The title has the wrong tense. “Wreaks” should be replaced by “Has Wreaked,” with “For Decades” at the end. Vasko Kohlmayer reviews the sordid history at lewrockwell.com:
“US leadership holds the world together,” declared Joe Biden in a recent televised address to the nation.
Of all the untruths that Joe Biden has uttered in his term as president this one is perhaps the most egregious. It is enough to look at the past two decades to see just how wrong President Biden’s claim is.
Instead of holding the world together, America’s political leadership has, in fact, inflicted wholesale chaos, death, and destruction in many places across the globe. It has attacked and invaded sovereign nations, shattered societies, created instability and caused the deaths of millions.
The War on Terror
Examples abound. Afghanistan and Iraq are a good start. After spending years and trillions of dollars to pummel these two nations into submission we left them in complete disarray.
Who can forget our infamous exit from Kabul in August of 2021 with desperate Afghanis hanging on the wings of the departing planes?
It is worth reminding ourselves who took over after we unceremoniously departed that long-tried nation. It was the Taliban: the same bad guys we set out to chase away 20 years previously.
