the depths of that purposelessness laid out in stark relief is... wow.
The irony is that Afghanistan is the biggest proof by example of our own foreign policy doctrine, by way of ignoring it entirely.
You lost me. There are gulfs of differing understanding that are just hard to cross and I just can't see across that one. War criminal. Can you see back? As weird from either side, I'm sure.
Kissinger engineered our foreign policy for three decades, either directly, through mentorship, or through his writing and teaching. His voice is a powerful one, and if you are interested in contemporary geopolitics you should read his books and listen to his speeches. World Order is a fantastic text.
You don't have to agree with him.