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World is deeply shaken by America's retreat
Opinion by David A. Andelman
Updated 2:17 PM ET, Fri August 20, 2021
David A. Andelman, a contributor to CNN, twice winner of the Deadline Club Award, and executive director of The Red Lines Project, is the author of "A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happen" and host of its Evergreen podcast. He formerly was a correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News in Europe and Asia. Follow him on Twitter @DavidAndelman. The views expressed in this commentary belong solely to the author. View more opinion on CNN.
(CNN)The international community's belief in America as a steady hand on the global tiller has been deeply shaken by the chaos engulfing Afghanistan.
In the early days of Joe Biden's presidency, many world leaders feared that Biden would simply be a welcome, but temporary, reprieve from former President Donald Trump's nativist and isolationist politics. When Biden was running for president, he had tried to assuage those concerns by saying on his first day in office he'd reach out to our NATO allies and assure them they could once again count on the US.
Now this fear has been replaced by a new concern -- that this is all indeed a ghastly continuum. The fact is America is not back. It is in a rushed retreat, most recently in the one place where Western allies had come together two decades ago.
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