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Why European criticism of the US Afghanistan pullout is so refreshing

23 August 2021

6:19 AM

23 August 2021

6:19 AM

You actually can spell ‘North Atlantic Treaty Organization’ without ‘America’, as it turns out. You can also, however, spell ‘North Atlantic Treaty Organization’ without, say, ‘European Union commissioner Ursula von der Leyen’. And right now, that seems like the more pressing of these two anagrammatical bombshells.

Both the United States and Europe have spent the last week reprising what by now ought to be played-to-death roles.

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