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Afghanistan Grows In Wisconsin"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe skies over Sparta have never been as busy as when the Biden administration decided to dispatch 13,000 Afghans, including at least one pedophile, to Wisconsin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--Fxc_3WM0X8\/YV-p_-_lv0I\/AAAAAAAATf8\/f6457D6dLU0eqSgV7C_b9m5O4J9LIin_gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s745\/image_2021-10-07_191630.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"511\" data-original-width=\"745\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--Fxc_3WM0X8\/YV-p_-_lv0I\/AAAAAAAATf8\/f6457D6dLU0eqSgV7C_b9m5O4J9LIin_gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-10-07_191630.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESparta, a small town of less than ten thousand souls, whose claim to fame is being the “Bicycling Capital of America”, could only watch as a population of Afghans outnumbering its own population created a new Afghanistan on the premises of Fort McCoy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of the Afghans at Fort McCoy have a Special Immigrant Visa. Biden left the SIV visa holders \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/10\/bidens-evacuation-was-taliban-human-trafficking-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ebehind in Afghanistan\u003C\/a\u003E. The Afghans who have overrun the Wisconsin base are the ones whom the Taliban, for their own reasons, decided to allow through their checkpoints.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they’re living up to the high cultural standards of the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problems began with the toilets. Then there were issues with the rice, the sexual abuse of young boys, and Afghans simply leaving on their own despite promises of taxpayer cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Afghans were confused and upset by hygiene practices,” a Wall Street Journal article \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-u-s-military-base-needs-to-make-13-000-afghan-evacuees-feel-at-home-11633120015\"\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E. “Every toilet on base was Western style, with a seat and toilet paper. But a number of Afghans are accustomed to restrooms that allow them to squat so they don’t have to physically touch the toilet. It led to some cases of Afghans relieving themselves outside.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis shouldn’t have surprised anyone after two decades in Afghanistan. But political correctness has mostly suppressed accounts of even the most basic facts about the beneficiaries of our great nation building project leaving Americans confused by the behavior of the new arrivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Czech journal article from the Department of Military Hygiene \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/military-medicine.com\/article\/3494-the-hygienic-conditions-in-afghanistan.html\"\u003Enoted that\u003C\/a\u003E Afghan \"people in rural areas were found to defecate almost everywhere according to convenience. It is important to observe that particularly the rural population does not know or does not use toilet paper.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore accurately, Islamic law is held by\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3030041\/Islamic-fatwa-decrees-toilet-paper-halal-Directorate-Religious-Affairs-says-wiping-acceptable.html\"\u003E some authorities\u003C\/a\u003E to ban the use of toilet paper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You should consider very carefully shaking hands during the contact with the local population,” the journal article warned. Unfortunately their local population is now our local population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn account of the toilet practices of the defunct Afghan National Army described how our soldiers were forced to “share their toilet with the ANA, as they had been ordered to do by their commanding officers” to win their “hearts and minds”. Unfortunately “it was the custom of the ANA to wipe themselves with their hands, smear their excrement on the walls of the toilet, and rinse their hands in the sink, which left the sinks reeking.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile great care is taken by Muslims to keep their clothes clean so that they are not “impure” during prayers, bathrooms can be left in a horrifying state because they’re already unclean.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuslim tradition teaches that toilets are possessed by demons and as a result followers of the religion may be reluctant to make contact with them because they have been taught that “Satan plays with the backsides of the sons of Adam”. Islamic teachings encourage squat toilets and forbid men to urinate standing up because Mohammed “only ever used to urinate sitting down.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Kandahar Air Base, the toilets were \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/natos-potty-rules-shut-out-afghans\/article17994076\/\"\u003Esegregated\u003C\/a\u003E because, as an officer noted, “When they use our port-a-potties, they stand on the seats and it causes quite a mess. I think it's just a cultural thing.\" There are a lot of these cultural things. Many of them far worse than the toilets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough when dealing with a group\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/military-medicine.com\/article\/3494-the-hygienic-conditions-in-afghanistan.html\"\u003E where\u003C\/a\u003E “90% of the population are infected by a parasitic disease” and which routinely goes around with fecal matters on its hands, it is an issue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats insist that 2-year-olds should wear masks, yet invite in a population that doesn’t understand the concepts of toilets, toilet paper, or disease transmission.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the toilets were the least of the problems at Fort McCoy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Afghans, who had supposedly just been saved from death, didn’t like American food.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican rice was “swapped for basmati rice. New spices, hummus and dates were added to the chow hall’s menu” which was entirely Halal. Basmati rice is one of the most expensive varieties of rice available, but nothing was too good for the endlessly complaining arrivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Afghans were complaining to reporters about \"hard rice\", personnel at Fort McCoy were complaining about “multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families.\" This wasn’t too surprising since the child marriage in Afghanistan stands at 57%. Like the toilets, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/09\/2-afghan-refugees-already-busted-child-abuse-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eit’s a\u003C\/a\u003E “cultural thing”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile no action was taken on those cases, Bahrullah Noori, an Afghan refugee, was arrested for trying to undress a 14-year-old boy and behaving inappropriately with a 12-year-old boy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMohammad Haroon Imaad was also arrested after his wife accused him of choking her. He had also allegedly threatened to “send her back to Afghanistan where the Taliban could deal with her” and also told her “that nine women have been killed since getting to Fort McCoy and that she would be the tenth.” An estimated 87% of Afghani women face domestic violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the toilets and the child rape, choking women is just another Afghan cultural thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeneral Glen VanHerck however visited Fort McCoy and assured reporters that the enlightened Afghans were much more law-abiding than the racist Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI've done some research and how that compares to populations across the United States,\" VanHerck declared. \"For example, in six weeks in Operation Allies Welcome, in a population of 53,000, there have been eight reported cases of robbery and theft.