Calling the insurgency in Mozambique ‘terrorism’ won’t help end it
The US can park its military gear and instead help foment structures of good governance.
Elizabeth Shackelford is a senior fellow on U.S. foreign policy with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Previously she served as a U.S. diplomat for the U.S. State Department in Somalia, South Sudan, Poland, and Washington, D.C. She is the author of “The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age.”
The US can park its military gear and instead help foment structures of good governance.
But Biden could turn it around by making the new Congress decide whether to put troops back into the country, or not.
For decades, our Africa policy has taken a blunt approach, quickly designating the good guys and the bad and painting each with a broad brush that demands unquestioning loyalty or enmity.
Addressing only the offenses of the Trump administration will not help us build back a better foreign policy than we had before.