Axios: CIA director: Afghanistan withdrawal poses "significant risk" of terrorist resurgence
CIA director William Burns acknowledged Wednesday that there is a "significant risk" that the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan could allow al-Qaeda and ISIS to rebuild, but stressed that these groups currently do not have the capacity to attack the U.S. homeland.
Why it matters: President Biden is set to formally announce on Wednesday that the U.S. will withdraw all forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, potentially bringing America's longest war to a close after 20 years.
Driving the news: "We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result," Biden will say as he sets out a plan for withdrawal that will ultimately not be conditions-based.
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Update #1: CIA chief says intelligence will diminish once U.S. troops leave Afghanistan -- Reuters Update #2: CIA head says Afghanistan withdrawal 'will diminish' US intelligence efforts -- The Hill
WNU Editor: The White House has a different point of view .... Psaki dismisses military, CIA concerns about Afghanistan pullout (FOX News).
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Afghanistan will not be ungoverned space. It was not ungoverned space before 911. All of Afghanistan was governed by the Taliban except a sliver controlled by the Lion of Panjir and they were about to get that after assassinating the Lion and with the help of Al Qaeda and Pakistan. Al Qaeda planned and trained for operations from Afghanistan that the Taliban did not know about. The Taliban was upset that blowback was going to hit them, but they forgave Al Qaeda murdering 3,000 plus people.
It is better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission is operative here.
In the future The Taliban will govern Afghanistan hand in hand with the Pakistani Benefactors. Pakistan will lose its foreign aid which was given for allowing us a few supplies to transit their country to fight their boys, The Taliban. China will more than make up for it and the Taliban will fall in line.
If there are terrorist training camp, and there will be, The Taliban will keep closer tabs on them and any operations will be more covert. The Taliban will do what Pakistan does and sponsor terrorist groups. Oddly those groups will not harm China, but will harm the US, India, Europe and others.
William Burns is full of shit.
Putin is going to regret that he got what he wished for. That is the US gone. The USSR was happy enough to spread the revolution in Afghanistan and they were more political savvy about it than the true believer Afghan communists. But probably more important than spreading the revolution was the fact that many people were proselytizing Islam from Afghanistan and going into the Central Asian Republics. This will happen again. It does not hurt China in the short term. But in the short term it can do more to discomfort Russia than China. So Putin gets what he wants and wish he had not.
Catholic Socials Services, Lutheran Social Services and the USG get what they want. They get Afghan refugees to resettle. We get more Minneapolises. Many more.
It's essentially an evacuation. Trump at least had some conditions to the US withdrawal. This is an unconditional surrender by any definition. Plus a propaganda hey day for the Taliban as it's coincidentally on the 20 year anniversary of the attacks.
This latest Biden balloon ain't floating.
Duh. Of course Islam takes over and goes all in for terrorism. The key for America is tight border controls and strictly limited immigration from the Middle East. This keeps those creeps out. Of course with the current elites in America, more of us will get killed cuz border controls aren’t part of their agenda.
Russ--wrong again
Trump was commander in chief and he let the army tell him what to do. He could have demanded a withdrawal by a certain date. He did not.
MAY 1st
Trump had a date set. It was May 1st. If there had not been so many invalid votes cast, Trump would have won, and the military would have had to comply or stage a 3rd world coup.
As it Trump still got the withdrawal done. A month ago the seal trainers told Joe that we would not withdraw, Since then, they have had a come to Jesus moment and decided that withdrawal was the best thing to do. Trump forced their hand. They are looking to the legislative schedule and 2022. The seal trainers do not want get hurt in the 2022 election. If there was a valid reason for staying, the seal trainers have had Joe utter it. The valid reasons for staying are outweighed by the minuses.
Good job on taking your Adderall. Your disease is progressive and can only momentarily slowed or stopped, but you are doing good on your current dosage.
7:25 PM, read 7:56 PM and then re-read my comment. You can then tell your neighbors you learned something today.
/and betcha this "withdrawal" goes nowhere.
So are you saying the army overruled Trump?
So are you saying the army overruled Trump?
"Senior U.S. Diplomat and special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey repeatedly lied "
A foolish faction does what they want despite elections. They manufacture votes, lie with polling, and lie to elected officials.
You are a funny guy. It matters not, if you are foreign or domestic.
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