Many want South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to be terribly wrong about Afghanistan, but ongoing events seem to be culminating into Graham’s prediction about the future of Afghanistan and our involvement in it proving to be correct. This from redstate.com.
As reported by The Hill, Graham told the BBC that America will be going back to Afghanistan in the near future:
“We will be going back into Afghanistan,” Graham predicted. “We’ll have to because the threat will be so large.”
He warned that Afghanistan will become “a cauldron for radical Islamic behavior,” despite assurances from Taliban leaders that they will not allow the country to become a safe haven for groups such as al Qaeda and ISIS like it was before the 9/11 attacks, which prompted the U.S. to invade 20 years ago.
He predicted that the Taliban are “going to give safe haven to al Qaeda who has ambitions to drive us out of the Mideast writ large and attack us because of our way of life.”
“We will be going back into Afghanistan as we went back into Iraq and Syria,” he added.
Many wanted American military forces out of Afghanistan and had been saying so for years. The cultural differences are not conducive to a western-style government to take any kind of real form there. And once foreign powers had departed the country, the ethnic infighting would preclude the successful establishment of a viable government likely for decades to come.
As experts on this region of the world have stated, withdrawal should have come, but it should have come with far more care and redundant safety measures than what we did by tossing in the towel and running with our tails between our legs.
The deal, as Trump was going to have it, was that the Taliban were forbidden from importing terrorists into the country and would make peace deals with the Afghanistan government.
Violating these, and other rules would result in the Qassem Solemani treatment, where you go from an important terrorist one day to a nice atomized mist the next.
That is if soldiers with American flag patches on their arms didn’t knock on your door first.
The inept pretender-in-chief withdrew so quickly, everyone was caught by surprise, even the Taliban. Absolutely no protections and reassurances were in place, just Americans, allies, and a number of good boys— willingly assisting some left behind. Thank God for their help.
The democrat display of ignoble leadership and absence of reliability to our partners are going to encourage ideological fanatics of all stripes to flood into Afghanistan and begin preparing for their next attack on everyone they consider an enemy, which IS everyone, particularly America and Americans.
This talk about how the Taliban will give shelter and aid to groups like Al Queda is moot. They’re different groups, but its members flit between one group to the next at their convenience. Today Taliban, tomorrow ISIS-K.
The democrat blunder in this Afghanistan endeavor, as well as everything foreign and domestic they’ve done throughout the past eight months, has all but guaranteed an attack will be carried out on American soil from terrorist groups that organized inside Afghanistan. And when this happens, be assured the United States military will be back in Afghanistan with an absence of any lessons learned from the past twenty years.
There are those who believe Graham will be giddy over being right that we’re going back into Afghanistan in months or years to come.
He always liked the idea, but [many] don’t.
That said, America may sadly find itself with yet another generation of Afghan-war veterans and war dead.
