Guardian
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Joe Biden, now the US president, recently traveled to Warsaw to rally international support for Ukraine’s fight to repel Russian aggression.
Peter Bergen: Biden, then chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, voted to authorize the Iraq war, a decision he came to regret.
He says Biden's statement is only the latest in a string of attempts by US leaders to forget the war and move on.
Bergen says it might not be possible to reach a better future without understanding why past attempts failed.
Stephen Wertheim says support for Ukraine is mere power politics, not a principled cause in which all countries have a stake.
He says the US should admit past errors and demonstrate, through words and deeds, that it has learned difficult lessons.
But even as the US takes the right side of the latest war, it is far from clear what lessons the US has learned.
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