Biden accused of promoting Taliban pipeline

 World Net Daily:

After canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, eliminating thousands of American jobs, President Biden's administration began negotiating a deal between the Taliban and one of the world's worst dictatorships for a trans-national pipeline.

An agreement with the government of Turkmenistan would bring gas across Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, writes Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official, in a column for the Washington Examiner.

"Consider that while the Biden administration is killing a pipeline from which the public could benefit, Biden is promoting a pipeline to enrich both one of the world's worst dictatorships and a group responsible for thousands of U.S. deaths," he wrote.

It's the same deal that now-Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad sought to make with the Taliban prior to the 9/11 attack.

Rubin noted that Freedom House’s latest Freedom in the World report ranks Turkmenistan as among the world’s worst violaters of civil liberties, below even North Korea.
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If true, Biden's pipeline policy appears to be limiting them in the US and promoting them elsewhere.  It is one of the ways he has driven up the price of gas in this country while expanding access to fossil fuel in the rest of the world.  It is clearly a turn away from the America first policies of the Trump administration.