The Biden-Harris failure in Afghanistan is making world a more dangerous place, even at Taylor Swift concerts
John R. Bolton
The turmoil the Biden-Harris administration left behind in Afghanistan is responsible for the increased threats of terrorism worldwide, including the plot against Taylor Swift’s concerts in Austria.
According to investigators, al Qaeda, the Islamic State (“ISIS”), and ISIS-K (“ISIS-Khorasan,” an ancient name for much of central Asia, including Iran and Afghanistan) all had a hand in radicalizing the teens who planned the concert mass murder.
Al Qaeda is now almost embedded in the Kabul regime of the Taliban, while the ISIS factions are currently adversaries. The terrorism world, however, doesn’t function along the lines of corporate organizational charts. Loyalties and affiliations come and go, sometimes with cooperation and armed hostility existing simultaneously, and constantly changing.
Afghanistan after America’s 2021 evacuation provides the ideal environment: enough anarchy and lack of central Taliban control that it is once again a haven for international terrorists.
As far back as October 2021, just weeks after the bungled US and NATO withdrawal concluded, senior Biden Defense Department officials testified in open congressional hearings that ISIS-K and al Qaeda intended to launch worldwide terrorist attacks. One said, “we could see ISIS-K generate that capability in somewhere between six or twelve months, according to current assessments. And for Al Qaeda, it would take a year or two to reconstitute that capability.”
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