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVanHerck neglected to Google the statistics for assaulting children and women. Or to note that this isn’t a measure of Afghans having lower crime rates than Americans, but a much lower willingness to report crimes to infidels who don’t resolve problems with the use of Islamic law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"And how long are the Afghans going to be on U.S. military bases?\" the FOX News correspondent asked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We're prepared to be here as long as we need to conduct this mission,\" VanHerck replied. \"We'll be ready if we need to support through the winter months and into the spring.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only there had been the same sort of commitment to getting Americans out of Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget the ‘Forever War’ and get ready for the ‘Forever Refugees’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVanHerck claimed that the Afghans at Fort McCoy \"are appreciative of our support and eager to begin their lives in America.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey're so eager that they're just leaving.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome 700 Afghans have left bases like McCoy despite promises of free taxpayer cash if they just stay and wait to be resettled. The deserting Afghans are upsetting the Biden administration, not because it’s concerned about potential terror threats from the refugees, but because it makes it harder for its refugee resettlement allies to cash in on every single Afghan. And it interferes with their plot to alter demographics in red states by resettling Afghans in the South.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Fort McCoy is near capacity. American soldiers are back to patrolling Afghan streets and trying to win their hearts and minds by asking them to use toilets and not to abuse their women and children. But the scenes of American soldiers trying to keep the peace among Afghans and communicate American values to them are no longer taking place in Kandahar, but in Wisconsin, and in other states with the misfortune of housing Afghans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s almost as if we never actually withdrew from Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans are funding three Halal meals a day for tens of thousands of Afghans, our bases are full of mosques, our soldiers are trying to keep Afghans from killing and abusing each other, and we are on the hook for every dollar in welfare spending lavished on the Afghans while Americans struggle. As the Afghans leave Fort McCoy, the occupation of America will begin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden didn’t withdraw from Afghanistan. He brought Afghanistan to America. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7959434020397122709\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/an-afghanistan-grows-in-wisconsin.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7959434020397122709"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7959434020397122709"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/an-afghanistan-grows-in-wisconsin.html","title":"An Afghanistan Grows In Wisconsin"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--Fxc_3WM0X8\/YV-p_-_lv0I\/AAAAAAAATf8\/f6457D6dLU0eqSgV7C_b9m5O4J9LIin_gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-10-07_191630.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7963555849038349496"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-27T17:13:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-27T17:13:51.969-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terror"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"10% of Biden’s Afghanistan Humanitarian Aid Will Go To Taliban"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Deborah Lyons, the head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, met with Sirajuddin Haqqani, a wanted terrorist with the Haqqani Network, a Taliban component with close ties to Al Qaeda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8GXuS0UvG0A\/YVI0BJSH2TI\/AAAAAAAATe4\/__G5YAgzB0kv3oFvOcVorVqYecYUH9emwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1018\/biden%2Bchecking%2Bphone%2Bat%2Bdover.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"566\" data-original-width=\"1018\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8GXuS0UvG0A\/YVI0BJSH2TI\/AAAAAAAATe4\/__G5YAgzB0kv3oFvOcVorVqYecYUH9emwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Bchecking%2Bphone%2Bat%2Bdover.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELyons had served as Canada's ambassador in Kabul when the Taliban carried out a suicide bombing against a Canadian embassy convoy. Lyons put up a monument to the security contractors who were wounded and killed, but they \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/23\/world\/asia\/nepali-guards-kabul-bombing.html\"\u003Esued\u003C\/a\u003E after being abandoned afterwards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESirajuddin Haqqani is a wanted terrorist with a $10 million FBI reward on his head.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It is impossible to provide humanitarian assistance inside Afghanistan without engaging with the de facto authorities,”  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe de facto authorities being the Islamic terrorists of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe official word is that the Taliban won’t stop the UN humanitarian operations. Whether or not the Taliban will refrain from taxing the UN’s proposed $1.2 billion aid boom is another question.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout waiting for that question to be settled, Biden has not only kicked in $64 million, but the Treasury Department issued a license for Afghanistan aid which states that it, \"will continue to support the continuity of the U.S. government’s important humanitarian-related work in the region\", while claiming that \"we have not reduced sanctions pressure on Taliban leaders or the significant restrictions on their access to the international financial system.