“I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years, with the United States not at war,” President Joe Biden declared at the United Nations General Assembly.

Yet mere hours before that speech, some 2,000 new U.S. troops assumed responsibility for the deployment of U.S. combat power in Iraq. The fact is, the U.S. remains at war, and Biden should devote more attention to ending U.S. involvement in other peripheral conflicts.