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America poorer off after 20-year war on terror
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The world order is 鈥渘o better off鈥 and the United States is 鈥渃ertainly much poorer off 鈥 reputationally and fiscally鈥 20 years after it initiated post-9/11 wars on terror, an expert has said.
鈥淚 would submit that the past 20 years, and more broadly the years since the end of the Cold War, will rank as being among the most disastrous eras in the history of US foreign policy,鈥 said Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies, said in a recent interview.
After the Cold War, the United States 鈥渃ould have chosen global leadership by consensus,鈥 Gupta said. However, it chose to 鈥渋mpose on the world an America-dictated vision of order.鈥
Gupta said America had the world鈥檚 sympathy and support after it was attacked. 鈥淵et, the US pressed ahead into Afghanistan with its 鈥榤y way or the highway鈥 style and has now departed Afghanistan again in its 鈥榤y way or the highway鈥 style.鈥
Along the way during these 20 years, other endless 鈥渨ars of choice鈥 were also initiated by the United States, 鈥渕any of them illegal under international law, and which have rained death and destruction on hundreds of thousands of human beings in Southwest Asia, Middle East and the Arab world,鈥 he said.
With over 47,000 Afghan civilian deaths, 10,000 plus US military casualties, and more than US$2 trillion in war-related costs, 鈥渢he world order is no better off and America certainly much poorer off 鈥 reputationally and fiscally,鈥 he said, adding that the vision of a partnership of nations united by principles and norms under the multilateral umbrella of the United Nations, 鈥渉as remained stillborn.鈥
The expert noted 鈥渢wo fundamental lessons鈥 need to be drawn from the last two decades for better global governance.
First, 鈥渢he age when America鈥檚 shoulders were broad enough to carry the world economy and maintain global order single-handedly is decisively over,鈥 Gupta said.
Second, global challenges like climate change and the pandemic require global solutions, and that 鈥渁t a time of flux in the international system, it is difficult to muster this cooperation 鈥 given disagreements about the distribution of benefits and burdens,鈥 he said.
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