{"id":346448,"date":"2021-09-30T04:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-bidens-plan-to-stop-terror-is-far-fetched\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T04:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:54:03","slug":"joe-bidens-plan-to-stop-terror-is-far-fetched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-plan-to-stop-terror-is-far-fetched\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to stop terror is \u2018far\u2019-fetched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to stop terror is \u2018far\u2019-fetched<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s policy pronouncements may look great on bumper stickers, but they have fewer calories than Coke Zero. \u201cThe border is closed\u201d was one empty promise. \u201cInflation is temporary\u201d was another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as vacuous was the president\u2019s promise that he will prevent the next 9\/11 by fighting terrorism \u201cover the horizon.\u201d No way that can work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the horizon capability\u201d is a legitimate military term. It means being able to hit targets from a safe place at great distance, without benefit of a military presence in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Modern militaries, not just the United States, have been building out these capabilities for years, using long-range precision-guided weapons or drones paired with long-range or space-based sensors that can pinpoint targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even before the last American troops had skedaddled out of Kabul, military experts complained that, without eyes, ears and influence in Afghanistan, al Qaeda and their ilk would flood back into the country and re-establish a terrorist safe haven from which to launch a new round of 9\/11s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley admitted during testimony yesterday that \u201cthe conditions could be set for a reconstitution of al Qaeda and\/or ISIS.\u201d\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\/09\/biden-terrorism-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Taliban fighters patrol a market in Kabul's Old City, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19639081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-terrorism-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-terrorism-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-terrorism-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taliban fighters patrol a market in Kabul\u2019s Old City, Afghanistan, on Sept. 14, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bernat Armangue\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden has a quick answer: No worries, the US would eliminate these threats from afar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What the president did not share with the American people were all the reasons (which the Pentagon surely must have told him) why \u201cover the horizon\u201d can\u2019t do that job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>For starters, targets have to be identified accurately. The Aug. 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 innocent civilians and zero terrorists reminds us that is easier said than done. Don\u2019t forget, the terrorists have been droned by Americans for 20 years. They have written books on how to avoid being targeted. They aren\u2019t going to sit around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the Taliban aren\u2019t going to make the job any easier. They\u2019ve already started complaining that US surveillance overflights violate their airspace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further, while over-the-horizon attack assets are, by definition, located outside the battle zone, proximity still matters. And the basing options for US attack assets are getting further and further removed from Afghanistan\u2019s borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That means that it will be more expensive for the US to conduct operations, and the operations will be less likely to succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, the greater the response time (from locating a target to delivering munitions to take out the target), the less likely you are to actually hit a mobile target.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21245757666095.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Afghans inspect damage of Ahmadi family house after U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 29, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-19639106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21245757666095.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21245757666095.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21245757666095.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/AP21245757666095.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Afghans inspect damage of Ahmadi home after the US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, the more attack assets are concentrated on Afghanistan, the less these assets are available to support other missions \u2014 like dealing with China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, who says over-the-horizon targeted killings work as a counterterrorism strategy? Well, pretty much nobody. Not there is not anything wrong with killing bad people. But killing bad people is a tactic, not a strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the Global War on Terrorism started, the US identified something like 300 key al Qaeda leaders to be taken out. By the end of Obama\u2019s presidency, we had killed about 3,000 of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the core of al Qaeda hid in Iran and now are coming out to repopulate the movement. Donald Rumsfeld was right \u2014 you can\u2019t just kill your way out of global terrorism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to hunting terrorists, what really kept al Qaeda and their ilk down all these years is that we deprived them of safe havens in places like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.\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\/09\/biden-terrorism-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Taliban fighters escort women march in support of the Taliban government outside Kabul University, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-19639115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-terrorism-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-terrorism-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-terrorism-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taliban fighters escort women marching in support of the Taliban government outside Kabul University on Sept. 11, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bernat Armangue\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dealing with transnational terrorism is like flossing your teeth: as soon you as stop, the rot starts to set in again. Biden is done with flossing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists, however, are not done with Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are dreaming of the next 9\/11 right now, redemption for the 20 years of humiliation from America. Biden has given them new space to run. They will.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>A Heritage Foundation vice president, James Jay Carafano directs the think tank\u2019s research on matters of national security and foreign affairs.\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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