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attempting to “weaken” what
he termed “the U.N.-centric
world order.” America’s
“hasty withdrawal from
Afghanistan,” he added,
should be regarded as “a
further demonstration of the
rules the West is going to
build its world order on.”
Picking up on that theme,
the new president of the
Islamic Republic of Iran,
Ebrahim Raisi, whose
involvement in the mass
execution of dissidents
in the 1980s earned him
the nickname “Butcher of
Tehran,” gleefully pointed
out that “today, the U.S.
does not get to exit Iraq and
Afghanistan but is expelled.”
He made clear that his
regime has as little regard
for President Biden as it did
for President Trump: “Today,
the world doesn’t care about

‘America First’ or ‘America is
Back.’”
Ambassador Kim Song, the
spokesman for the dynastic
dictatorship in North Korea,
took issue with President
Biden’s claim to have
terminated America’s longest
war. “The reality,” he said, is
“that the Korean War has not
ended for over 70 years.”
He’s correct. America
neither won nor ended that
conflict. Instead, in 1953, we
settled for a stalemate. Since
then, we have maintained
a presence in the South
— currently about 28,000
troops — tasked with
ensuring that the Beijing-
allied dictatorship does not
overrun the peninsula.
For decades, South
Korea suffered from
dreadful governance. Over
time, however, it became

increasingly democratic, free
and prosperous. Afghanistan
might have followed a similar
path—with the Taliban

prevented from reconquering
the country — had American
leaders not decided that
maintaining a much smaller

UN PHOTO/CIA PAK

UN emblem
and podium
in the General
Assembly Hall.

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