Thanks to Biden, terrorist’s prophecy is proven correct
In his speech Wednesday announcing the
United States’ retreat from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden noted that the 9/11 attacks “sparked an American promise that we would ‘never forget.’” Well, apparently Biden has forgotten the epic disaster he unleashed in 2011 when he was in charge of the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq.
That catastrophic decision created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State to regroup, reconstitute itself and build a caliphate the size of Britain. They unleashed a frenzy of terror — summary executions, women and children buried alive, people crucified, American journalists beheaded, and the enslavement and mass rape of Yazidi women. The rampage of violence was not contained to Iraq and Syria. The Islamic State spread its murderous tentacles across the globe, carrying out 143 attacks in 29 countries that killed more than 2,000 and injured many thousands more. And we were forced to send American troops back to deal with the resurgent terrorist threat.
In a November 2019
Wall Street Journal interview, Biden admitted the decision to withdraw all troops from Iraq “was a mistake” and claimed that as vice president he had tried to keep “a residual force” stationed there. This is revisionist nonsense. Biden was ebullient as he presided over the withdrawal of the last American troops, and even called President Barack Obama from Baghdad to thank him “for giving me the chance to end this war.” In that same interview, Biden went on to criticize Trump for his decision to withdraw the small contingent of U.S. forces in Syria and not leave a residual force there.
So, Biden admits that the complete U.S. withdrawal from Iraq was a mistake, and chastised Trump for his withdrawal from Syria. Yet now he is withdrawing the “residual force” of U.S. troops in Afghanistan?
The U.S. forces in Afghanistan are not nation-building. They are not policing the country. They are not even fighting a war. They are training, equipping and enabling Afghan forces who are fighting our enemies for us, while collecting intelligence and carrying out occasional strikes. According to Stars and Stripes, last year four Americans were killed in action in Afghanistan, “making for the lowest number of U.S. combat deaths in the country in a calendar year since the war began in October 2001.” But that small contingent of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, together with some 7,000 NATO forces, prevents the Taliban from overthrowing the pro-American government and turning the country into a terrorist sanctuary again.
Biden has given the Taliban a green light to launch an assault on Kabul, install a radical Islamist emirate and invite al-Qaeda to restore its lost sanctuary.
Perhaps worst of all, Biden has tied the U.S. withdrawal to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — turning that solemn day of remembrance into a victory celebration for the terrorists. It is a victory the enemy predicted from the start. After he was captured,
9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his CIA interrogator something prophetic: While the United States may enjoy some fleeting battlefield successes, Mohammed declared, in the end “we will win because Americans don’t realize ... we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting.”
Two decades after 9/11, Joe Biden is making KSM’s prophecy come true.