Whether botched or planned, Biden has made ISIS the 12th largest military on the globe with the slew of weapons of mass destruction left behind in the US exit of Afghanistan.
Libertarian commentators are applauding the end of this war of conquest, as should all people in their right mind. That the method of exit also armed a murderous group with state-of-the-art weaponry befitting a nation-state seems to have gone largely unnoticed.
Thousands of times greater than the Iran-Contra scandal, resident Biden has given terrorists more weapons of mass destruction than most nation-states would ever dream of possessing. ISIS is now larger than Brazil and just behind Italy in terms of military acquisitions in 2021. A less conservative and possibly more realistic estimate might rank ISIS acquisitions at #3, or just behind China.
Leftest War Crimes are Not Crimes
For leftists, creating a terrorist military nation-state whole-cloth in the middle of Afghanistan is A-OK. In fact, by the time the smoke clears, the corporate media will be framing it as a virtue. Gone will be the memory that preventing the very thing that just occurred was the excuse for going to war in the first place.
If the Biden madministration had tried to accomplish this massive arming of terrorists directly, the American people could properly convict them of war crimes. But the lying narrative of noble intentions will be shouted from the electronic rooftops and jammed into the news feeds of every screen.
On the other hand, one jaywalking conservative is enough to burst the aortae of every virtue-signaling leftist in the world.
If “war is the health of the state,” as Murray Rothbard surmised, the state is to be congratulated for having artificially created a formidable foe against which to wage war and remain healthy.
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I would need to see your argument that Taliban = ISIS. I think they are enemies of one another.