Taliban
A sponsor of terror that will respond to American leverage.
Islamabad reaps what it has sown.
Millions of dollars that serve as a lifeline to Afghanistan’s jihadist rulers.
Doha continues to invest in extremist groups.
President Biden decided to unfreeze funds taken from Afghanistan’s central bank after the Taliban takeover.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, terrorists don’t moderate just because they have to fulfil the normal obligations of civic governance.
Soon it will be able to direct attacks abroad.
America has made a foolish deal with the devil.
The first Islamist group to congratulate the Taliban for its victory.
America has been learning and forgetting the lessons of 2001 for decades. It’s now in the midst of forgetting them again. Will the same result follow?
Will the desire to recreate imperial Persia outweigh shared hostility to the U.S.?
It’s no friend of the Taliban, but the Taliban will never restrain it from attacking the West.
There is much concern over pronouns and microaggressions, and little for teenage girls being sold into slavery.
The consequences to the U.S. could be deadly.