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban and most “humanitarian” groups in Afghanistan are using the Islamic Hawala system which enables international finance and massive terrorist fundraising at the same time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd “humanitarian aid” is one of the best ways to fund Islamic terrorists. The Taliban impose an Islamic tithe which American taxpayers will end up paying once the millions in aid arrive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban had set up its Commission for the Arrangement and Control of Companies and Organisations at least over a decade ago. Much like the old Afghan government, it made few distinctions between for-profit companies and non-profit charities, and taxed them both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the United States was in control of Afghanistan, USAID and the UN were exempted from government taxes. That was only fair considering that the vast majority of Afghanistan’s money came from USAID and the UN. But the local Afghan “implementing partners” paid taxes to the government and if they did business in Taliban territory, they also paid off the Jihadists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe don’t know exactly how much taxpayer money went to the Taliban, but one survey found that contractors priced in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2009-08-07\/funding-afghan-taliban\"\u003E20% to 30%\u003C\/a\u003E from their contracts as payoffs. More formally, the Taliban tend to charge a 10% Islamic tax on income and a 2.5% Islamic wealth tax. While this is modest compared to taxes in some western socialist countries, the only service the Taliban provide is not killing you. That doesn’t require much infrastructure, but is really valuable on the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery charity and humanitarian group has denied paying taxes to the Taliban because it’s illegal. All of them, or almost all of them, are likely lying because otherwise they’d be dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban had an extensive and sophisticated tax collection network long before they took Kabul which included all the usual elements of bureaucracy, registration, certificates, and assessments. They \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/asia\/2020\/11\/18\/as-america-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-the-taliban-fight-on+\"\u003Eeven have\u003C\/a\u003E “NGO coordinators” who work with non-profit groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs an Economist article \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/asia\/2020\/11\/18\/as-america-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-the-taliban-fight-on\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Britain’s Foreign Office had to remind ngos not to pay taxes to the Taliban.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban at one point provided a list of non-profits that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/odihpn.org\/magazine\/taliban-policy-and-perceptions-towards-aid-agencies-in-afghanistan\/\"\u003Ehad registered \u003C\/a\u003Ewith their Commission for the Arrangement and Control of Companies and Organisations. The group “included UN agencies, national and international NGOs and human rights organisations” including those that  “rely on funding from a wide range of sources, including both the UN and the US government”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was back in 2013 when the Taliban had far less power and were less intimidating.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a safe bet that nearly every non-profit still operating in Afghanistan is registered with the Commission, and was probably registered in previous years, and is paying off the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if the UN succeeds in exempting its operations from taxes, the “implementing partners”, local Afghan groups, will still pay taxes to the Taliban. And their employees and those of the groups they fund will certainly be taxed. If the United States funds doctors and clinics, they will be taxed (as they were before the fall of Kabul), if we fund teachers, they will pay taxes to the Taliban, and so will every beneficiary of our “humanitarian aid”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We can maintain a humanitarian commitment to... the Afghan people in ways that do not have any funding or assistance pass through the coffers of a central government,\" Ned Price, Biden’s State Department spokesman, falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrice knows that’s a lie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if the humanitarian aid doesn’t initially pass through the Taliban’s coffers, it will inevitably end up there as it works its way through Afghanistan. Even if we just shipped food and medicines, the Taliban will take its ‘cut’ of the medicine and food as they used to before. They will then be able to dispense it to their supporters or resell it on the black market. Both are common practices for Islamic terrorist groups like the Houthis in Yemen or Hamas in Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why it’s common for there to be a “humanitarian crisis” in terrorist hellholes like Yemen or Gaza. No matter how much aid is sent in, the crisis never goes away because the terrorists not only steal the aid, they deliberately create the crises so that they have more aid to steal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to stop the crisis is to either kill the terrorists or at least stop sending them aid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 10% in the headline is a crude estimate. Any money or aid dispatched to Afghanistan will resonate back and forth through the economy with the Taliban taking a cut at every end. And the final amount will be a whole lot more than the formal Islamic tithe which the Taliban impose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no way to provide humanitarian aid to a terrorist state without funding its regime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that will mean difficult moral choices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Great Famine struck Russia as a result of Communist collectivism, the United States undertook a massive aid effort, sending $20 million (a quarter million in today’s dollars) in food aid. The noble effort saved millions, and bailed out the Bolshevik regime which showed no gratitude and went on to kill millions anyway. Then it built up a massive nuclear program while plotting to destroy the United States and murder hundred of millions of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one wants to deny aid to suffering people, but when the cause of the suffering is a genocidal enemy regime, subsidizing it only makes things worse. Refusing to provide aid or normalize economic relations with the Soviet Union might have saved far more lives in the long run.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban won because many Afghans decided to support them or not to resist them. That is a choice that they will have to live with and learn to regret if anything is going to change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProviding aid to Afghanistan will bail out the Taliban. The more aid we send to Afghanistan, the more powerful, the more secure, and the more aggressive the Taliban’s ambitions will grow. The harder the Taliban have to work to maintain control over Afghanistan, the less scope they will have for terrorism abroad. The more aid we send, the broader the Taliban’s horizons will grow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Cory Booker foolishly argued that aid is a “strategic leverage that we have over the Taliban.” No, it’s strategic leverage that the Taliban have over us as the Biden administration and the UN negotiate with the terrorists over the right to bail out their vicious regime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden kept falsely claiming that he had to get out of Afghanistan because we couldn’t keep spending money on the failed state. Yet he began sending more money to Afghanistan before all of the Americans he abandoned behind enemy lines had even been evacuated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter leaving massive caches of weapons and vehicles for the Taliban to enjoy, Biden is dispatching another $64 million, of which millions will likely end up in the hands of the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban will impose their Islamic tithe on the aid that Biden sends to Afghanistan. And taxpayers will be the ones paying the tithe to support the Taliban’s Jihad against non-Muslims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans aren’t just paying taxes to the government, they’re paying them to the Taliban.