How Do Black Americans Feel About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 3, 2023
Introduction
As Americans witnessed U.S. forces leave Afghanistan in August 2021, foreign policy experts grappled with how yet another U.S. military withdrawal could end in a strategic failure. President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan concluded the second of the two largest post-9/11 wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. The wars cost the United States trillions of dollars and killed more than seven thousand U.S. service members and hundreds of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilians.
Foreign policy experts and 
