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Afghanistan Reveals US Choices Have Dangerously Narrowed

Afghanistan Reveals US Choices Have Dangerously Narrowed
Afghan people queue up and board a U.S. military aircraft to leave Afghanistan, at the military airport in Kabul on Aug. 19, 2021. Shakib Rahmani/AFP via Getty Images
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In the “Nicomachean Ethics,” Aristotle has a lot to say about the activity of choice and its place in securing “eudaimonia,” that “good-spiritedness” that is synonymous with human fulfillment.

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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