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7963555849038349496\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/10-of-bidens-afghanistan-humanitarian.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7963555849038349496"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7963555849038349496"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/10-of-bidens-afghanistan-humanitarian.html","title":"10% of Biden’s Afghanistan Humanitarian Aid Will Go To Taliban"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8GXuS0UvG0A\/YVI0BJSH2TI\/AAAAAAAATe4\/__G5YAgzB0kv3oFvOcVorVqYecYUH9emwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Bchecking%2Bphone%2Bat%2Bdover.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4617009051821576760"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-05T04:03:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-05T04:03:00.405-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terror"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Afghanistan After America"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"On September 27, 1996, the State Department was very surprised when the Taliban took Kabul. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of the official reports stated that the Taliban were not likely to take the capital. A lone memo, which never reached Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, warned it could happen, but was mostly ignored until nine days later when the Taliban “unexpectedly” marched into the city.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NyloSBPKyUU\/YTJhaXhieoI\/AAAAAAAATcw\/I2wVOD5A6C8jq8OdNVJjtJkWqxDVo0W8QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s932\/astan%2Bframe.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"630\" data-original-width=\"932\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NyloSBPKyUU\/YTJhaXhieoI\/AAAAAAAATcw\/I2wVOD5A6C8jq8OdNVJjtJkWqxDVo0W8QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/astan%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBiden and his allies claimed that no one could have anticipated that the Taliban would take Afghanistan in 11 days. As the Washington Post recently noted, “On Sept. 27, 1996, Taliban forces captured Kabul overnight, flooding in from all directions after a 15-day sweep of the country. (In August 2021, it would take 10 days.)“ Were Biden and Milley really that surprised by those extra 4 or 5 days (depending on how you do the math) that they didn’t see it coming?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1996, the United Nations, which was supposed to bring peace to Afghanistan, fled. President Najibullah, who had lost the last of his Soviet support when the USSR fell apart, stayed at the UN compound. He fought the Taliban Jihadists who came for him before they hung and castrated him. The State Department celebrated the Taliban win and began its outreach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlyn Davies, Obama's former Ambassador to Thailand, said back then \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/10\/23\/world\/state-dept-becomes-cooler-to-the-new-rulers-of-kabul.html\"\u003Ethat \u003C\/a\u003Ehe hoped the \"new authorities in Kabul will move quickly to restore order and security and to form a representative interim government that can begin the process of reconciliation nationwide.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavies also claimed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2001\/11\/05\/how-afghanistan-went-unlisted-as-terrorist-sponsor\/903bfb89-5877-4e48-87c6-4d76d906fbac\/\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E he saw \"nothing objectionable\" about the Taliban imposing Islamic law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Davies, a Biden supporter and  formerly an Elizabeth Warren supporter because \"Warren will rebuild American leadership by ending our endless wars\", works for former Secretary of State Madeline Albright's ASG consulting group and has not offered any comments on Afghanistan.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Clinton administration asked the Taliban to send an envoy to D.C. and pleaded with the Jihadists to accept an American envoy. It was the Taliban who turned Bill Clinton down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2021, history repeated itself again with an incompetent Democrat administration caught by surprise at the speed of the Taliban’s victory before trying to come to terms with the Jihadists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Bill Clinton, Biden is learning the same old lesson the hard way without actually learning it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe State Department, which sent an emissary to urge the collapsing Afghan government to come to terms with the Taliban and form an inclusive government in the 90s, was playing the same dumb game now. A generation later the State Department hadn’t learned a damn thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban won in 2021 for the same reason that they had won in 1996. The Afghan government had lost its main backer and was replaced by the Pakistani-backed Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was set once Pakistan made them its final choice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Taliban performed better in 2021 than in 1996, it’s because China is also backing them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe American-Pakistani alliance of 1996 has been replaced by a Chinese-Pakistani alliance. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfghanistan is a tribal region of quarreling ethnic and religious groups, warlords, druglords, elders, and gunmen. For the last two generations it’s been ruled by whichever faction assembles enough backing from a foreign power to maintain control over the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETemporarily.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForeign policy consists of the different sides jockeying for the support of the United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and anyone interested enough to provide money and guns.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban have not “taken” Afghanistan. They’ve reached agreements with various factions, from the druglords to tribal leaders and warlords, based on their foreign support and momentum. Those agreements will collapse when the Taliban start to run into trouble.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir victories in 1996 and 2021 were partly achieved by foreign Jihadis fighting for them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut those Jihadis are a double-edged sword. The Taliban’s deal with Al Qaeda helped it maintain power, but after September 11, led to their overthrow by the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban of 2021 will have to decide whether they need the foreign fighters more than they fear the United States. Considering Biden’s humiliating retreat, the Taliban are unlikely to make a different choice than the one they made about Al Qaeda during the Clinton administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Afghan government that we backed was a phantom. So is the Taliban regime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans think of government as an organized and pervasive force that extends its dominion over all its territories. Afghan governments are more like bandits, using fighters to intimidate the locals, and collect protection money through their officials. An Afghan government is just a band of fighters that have transitioned from roving bandits to stationary bandits by seizing cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Biden, the Taliban controlled the rural areas, while the Afghan government held the cities. As the withdrawal was announced, the Taliban formed alliances, swept across provinces, and claimed the cities not, mostly by firepower, but by cutting deals with key Afghan leaders.