Commentary As the Biden administration withdraws U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, the prevailing media headline declares, with panicked certainty, that America has failed and suffered a strategic defeat. All is lost out there. Trillions of taxpayer dollars were squandered. Our killed and wounded in action suffered in vain. Etcetera. That loser narrative ignores the historical fact that occupying and governing Afghanistan was never America’s objective. Stabilizing? Yes, but I’ll get back to that in a moment. Fact: When U.S. military personnel entered Afghanistan in September 2001, America’s goal was to cripple and destroy the communication, supply, and personnel networks supporting Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida brand of global Islamofascist terrorism. Bin Laden’s zealots were global guerrillas whose victory was ordained by God. Destroying the World Trade Center demonstrated Al Qaida could destroy America as a world power, to be replaced by the global caliphate. Al Qaida’s 9/11 massacre taught open-minded Americans …