Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Experts consider the President Joe Biden want to United States of America quit being a world policeman after withdrawing his troops from Afghanistan earlier this week.
A lecturer at Marquette Law University, Charles Franklin, saw this behavior after seeing Biden deliver a speech about the troop withdrawal. In a speech, said that “America has returned.”
Joe Biden stressed that his administration is determined to end the United States’ presence not only in Afghanistan, but also in other countries.
“This decision about Afghanistan is not just about Afghanistan,” Biden said.
“Human rights will be at the center of our foreign policy, but the way to do that is not through endless military deployments. Our strategy has to change,” Biden said.
Charles Franklin considers the direction of Biden’s policy to stop making the US the “police of the world” is actually similar to Trump who really wants to focus on the country.
“When Joe Biden announced that it was time to end war forever it could easily be said to be like Trump,” Franklin said.
He later said, “Nowadays the public is no longer interested in a big international role, certainly not like what the US played in the 1950s-1990s.”
Even so, pundits see a fundamental difference between Biden’s and Trump’s focus. While Trump seems to want to “isolate” the US, Biden still wants to ally with other countries.
However, Tricia Bacon, a counter-terrorism expert at the American University law department, thinks the US reputation will be tarnished in the eyes of allies, especially because of the chaos in the evacuation process from Afghanistan.
“It is natural that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan frustrated the allies because the coordination between Joe Biden and the allies was not going well,” Bacon said.
Meanwhile, research director of the Arab Center in Washington, Imad Harb, said that US allies in the Arab world are also likely to question US credibility.
“Arab regimes accustomed to close ties to the United States should be concerned about what is happening in Afghanistan,” he said.
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