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s various allies, from the Pakistanis, Qataris, the Iranians, and the Chinese, to Al Qaeda and the druglords, got what they wanted by forcing the United States out of Afghanistan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what they’re going to want now are incompatible things. China and Pakistan want stability and the opportunity to exploit Afghanistan’s mineral riches and geographic location for trade. Al Qaeda and various foreign Jihadis want to set up terrorist training camps and fight infidels. Some of them are likely to target China as Jihadis operating in Pakistan have already done.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s state sponsors want to reduce the flow of drugs, but opium is the only functional part of Afghanistan’s economy: especially now that the United States and its allies are gone. The Taliban formerly opposed opium, but if they do it again, they’ll fund their own opposition. If they try to restrain the foreign Jihadis who helped them take Afghanistan, they’ll face a civil war. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if Biden refrains from backing the opposition to the Taliban, India isn’t likely to be as forgiving. Other countries and international players will find their own reasons to do the same. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s State Department will be forced to acknowledge, even faster than Clinton’s diplomats, that any promises that the Taliban make are worthless. Taliban spokesmen have learned to tell liberals what they want to hear, but don’t actually speak for the leadership. Nor do they speak for the various factions who actually make up the Taliban power on the ground. Or their backers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStability is not in Afghanistan’s future. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, like most Jihadis, are players in someone else’s chess game. Islamic terrorist groups, like their Marxist counterparts, have state backers and wealthy funders behind them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat looks like a stunning victory is more often the result of backroom deals. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuslim Jihadis claim a fearsome reputation, but routinely bow out of fights when the odds aren’t on their side, when they aren’t feeling motivated, or are paid off. They prefer to win battles by treachery and subterfuge as they have done for over a thousand years since Mohammed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans are used to the idea of standing, fighting, and dying for their country. But fighters in tribal cultures are more nomadic. They don’t stand and fight, they appear and disappear, as we saw in Afghanistan and Iraq. They strike when they sense weakness and flee when they feel strength. Biden showed weakness, so did the Afghan government, and the rest is history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban will impose unfiltered Islamic law, but whether girls are allowed to go to school and women are permitted to leave the house matters very little to the power players. Those important enough will be able to do what the elites of Muslim countries always do, send their sons and daughters to cavort in Beverly Hills and the French Riviera, while poorer girls are beaten, enslaved, and executed for minor offenses like meeting the eye of a strange man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be burkas for millions of Afghan women, but the daughters of key leaders who cut deals with the Taliban will wear bikinis on the beaches of the Atlantic and the Pacific.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration cares as much about the rights of women as the Clinton administration which was willing to embrace the Taliban and endorse their oppressive Islamic law. It was only when the Taliban turned down the Clintons that they rediscovered an interest in feminism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECount on the Biden administration and Democrats to follow the same corrupt road out of Kabul.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfghanistan will go on being what it was all along, a tribal wasteland run by bandits, all of whom swear by Allah, but only some of whom kill women for not wearing burkas, who get their money and guns from various foreign interests and serve them until they inevitably betray them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban didn’t win a great victory. They assembled a house of cards coalition just as they did before. That house of cards will begin collapsing because Afghanistan is not a country and it cannot be ruled by any government, only corrupted, robbed, and terrorized in Allah’s name.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4617009051821576760\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/afghanistan-after-america.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4617009051821576760"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4617009051821576760"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/afghanistan-after-america.html","title":"Afghanistan After America"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NyloSBPKyUU\/YTJhaXhieoI\/AAAAAAAATcw\/I2wVOD5A6C8jq8OdNVJjtJkWqxDVo0W8QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/astan%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4935710880947570744"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-01T14:58:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-01T14:58:29.805-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"On August 14, Secretary of State Blinken spoke with Afghanistan’s former president and promised that the Biden administration would provide a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aahmady\/status\/1427883009164955649\"\u003Ebulk shipment\u003C\/a\u003E of dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next day Kabul fell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn that same call, Afghanistan’s former leader \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aahmady\/status\/1429058195364925440\"\u003Ehad agreed\u003C\/a\u003E to surrender power to the Taliban. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BoLtBFgyttM\/YS_NR7JljPI\/AAAAAAAATcc\/uSVjz5EuFt8mrwLw_aT2ld9XnD3D46wLwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1004\/image_2021-09-01_115815.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"727\" data-original-width=\"1004\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BoLtBFgyttM\/YS_NR7JljPI\/AAAAAAAATcc\/uSVjz5EuFt8mrwLw_aT2ld9XnD3D46wLwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-09-01_115815.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Biden administration had effectively agreed to provide a massive infusion of cash to the Taliban. But the final deal fell through, the Afghan government fled, and the Taliban took Kabul.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bulk shipment of dollars never did arrive. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s diplomats scrambled to evacuate from Kabul. Ajmal Ahmady, the governor of DAB, Afghanistan's central bank, already had a ticket and headed to the airport. He managed to get on a military plane.