Biden White House Begs Putin to Allow Them to Implement Their 'Over the Horizon' Counterterrorism Program in Afghanistan..........Thirteen young Americans, some of whom were infants when the first US troops set foot in Afghanistan, died because of a callous political decision that made them vulnerable to attack. A local aid worker was targeted for death by a US drone attack for what appears to be no greater reason than trying to make Soft Serve Joe look tough. A female US soldier was “assaulted” by a “group of male Afghan refugees” at Fort Bliss, TX. One Afghan refugee at Fort McCoy, WI, has been charged with several counts of child sex abuse involving multiple children; another refugee at the same installation has been charged with domestic violence (I don’t know if he was charged because the violence exceeded that normal in Afghanistan or because it violated US standards). Another Afghan who’d served part of a prison term for forcible rape before being deported managed to catch a lift back to the US.
Human suffering aside, there are the security implications that are still reverberating around the globe, as allies have started looking over their shoulders and wondering just how useful our security guarantees will be in the future. And there is a valid concern that al-Qaeda will once again occupy training camps in Afghanistan.
As to the latter concern, we’ve been told repeatedly that the solution is an “over the horizon” presence that allows us to surveil Afghanistan, and identify and eliminate threats by way of air assets based at a substantial distance from Afghanistan, generally in Qatar and the UAE. This limits the amount of time those assets can spend over the target area and relies upon compliant countries to give us overflight privileges.
Now, we’re told that a fix is in the works, and our White Knight is none other than Vladimir Putin..............
https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/09/28/biden-white-house-house-begs-vladimir-putin-to-allow-them-to-implement-their-over-the-horizon-counterterrorism-program-in-afghanistan-n449082
