Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.
Journal: Middle East Policy
Year: 2023

On the first anniversary of the US pullout from Afghanistan, a former Iraqi prime minister lamented the American approach to the forever wars. “You cannot go to bring down regimes and establish new regimes, and make changes by occupation, and all of a sudden you shift to a different policy, a hands-off policy,” Haider al-Abadi told the Intercept.1 While a supporter of deposing Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, al-Abadi asserted that the US military should not have occupied countries like Iraq and