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Let them tango right into NATO

Taliban signup would be another ‘extraordin­ary success’ for Biden

- Peter LUCAS Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachuse­tts political reporter and columnist.

The next thing you know, President Biden will be asking the Taliban to join NATO.

Granted Biden took credit for his “extraordin­ary success,” in bugging out of Kabul and leaving hundreds of Americans behind, as well as abandoning thousands of loyal Afghans.

What he meant to say was that while the evacuation was an extraordin­ary success, it was a success for the Taliban, not the U.S.

For Biden and the U.S. it was an extraordin­ary humiliatio­n.

But that has not stopped Biden from making nice with the Taliban, which now rules Afghanista­n and holds all those abandoned Americans hostage.

Already Gen. Mark Milley, Biden’s woke top general, has indicated that the U.S. military — and presumably NATO — are ready to partner with the Taliban to go after ISIS, which is supposedly a worst terrorist group than the Taliban — if possible.

So why not make the Taliban a member of NATO and go after ISIS together?

Thanks to Biden and the $90 billion in U.S. military equipment now in the hands of the Taliban Islamic terrorists, Afghanista­n now has a military that is bigger, stronger and better equipped than NATO’s.

As a result of Biden’s hasty, ill planned and precipitou­s withdrawal from Afghanista­n, the terrorist organizati­on now has more battle-hardened troops (80,000) than NATO, as well as more Humvees (22,174), more trucks (8,000), more SUVs and pickups, (42,000), more assault rifles (358,530), more machine guns ( 64,363), more pistols (126,295) and 176 pieces of artillery.

This does not include over a hundred helicopter­s, including 33 Black Hawks.

No wonder the Taliban is celebratin­g and holding victory parades.

Bringing the Taliban and Afghanista­n into NATO would be the biggest foreign relations breakthrou­gh since President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for being Obama.

And if President Obama can get the Nobel for doing nothing, then surely Biden deserves two of them. One would be for lying about his botched Afghanista­n withdrawal and the other for covering it up.

And what better way is there for Bug Out Biden to pay homage to the new “reformed” Taliban terrorist leaders of Afghanista­n than to welcome them into the family of NATO nations?

“This is not your father’s Taliban,” Biden would say, squinting into his teleprompt­er.

Of course the Taliban leaders are liable to balk at Biden merely paying them homage, when they want to be paid in cash. So like his former boss Barack did with Iran, Biden soon will be flying in planes loaded with cash to get our new friends to release the Americans held hostage.

He already has said Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden’s Neville Chamberlai­n, is in communicat­ion with the Taliban.

And National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who looks like a Boston Globe intern who failed to make the cut, has promised economic aid and financial ransom to the Taliban if they free the hundreds of American hostages.

Biden is so weak that he will do anything to appease the terrorists

So proposing NATO membership for Afghanista­n would give the new Taliban leaders a seat at the table, providing they did not arrive at summit meetings wearing captured U.S. Army uniforms and carrying U.S. assault rifles.

Of course, the invitation would not be issued until every American left behind is rescued, which will take some time now that the U.S. no longer has a presence in Afghanista­n.

Despite the evacuation disaster, Biden seems to think he can work things out with the Taliban.

This seems so even though the victorious Taliban repeatedly stage events mocking him and the U.S.

It is obvious for the world to see that the Taliban relish toying with Biden who they rightfully expect is long past his prime.

That is why on the same day that the Taliban held a parade humiliatin­g the U.S. in Kabul, its spokesman welcomed the reopening of the abandoned U.S. Embassy. This is the well-fortified complex that could have been used as a staging area for stranded Americans if Biden had not ordered it abandoned.

“America should have only a diplomatic presence in Kabul,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said last week. “We have communicat­ion channels with them and we expect them to reopen their embassy in Kabul and we also want to have trade with them,” he said.

See, they’re not so bad, Biden will say.

Thanks to Biden and the $90 billion in U.S. military equipment now in the hands of the Taliban Islamic terrorists, Afghanista­n now has a military that is bigger, stronger and better equipped than NATO’s.

 ?? Ap ?? MADE IN USA: A Taliban fighter at the airport in Kabul, Afghanista­n, on Sunday rests his Nike-clad feet and snacks on Skippy peanut butter, Busy Bee honey and Nutri-Grain bars while toting western-style assault weapons.
Ap MADE IN USA: A Taliban fighter at the airport in Kabul, Afghanista­n, on Sunday rests his Nike-clad feet and snacks on Skippy peanut butter, Busy Bee honey and Nutri-Grain bars while toting western-style assault weapons.
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