{"id":328812,"date":"2021-08-22T06:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/no-biden-we-have-not-stopped-terrorists-from-using-afghanistan-as-a-base\/"},"modified":"2021-08-22T06:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T03:34:20","slug":"no-biden-we-have-not-stopped-terrorists-from-using-afghanistan-as-a-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-biden-we-have-not-stopped-terrorists-from-using-afghanistan-as-a-base\/","title":{"rendered":"#No, Biden, we have not stopped terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#No, Biden, we have not stopped terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/taliban-afghanistan-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s botched pullout from Afghanistan sparked utter madness last week, but it also set up America for a potential nightmare down the road. And he touts his foreign-policy smarts?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. We did that,\u201d Biden asserted Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong. Yes, US forces got 9\/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden (in Pakistan) and degraded al Qaeda. But like cancer cells that escape radiation, even a weakened al Qaeda can regrow and metastasize.<\/p>\n<p>And now that the Taliban \u2014 which harbored al Qaeda in 2001, as it plotted the 9\/11 attack \u2014 have reclaimed Afghanistan, the country poses much the same threat to America as it did 20 years ago. Team Biden may argue that the Taliban have changed, that our counterterror efforts are better and we are more prepared. Yet US intelligence forces are far from perfect, and as we learned on 9\/11, they only need slip once for catastrophe to strike.<\/p>\n<p>Even this week, it\u2019s clear somebody \u2014 whether in the intel community or the Oval Office \u2014 failed to predict how quickly the Taliban would return to power. Biden himself admitted miscalculation.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is the prez\u2019s claim that the United States is well-equipped to detect and stamp out any resurging terror threats in Afghanistan from outside the country reassuring.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Yes, as he says, \u201cour mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building.\u201d But the idea was that a unified nation with a well-equipped, well-trained, trustworthy army could keep the terrorists at bay, perhaps with only minimal US assistance. At that point, America would no longer need a major presence there.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that effort failed. The Afghan army proved it couldn\u2019t be relied on \u2014 meaning Biden\u2019s withdrawal of troops leaves open the possibility of resurging terror threats.<\/p>\n<p>Consider: On Tuesday, the Department of Defense\u2019s lead inspector <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> for the Afghan mission <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodig.mil\/In-the-Spotlight\/Article\/2734124\/lead-inspector-general-for-operation-freedoms-sentinel-i-quarterly-report-to-th\/\">reported:<\/a> \u201cAs the DoD restructured its counterterrorism mission to locations outside of Afghanistan, ISIS-Khorasan exploited the political instability. . . . Additionally, the Taliban continued to maintain its relationship with al-Qaeda, providing safe haven for the terrorist group in Afghanistan.\u201d Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said he\u2019d now raise his assessment of how soon terror groups can reform.<\/p>\n<p>With bin Laden dead and al Qaeda degraded, the 20-year war was not <em>completely<\/em> in vain. But alas, it\u2019s far from \u201cmission accomplished.\u201d\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/21\/no-biden-we-have-not-stopped-terrorists-from-using-afghanistan-as-a-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#No, Biden, we have not stopped terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base&#8221; President Joe Biden\u2019s botched pullout from Afghanistan sparked utter madness last week, but it also set up America for a potential nightmare down the road. And he touts his foreign-policy smarts? \u201cWe went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/taliban-afghanistan-4.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[114672,70629,76548,43,991,72318,73420],"class_list":["post-328812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-21-21","tag-9-11","tag-al-qaeda","tag-editorial","tag-joe-biden","tag-taliban","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}