In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden leaves door open for war on terror

In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden left the door open for more "counterterrorism" - with serious implications for our foreign policy, politics, and legal system

Although President Biden has held fast on his commitment to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, he has thrown a few bones to advocates of U.S. power projection. One, in particular, stands out, and that is Biden’s promise to use our “counterterrorism over-the-horizon capability” in Afghanistan and the wider region if necessary.

What does this mean? On one level, it sounds like we’ll keep killing people with drones. That, after all, seems to be the real-life application of “over-the-horizon capability” in the other places that Biden mentioned — Somalia, Syria, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula.

More broadly, however, Biden is assuring us that the