{"id":326294,"date":"2021-08-17T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/president-biden-is-rolling-the-dice-on-terror-threat\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:20:07","slug":"president-biden-is-rolling-the-dice-on-terror-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-biden-is-rolling-the-dice-on-terror-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"#President Biden is rolling the dice on terror threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#President Biden is rolling the dice on terror threat<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>President Biden is making a hell of a gamble \u2014 and the stakes are on us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reason for invading Afghanistan in 2001 was because the Taliban was harboring al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. We stayed to prevent other terrorist threats from arising there. And it worked. While Islamic extremist killers struck in Europe and the US over the past 20 years, there was nothing on the scale of 9\/11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to Biden\u2019s inept pullout, the Taliban has rolled over the nation. With the administration having been so wrong on everything else, how can Americans trust it when it says the Taliban can be negotiated with?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest question hovering over Biden\u2019s Monday speech was whether his announced shift from nation-building to limited counterterrorist strikes will actually work \u2014 or prove a bust.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-836.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Biden's administration is pivoting to a strategy that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld supported in Afghanistan. \" class=\"wp-image-19149766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-836.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-836.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-836.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden\u2019s administration is pivoting to a strategy that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld supported in Afghanistan. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Susan Walsh<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the very doctrine that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld espoused. Rumsfeld never wanted to occupy Afghanistan, let alone Iraq. He was overruled during the George W. Bush administration, which slid into the morass of rebuilding Afghanistan in America\u2019s image. My guess is that Rumsfeld, a staunch foreign-policy realist, would have greeted Biden\u2019s emphasis on counterterrorism with hosannas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The upshot is that Biden\u2019s political fate will rest not in the exit from Kabul but in whether the Taliban have got religion, so to speak, on supporting terrorist malefactors. So far, it doesn\u2019t look good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has suggested that the new Taliban are not the old Taliban. Here\u2019s hoping. But they have refused to disavow al Qaeda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Taliban fighters driving through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 16, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19149760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/helibrunn-terror-threat-833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taliban fighters driving through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 16, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Xinhua via ZUMA Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our intelligence in Afghanistan is not great, even when we were on the ground. Indeed, an abysmal American intelligence failure is at the heart of the current mess in Kabul. Will we be able to detect if ISIS, al Qaeda or any other terror group is plotting a large-scale attack as \u201cguests\u201d of the Taliban?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Biden is wrong, it will be more than just political. The lives of Americans are at stake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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