President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, on Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. After winding down 20 years of "endless" war in which the vast majority of Americans felt little impact on their daily lives, President Joe Biden now finds the U.S. mired in a conflict in Ukraine -- albeit without any U.S. troops on the ground -- that could prove to have more far-reaching effects on American lives than Iraq or Afghanistan ever did. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
