Biden’s Vainglory Brings Abject Humiliation in Afghanistan, 30 août 2021

Biden’s Vainglory Brings Abject Humiliation in Afghanistan, 30 août 2021

Article du Wall Street Journal par Gerard Baker, le 30 août 2021.  (NB : article complet réservé aux abonnés)

” ‘America is back,’ the president said in February, promising to ‘live . . . by the power of our example.’ …  But as a lesson in the tragic cost of vanity, not much can top the spectacle we have witnessed in the past few weeks: an administration so steeped in self-belief, so driven by self-confidence, so disastrously misled by the vain order it imagined it could impose on the world; a hubris now paid for not in a high-level resignation or even an expression of contrition, but in the lives of American troops, lions again sacrificed to save the faces of the donkeys who lead them. …”