Graham Makes A Chilling Prediction About Afghanistan
During an interview with the BBC, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham made a chilling prediction that the US will be forced back into Afghanistan. This time, the threat will be so much worse thanks to Biden.
“Whether you like Trump or not, whether you believe it’s Trump’s fault or Biden’s fault, here’s where we are at as a world: the Taliban are not reformed, they’re not new. They have a view of the world out of sync with modern times,” Graham said. “They are going to impose a lifestyle on the Afghan people that I think is going to make all of us sick to our stomach.”
“But most importantly, they are going to give safe haven to al Qaeda, who has ambitions to drive us out of the Middle East 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.
Biden left United States' munition and weaponry in Afghanistan for the Taliban to use in combat. Whether that was intentional or not, it raises the danger for future troops if the US does return—Which is what Graham predicts:
“We’ll have to. We’ll have to because the threat will be so large. Why did we go back to Syria and Iraq? Why do we have 5,000 troops in Iraq today? Because of the caliphate rising, projecting force outside of Iraq, killing Americans, killing the French, attacking the British,” Graham said. “So, yes, it will be a caldron for radical Islamic behavior. You cannot deal with this over the horizon.”
“Here’s my solution: help the resistance in the Panjshir Valley. The Taliban will not be able to govern Afghanistan, they’re hated by the Afghan people,” Graham said. “What’s going to happen over time is you’re going to see the resistance rise, ISIS will come after the Taliban large, and the entire country is going to fracture in the next year creating a perfect storm for Western interests to be attacked. You can do one of two things. You can say that’s no longer my problem and let it build and get hit, or hit them before they hit you.”
The Taliban claimed on Monday to have squashed the resistance in the Panjshir Valley, the final region in Afghanistan that the Taliban had yet to control. The terror group on Tuesday named a new government in Afghanistan, installing men with terrorist ties to top posts. Afghanistan’s new interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is on the U.S. terror watch list.