About two years ago, this administration used their best judgment. America withdrew from Afghanistan. The withdrawal left behind material, money, and personnel. However you view the decision, this administration is responsible for the results. What are those results?
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Today Afghanistan has again become a center for planning acts of terror. That is the Pentagon’s assessment. The information comes from recently leaked intel documents in the news. They are corroboration of the criticisms of security officials made at the time.
The Washington Post says the Islamic State in Afghanistan has at least 15 terror plots in the works mostly focused in Europe and Asia. They include churches, businesses, embassies, and sporting events.
The Biden administration says the U.S. retains the ability to remove terrorists from the battlefield even without a permanent troop presence on the ground in Afghanistan. There’s nothing here for us to worry about. Do you believe that?
The recently leaked intel documents say: ISIS is developing a cost-effective network for carrying out terror operations around the world relying on resources outside Afghanistan. The model allows ISIS to overcome obstacles, shorten the timeline on terror plots, reducing the likelihood of detection and efforts to thwart their plans.
From prior Congressional testimony, we know ISIS is expected to be back in the terror business by this August. So the administration has traded Afghanistan which we had a lid on… but now we don’t; for Ukraine. Our national interest in Ukraine was …? Burisma? Money laundering? Anti-Semitism? Anti-Christian activity?
When we retreated from Afghanistan we left our information networks in tatters. The result is we don’t have the full picture. We do get some information from ISIS’s use of email and phones. The problem wasn’t that we left but how we did it. We have allowed ISIS to re-grow.