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then he's tweeted that he was warned that the Taliban had come looking for him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban were hoping to get their hands on Afghanistan’s money, but much of it is in the United States. The most tangible part of Afghanistan’s assets, $1.3 billion in gold, is sitting in downtown Manhattan, a little bit south of Ground Zero, in the vaults of the Federal Reserve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf there were any justice, that money would be used to compensate the police officers, firefighters, and workers who died on that day or later on from ailments related to 9\/11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, all the Taliban have to do is fly into JFK, take an Uber to 33 Liberty Street, and ask to be taken down to the basement to see all the bars of gold. And even in Biden’s America and De Blasio’s New York City, they might have trouble walking away with over a billion in gold bars. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot unless they trade their camos and kameezes for Black Lives Matter t-shirts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United States did plenty of dumb things in Afghanistan, but it kept the gold locked up in the basement vaults and $3.1 billion of DAB’s assets went into U.S. Treasury bills and bonds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhmady\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aahmady\/status\/1427883012348424192\"\u003E estimates \u003C\/a\u003Ethat $7 billion of DAB's assets are being held by the Federal Reserve which includes the gold, the bills and bonds, $300 million in cash, and another $2.4 billion in World Bank funds for aiding developing countries. There’s also $700 million at the Bank for International Settlements and another $1.3 billion in international accounts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose are likely being held in Turkey which is an Islamist dictatorship friendly to the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban would like some or all of that money. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem is that while the Taliban expected to find vaults full of gold and cash, Afghanistan had been plugged into the international finance system in which access to cash depends on either great internal wealth or good international relations. The Taliban have neither.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo the extent that the Taliban have been behaving themselves, at least in Kabul, it’s because they want to lay claim to the stream of international wealth that used to flow into Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after Kabul fell, the International Monetary Fund was supposed to disburse $460 million in Special Drawing Rights to Afghanistan, but that, like all the other international funding mechanisms that the Taliban wanted to lay claim to, was blocked. While the Biden administration’s diplomats and national security people had made a complete hash of the withdrawal, the treasury people proved to be surprisingly on top of cutting off Taliban cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban still control border crossings and they’ll be able to take advantage of Chinese money, but that’s a long way from the cash they need to run any kind of functional country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParadoxically, we were the single biggest revenue source for the Taliban’s money machine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne expert \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/publications\/the-world-today\/2021-08\/afghanistan-money-can-be-milk-taliban-moderation\"\u003Eestimated\u003C\/a\u003E that at the peak of Obama and Biden's Afghanistan surge, \"the Taliban’s ‘taxes’ on truckers supplying NATO likely even surpassed the Taliban’s income from drugs, being tens of millions of dollars at least, maybe up to $100 million annually.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike a lot of failed states, remittances from Afghans living overseas made up 4% of their GDP. Last year that amounted to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2021-08-22\/taliban-finances-collapse\"\u003E$788 million\u003C\/a\u003E. Some of that money is being blocked. For now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout an ongoing war, the money from both NATO and the international financiers of the Jihad will stop flowing. Chinese state businesses won’t allow the Taliban to rob them the way that they looted NATO and while drugs are big money, they’re no substitute for an economy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask Venezuela and Iran. Or Detroit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s options are limited. They've appointed Mohammad Idris, a previously unknown Taliban official, to head the central bank. Afghanistan’s currency is imploding and dollarization without dollars doesn’t work so well. Much of Afghanistan’s economy, which was propped up by foreign aid, will collapse leaving behind subsistence farming, opium, and smuggling rackets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe arms and vehicles looted from the United States will be sold off to fellow Jihadists for a one-time cash infusion because there’ll be no more armored vehicles and drones handed out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore 9\/11, Afghanistan was facing drought and famine under the Taliban. The United States campaign not only toppled the Taliban, but saved parts of the country from starvation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Taliban do have two key assets: people and trouble.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose are the same assets held by Jihadists around the world from Hamas in Gaza to the Houthis in Yemen. The Taliban don’t care if portions of the population, especially non-Pashtuns and non-Sunni Muslims suffer, but they know that we do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven now there’s talk about how to continue providing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. And the flow of humanitarian aid to a population in a terrorist area means funding terrorists. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond inflicting misery on Afghans, the Taliban have a variety of options for causing trouble for their enemies. They can speed the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe and also boost the opium business and demand money to “fight drug trafficking” in order to shut it down. (This scam is common in both South America and Southeast Asia, and helps fund the drug trade in the name of fighting it as corrupt politicians cash in on both the drug and anti-drug businesses.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd their biggest short-term asset are the Afghans and Americans trapped in Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhatever agreements the Biden administration reached with the Taliban to allow it to operate and to coordinate on security arrangements were almost certainly financial. Once the United States leaves, the Taliban will be able to extract money for every single Afghan who leaves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what the Taliban really want is all that money sitting in the Federal Reserve. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere have been precedents for terror states toppling legitimate governments and leaving their wealth in the hands of the United States. From the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union to the Shiite Islamists of Iran, Democrats eventually turned over the money to the red-green terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s little doubt that the Taliban will get their hands on much of the money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina, Russia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Qatar will likely push to legitimize the Taliban in international forums. The Biden administration will make a token show of resistance. As the international governance bodies topple and humanitarian groups cry about famine, the money pipeline will reopen. And even though there won’t be a single American soldier in Afghanistan, Biden will go on funding the Taliban long after the withdrawal is wholly complete.