Biden's Afghan debacle

 Washington Examiner:

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.

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Biden is prone to making rash decisions without thinking about the consequences.  It is the reason the Afghan situation has deteriorated precipitously.   It is also the reason the gas prices are going through the roof when he stopped pipelines and stopped domestic production on federal sites.  Biden is a man who seems to not even consider the consequences when he makes rash decisions.

See, also:

Report: Biden had hoped for a "better behaved Taliban"

Really?