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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 

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UN emblem 
and podium 
in the General 
Assembly Hall. 

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