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe $7 billion will end up being another down payment in the funding of Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe day before Kabul fell, Biden nearly allowed a massive bundle of pallets of dollars to be shipped to Afghanistan. He did so knowing that the money was destined for a Taliban regime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis cash shipment to the Taliban only fell apart because the Afghan government did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow long will it be until Biden is shipping money to the Taliban? He may already be doing it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,\" Biden \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/point\/biden-after-911-it-would-be-good-time-send-check-daniel-greenfield\"\u003Eproposed\u003C\/a\u003E after September 11. His previous administration illegally shipped $1.7 billion in pallets of cash to Iran. The question isn’t whether Biden will fund the Taliban, but when.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECreating a hostage situation is, as Obama already discovered, a convenient pretext for funding Islamic terrorists. Biden has created a massive hostage crisis in Afghanistan. What better way could there be to force the United States to fund our worst enemies once again? \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4935710880947570744\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/biden-tried-to-send-pallets-of-cash-to.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4935710880947570744"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4935710880947570744"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/biden-tried-to-send-pallets-of-cash-to.html","title":"Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BoLtBFgyttM\/YS_NR7JljPI\/AAAAAAAATcc\/uSVjz5EuFt8mrwLw_aT2ld9XnD3D46wLwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-09-01_115815.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1326371578441234633"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-31T04:16:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-31T04:16:21.378-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Impeach Biden"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When Kabul fell, the Taliban offered the Biden administration a deal. Either the United States could control the city until August 31, the terror group’s deadline, or the Taliban would.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3qKTC2lIk7Q\/YS3lOtMBYXI\/AAAAAAAATcU\/WHBCoPmvJFMvbtK57WjVz3ZDM-6zD3jXwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1018\/biden%2Bchecking%2Bphone%2Bat%2Bdover.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"566\" data-original-width=\"1018\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3qKTC2lIk7Q\/YS3lOtMBYXI\/AAAAAAAATcU\/WHBCoPmvJFMvbtK57WjVz3ZDM-6zD3jXwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Bchecking%2Bphone%2Bat%2Bdover.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Taliban may have been testing Biden, wary of a direct military confrontation with a large concentration of American forces, but if so they quickly learned that they had little to worry about. Instead of maintaining control over Kabul so that Americans could be speedily evacuated, the Biden administration and its cronies turned over the city to the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Taliban turned to their most professional and deadliest assets. The Haqqani Network had been closely allied with Al Qaeda and picked up many of its tricks. Its commanders understood urban warfare, excelled at suicide and truck bombings, and had expert units whose commandos had been trained in Pakistan by the terror regime’s ISI secret agents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban officially named Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani to head security in Kabul. The Haqqani Jihadist figure had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States. Not long after the Biden administration made its deal with the devil, a designated foreign terrorist group and a specially designated terrorist controlled access for American refugees fleeing to Kabul’s airport.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration made no protest. It did not complain that a terror group founded by one of Osama bin Laden’s mentors which had repeatedly targeted American soldiers with suicide bomb attacks, including the murder of a colonel and two lieutenant colonels by a car bomber, a truck bomb that wounded 77 American soldiers in a 9\/11 anniversary attack on a base, and a truck bombing attack on another base, was “coordinating security” for Kabul airport.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden had been given the opportunity to create a secure escape route for American civilians escaping Afghanistan and to keep American soldiers safe in the city. Instead he set them up to be massacred by turning security in Kabul and around its airport over to a terrorist group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while Biden falsely claimed at a press conference that Afghanistan would be nothing like Kabul, military and intelligence briefings had already prepared him for much worse. If someone had to take the PR hit for chasing away refugees and a botched evacuation, Biden preferred that the Taliban play the bad guys while he disavowed all responsibility. He didn’t care how many Americans died as long as he maintained plausible deniability to cover up their deaths.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s assumption that the Taliban could be trusted to do his dirty work without wanting anything in return except the end of our presence in Afghanistan was treasonously dumb.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama had assumed that the Muslim Brotherhood could be trusted in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. The attacks of September 11, 2012, climaxing in the Benghazi massacre, proved him wrong. Biden’s own Benghazi began the same way when he turned over power to Islamists while believing that they would be satisfied with just taking over a country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban had turned over the problem of Kabul airport to the Haqqani Network. Like Biden, the Taliban wanted plausible deniability for whatever might happen around the site. The Haqqani Network was part of the Taliban, yet the United States had set the unfortunate precedent of designating the Haqqanis, but not the Taliban, as a foreign terrorist organization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat legal distinction had provided both the United States and the Taliban with plausible deniability over the years. The Haqqanis would carry out terrorist attacks while the United States could still negotiate with the Taliban without being accused of “negotiating with terrorists”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Taliban turned over the checkpoints and security around Kabul airport to the Haqqani network, they were sending a clear signal that they were washing their hands of any attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Biden administration, which had made the deal with the devil, could not hold the Taliban accountable without exposing its own complicity in this setup. The rest was all but inevitable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban checkpoints failed to hold back the crowds from the airport even with bouts of occasional brutality. The Jihadists manning them had little interest in screening paperwork on behalf of the Kabul embassy, as Biden expected them to, instead they searched for Afghans on their lists. Once the State Department handed the Taliban its lists of approved Americans and Afghans, their real job of finding and detaining key officials and other figures became easier.