Charter of Laura Canali – 2020
06/26/2023
From Japan after 1945 to Europe after 1989, from the Middle East to the Balkans, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, the United States has often withdrawn from conflict situations before a definitive solution could be found. The damage of this choice is becoming more and more obvious.
There is something incongruous and in many ways tragic and absurd how the world’s greatest power has dealt with the conflicts in which it has been involved since the end of World War II.
Inappropriate, because such conflicts never ended entirely satisfactorily, with a peace just enough to satisfy all concerned and with the risk of the fire suddenly flaring up again completely eliminated. Tragic, because while the United States has managed to pull out gracefully in most cases, other countries that have been left to their own devices have very often had to face the negative consequences of their withdrawal.