Damned either way, Biden opts out of Afghanistan as US tires of ‘forever wars’

Analysis: Despite warnings not enough has been done to stablise the country, the president has decided to set aside the rule if you break it, you fix it'

Joe Biden has decided that 20 years is enough for America's longest war, and has ordered the remaining troops out no matter what happens between now and September.

Biden's withdrawal is one area of continuity with his predecessor, although unlike Donald Trump, this administration consulted the Afghans, US allies and its own agencies before announcing the decision. But both presidents were responding to a national weariness of forever wars".