Carbon emissions and the developing world, the role of people in AI strategies, and the enormous costs of America's war in Afghanistan.
Biden was wrong on Afghanistan “The enormous cost of the war, and the losses that Afghans bore and continue to bear, gave America a moral responsibility to ensure a better outcome. This is about more than sunk costs. Biden argued that America went into Afghanistan for counterterrorism purposes (to rout al-Qaida) and not for nation-building, and that the conflict in Afghanistan was ‘another country’s civil war.’ But that elides American responsibility for outcomes in Afghanistan,” argues Madiha Afzal. Read more | Help support Brookings with a donation Brookings is committed to making its high-quality, independent policy research free to the public. Please consider making a contribution today to our Annual Fund to support our experts' work. | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |