Increasingly, we are seeing momentum in Washington to reign in the nation’s “forever wars.” The Joe Biden administration has begun pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, and Congress is debating the repeal of the Authorizations for the Use of Military Force passed in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. 

The conflicts in the Middle East have become more and more difficult to justify after lawmakers spent over $6 trillion dollars on wars that they knew would be unwinnable. While the U.S. public has largely grown desensitized to these wars, we are still reminded of their ongoing