EDITORIAL: Known terrorists are now running Afghanistan

President Joe Biden’s actions successful Afghanistan person accrued our country’s vulnerability to aboriginal panic attacks. Just look astatine its caller government.

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced the leaders of the caller interim authorities of Afghanistan. Interim Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund faces sanctions from the UN. The U.S. authorities has designated the Haqqani web arsenic a violent group. Two of its members are portion of the caller government. The FBI has a $10 cardinal bounty connected caller acting interior curate Sirajuddin Haqqani. The FBI’s bounty connected Khalil Haqqani, present acting curate for refugees, is $5 million.

The 5 Taliban prisoners erstwhile president Barack Obama traded for deserter Bowe Bergdahl are each successful enactment too. Four are successful the nationalist government, including roles arsenic acting quality manager and acting curate of accusation and culture. The 5th is simply a provincial governor.

This didn’t beryllium good with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“Despite professing that a caller authorities would beryllium inclusive, the announced database of names consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban oregon their adjacent associates, and nary women,” helium said Wednesday.

One mightiness person the thought the beingness of truthful galore known and wanted terrorists would person topped Mr. Blinken’s database of concerns, not the deficiency of sex diversity. Women volition beryllium fortunate to person basal quality rights, similar going extracurricular without a burqa oregon continuing their education, fto unsocial serving successful government. On Wednesday, Taliban members used whips to subdue women who were protesting the caller government.

Those abuses whitethorn not interest immoderate Americans. But the Taliban’s increasing spot isn’t conscionable a menace to the Americans inactive stranded successful Afghanistan.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he’s waiting to spot “whether oregon not al-Qaeda has the quality to regenerate successful Afghanistan.”

“The Taliban is not known for trying to contradict abstraction to its militant partners successful the country, with the objection of ISIS-K, which is their rival,” Michael Kugelman, lawman manager for South Asia astatine the Wilson Center, said to CNBC. He noted the Haqqani network, which has leaders successful the caller government, “has been implicated successful immoderate of the astir wide casualty horrific violent attacks successful Afghanistan.”

A caller Trafalgar poll recovered that Americans overwhelmingly deliberation that Mr. Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal made it much apt the state volition spot different 9/11-style attack. The borderline was 56.8 percent to 19.5 percent.

As the caller authorities shows, they’re correct.