Biden's Failing Afghanistan Withdrawal

By refusing to use overwhelming air power to blunt the Taliban's rise, President Joe Biden is failing to protect American interests in Afghanistan and ultimately undermining national security.

The Taliban clearly hold the current strategic initiative. That said, Afghan forces, especially special forces units, are managing to inflict casualties on Taliban forces. Still, provincial capitals are beginning to fall. As more Afghan units become exhausted, the Taliban will find it easier to compress major population centers such as Kandahar and Kabul. U.S. policymakers should consider the prospective fall of those cities to be intolerable.

Contrary to the Trump and Biden administrations' assertions, the Taliban remain an ally of al Qaeda. It is thus not simply the girls and women of Afghanistan who have much to fear from a Taliban return to power. A new Taliban regime would help revitalize al Qaeda's forever war on the West. It would do so in 2021 for the same reason it did in 2001. Namely, because the Taliban share al Qaeda's theologically vested belief that the United States is intrinsically evil and requiring of forcible submission to political Islam. In turn, it should be clear that a Taliban regime would pose a profound threat to American security.

This is not to say that the U.S. should return to its nation-building adventurism in Afghanistan. Twenty years of experience have proven that, however noble, America's efforts to build a nationwide network of schools, commerce, and a functioning democratic civil society were ultimately foolish.

Over 20 years, the Taliban's dominance of Afghanistan's eastern and southern hinterlands was matched only by the Afghan government's incompetence and corruption. What has changed since the U.S. withdrawal is not that the Taliban have finally seized vast areas of territory. Rather, it is that where the Taliban's control was once practiced from the shadows, it is now practiced overtly. It was a mistake to send tens of thousands of American troops to patrol the Helmand River valley and the valleys of Nangarhar. So also was it a mistake to believe that vast injections of American cash wouldn't end up as feed in the trough of Afghan corruption.

Still, even while learning from these errors of statecraft, the U.S. must defend its national interests.

President Biden should commit to extending the use of air power and nonmilitary ground support beyond his Sept. 11 withdrawal deadline. Within this framework, the U.S. must act to prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming one big terrorist safe haven.

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It is over. Afghanistan has fallen. The embassy has been overrun. All remaining Americans have been abandoned and told to shelter in place.

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This man is delusional.

'Failing'? It failed months ago and many Americans were left to face the Taliban alone. Not only that but, millions of dollars, (OUR Tax Dollars), worth of MILITARY Equipement and weapons were left for the Terrorists. It's funny too, Democrats want to disarm the law abiding here but, leave known Terrorists to have tax funded military equipment and weapons!

Yes, failing.  Bear in mind the article is dated (and was posted) in August, 2021.

Biden got the US out of there. Good.

Or did you still want a war there?

Sprintcyclist wrote:Biden got the US out of there.  Good.

Or did you still want a war there?

It's the way he got 'some' of them out that was NOT good.

No other Pres did it.

Red Lily wrote:

Sprintcyclist wrote:Biden got the US out of there.  Good.

Or did you still want a war there?

It's the way he got 'some' of them out that was NOT good.

I agree! America has always had a "no one left behind" mantra that has served her well. The fact that the Demented in chief got out WITHOUT everyone shows that he is NOT a patriot, NOT American and in the hip pocket of the Communists!

By the way Squinty, NO ONE WANTS A WAR ANYWHERE but, reality is reality. Whether you want to hide in your Mother's basement or not. There ARE people in this world who would harm ANYONE or kill ANYONE that didn't believe as they do. To leave American citizens in Afghanistan because you couldn't care less about them is callous, cold and not at all American. To leave millions of tax dollars worth of military equipment and weapons over there while touting that you want to disarm the law abiding is, tantamount to a Communist.

TollyBon sounds like a cinnamon bun.