https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/the-imminent-inevitable-taliban-victory/#slide-1
Twenty years, and we are still where we were on September 10, 2001.
A ccountability for the Capitol rioters is not enough, we’re told. Progressives insist there must be a national reckoning for the January 6 “insurrection” because punishing the rioters is insufficient to defeat the real enemy — white supremacism and its endorsement of terrorism when necessary to achieve its vision for society.
It is a cartoon depiction of reality. No belief system is held in more disdain in the United States than white supremacism. To most of us, it is a perversion of the core conviction that we are all created in God’s image, all equal in human dignity, and must thus all be equal in the eyes of the law. For the Left, though, white supremacism is a convenient abstraction; one that gives opportunists the foundation needed to build a “systemic racism” dystopia, their path to influence and profit.
What is remarkable, then, is the perdurable blindness of progressives to a much more threatening breed of ideologically driven violence in furtherance of a supremacist, incorrigibly discriminatory vision for society. Not white supremacism but sharia supremacism. They’ve never wanted to acknowledge it, much less come to grips with it.
As a result, the inevitable is coming to pass, in all the horror some of us have long warned about. The Taliban are right on schedule in their quest to retake Afghanistan by September 11, the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities executed by al-Qaeda — a jihadist network to which the Taliban knowingly and willfully gave sanctuary as it plotted against, and repeatedly attacked, the United States.
I’ve noted that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are poised, by the anniversary date, to be as strong as they were in the three years leading up to 9/11 — during which, with its safe havens assured by the sharia-supremacist regime, the jihadist network bombed U.S. embassies in eastern Africa and nearly sank a U.S. Navy destroyer. Actually, I understated the matter. As they swallow up more provinces by the day, the Taliban are capturing northern regions that they did not rule when last in charge. It is all part of a longstanding plan to take over Afghanistan while U.S. forces are still a retreating presence, thus projecting the image of the Taliban chasing out a humiliated enemy — an image President Biden seems even more anxious to mint than was President Trump.