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans continued to have trouble reaching the airport even while Biden and his cronies falsely claimed that there could be no problems with Al Qaeda’s allies running checkpoints.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThings got worse from there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EISIS-K's leader, Shahab al-Muhajir, was a former Haqqani commander. The Islamic State affiliate had recruited heavily among the Taliban and, in particular the Haqqani Network.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden had put America’s worst enemies in charge of security around Kabul airport.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGen. Frank McKenzie, who had originally met with Taliban officials to hear their offer to take Kabul, went on bragging that, \"we use the Taliban as a tool to protect us as much as possible.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho was using whom became obvious when an ISIS-K suicide bomber and gunmen who had gotten past the Haqqani checkpoints murdered 13 American military personnel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIncluding eleven of McKenzie’s marines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey didn’t have to die. And the entire botched evacuation didn’t have to play out this way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden made numerous mistakes that led to the fall of Afghanistan, including the abandonment of Bagram Air Base, which not only cut off a secure evacuation route, but freed countless Jihadis, some of whom may have even taken part in the Kabul airport attack. But the decision to turn over Kabul to the Taliban, and to turn over security around Kabul airport to allies of Al Qaeda whom the United States had designated as terrorists is nothing short of treasonous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E13 American military personnel paid in blood for Biden’s treason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats made a point of impeaching President Trump twice. In 1787, Senator William Blount became the first politician impeached over a plot to help the British take over Florida and Louisiana. Impeachment in the Constitution begins with “treason”, continues with “bribery”, and then finally with “high Crimes and Misdemeanors“. Section 3 defines treason only as “levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to think of a clearer definition of aid and comfort than the massive amount of armaments that the Taliban and its Jihadists have picked up in Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden can claim that all of that was unintentional. But turning over Kabul to the Taliban at a time when thousands of Americans sheltered there was no accident. Nor was shrugging when the Taliban handed over access to Kabul airport to the Haqqani Network which is designated as a foreign terrorist organization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese were treasonous acts whose foreseeable consequences are entirely his responsibility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Jihadists levied war against American military forces with the attack at Kabul airport.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s treason led to the murder of 13 American military personnel. His aid and comfort to the enemy, his adherence to the Taliban at the expense of American soldiers and civilians led to the massacre of Americans. And he can and should be impeached for his treasonous crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoe Biden’s treasonous decision to entrust American lives and security to the enemy was not committed out of any pure motive, but to protect his own political career. After decades of appeasing Islamic terrorists, Biden was only doing what came naturally to him. And he had either learned nothing from Benghazi or he simply did not care about the risk to Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Blount and later Burr, Biden, the third ‘B’ in the bunch, committed treason out of self-interest, throwing in with America’s enemies because he thought it would profit him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat does not lessen his treason. It worsens it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s original traitors, men like Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, were motivated by greed, pride, and wounded egos. They did not believe in anything except themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s treason is that of a career politician who will sacrifice anyone for his own sake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Trump was impeached over Ukraine, yet the impeachers could not point to a single American who had died in that country. 13 Americans have died in Afghanistan. The parents of some of these fallen men and women have come forward to demand justice. They deserve it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats currently control the Senate and the House. But that does not excuse Republicans from the need to confront Biden and hold him accountable by calling for impeachment anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven a failed effort will keep this issue alive and prevent the dead from being forgotten.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe all saw Biden checking his watch at Dover while waiting for the transfer of the men and women he killed to be complete. The dead Americans are no more to him than the Afghans whose deaths he had falsely dismissed as having happened, “four or five days ago.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter another four or five days, Biden hopes that the dead Americans will be forgotten.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden is counting on Americans to have as bad a memory as he does. And if Republicans remain silent, pivoting to the next scandal or talking point, he will have been proven right.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Americans murdered and betrayed by Biden deserve justice. They deserve to see the question of his impeachment raised and debated. And America’s honor deserves it too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe world must not think that what it saw in Kabul represents a new American normal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would be devastating to our national security and to our honor. The world must know that what happened was a crime. And that Americans will work to hold the criminal accountable.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1326371578441234633\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/08\/impeach-biden.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1326371578441234633"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1326371578441234633"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/08\/impeach-biden.html","title":"Impeach Biden"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3qKTC2lIk7Q\/YS3lOtMBYXI\/AAAAAAAATcU\/WHBCoPmvJFMvbtK57WjVz3ZDM-6zD3jXwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Bchecking%2Bphone%2Bat%2Bdover.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}}]}});