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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"2"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4164337123683392522"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-10T00:56:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-10T00:56:17.936-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Taliban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Over two decades the United States and its international partners poured billions in humanitarian aid into Afghanistan. Much of that aid went into the pockets of the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEheUBhczlSQAtSicYLKXaUGgBeum9Daz8CisHEU18uVqdV2xLn8GFB7oIqOeJunbt1NyDV6_aJia9LxEdoxpAvHC1cAP84NMlurezkYXlK3w4j8PAsGaTaHRGfPxYe7eApi8hzXX0UCfTJMSsl58X6pli3cjrfyqgp4m_np5Kq0T7PDQH4FLbw\/s792\/taliban%20cnn.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"792\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEheUBhczlSQAtSicYLKXaUGgBeum9Daz8CisHEU18uVqdV2xLn8GFB7oIqOeJunbt1NyDV6_aJia9LxEdoxpAvHC1cAP84NMlurezkYXlK3w4j8PAsGaTaHRGfPxYe7eApi8hzXX0UCfTJMSsl58X6pli3cjrfyqgp4m_np5Kq0T7PDQH4FLbw\/s320\/taliban%20cnn.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAfter Biden’s retreat, the Taliban have consolidated control over Afghanistan. And over all the hungry children, the girls deprived of an education, and all the other sob stories that kept a river of private charity and taxpayer money flowing into a hellhole in which nothing ever got better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more things change, the more they stay the same.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt an aid conference hosted by the UN, the UK, Germany and the Islamic terror state of Qatar, which backs the Taliban, $2.4 billion was raised for Afghanistan. The hosts had demanded over $4.4 billion which would have been the largest amount ever raised for any nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration kicked in another $204 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's on top of the $782 million in \"humanitarian aid\" allocated to Afghanistan last year since the Taliban took over. This year, Biden signed an executive order allocating $3.5 billion of the Afghan assets held in the Federal Reserve for the same purpose. But even not counting those funds, Biden has dedicated $986 million to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money and nearly $4.5 billion in total funds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration keeps insisting that the money won’t go to the Taliban. That’s as plausible as its previous claims that the Afghan government wouldn’t collapse, that if it did we would be ready, and that all Americans would be evacuated before Kabul fell to the enemy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no one with less credibility on Afghanistan than a member of the Biden administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, claimed that, \"this humanitarian aid, like all aid from the United States, will go directly to NGOs and the United Nations. The Taliban will not control our humanitarian funding.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the Taliban control Afghanistan, they control the non-profit NGOs and the UN presence in what is now their country. Anyone who directs money into Afghanistan is funding the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EI warned last year\u003C\/a\u003E, the Taliban have a 10% Islamic tax on income, and NGOs and even UN agencies have been paying taxes to the Taliban going \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eback as much as a decade\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban have already\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/the-taliban-want-to-control-aid-funds-a-red-line-for-donors-11648735574\"\u003E unveiled a\u003C\/a\u003E “Monitoring and Control Plan of NGOs\" which would allow the Islamic terror group to control everything that NGOs do with their aid. This is just the latest incarnation of the Taliban's old \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ECommission for the Arrangement and Control of Companies and Organizations\u003C\/a\u003E which included NGO coordinators and which padded the pockets of the Taliban with our aid. And the Taliban have already taken to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/12\/taliban-already-seizing-humanitarian-aid-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eseizing aid\u003C\/a\u003E sent into the terror state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Ghor province, the Taliban ruler announced that he was taking control over the NGOs and ordered them to turn over the money and pursue whatever projects the terrorists decided were worthwhile. Those who resisted were locked up, and while the order may be temporarily in abeyance after foreign protests, the terrorists keep testing us to see what they can away with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban have been hungry to get their hands on foreign aid, but, likely guided by their Qatari backers, they've also been clever about it. They proposed a joint body with the international community to dispense aid. When that didn't work, they went back to their usual strategy of pressuring NGOs to hire Taliban members to determine where the aid should go and who should distribute it. But that's just a matter of cutting out the middleman for more direct control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the NGOs rely heavily on local labor, all the Taliban have to do is intimidate Afghan employees into following their orders. And for a terror group that practices mutilation and beheading, that's not hard. Does anyone really believe that an Afghan with a wife and children living under Taliban rule is going to follow our aid guidelines rather than those of the gunmen?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, like the Houthis in Yemen and other Islamic terror groups who both cause and profit from famines, have already been distributing and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/opinion\/how-the-taliban-elicits-praise-from-the-communities-it-has-deprived-of-aid-55769\"\u003Etaking credit \u003C\/a\u003Efor humanitarian aid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Organization of Islamic Cooperation has also set up a \"humanitarian trust fund\" at a meeting hosted by Pakistan, a strong supporter of the Taliban, under the aegis of the Islamic Development Bank together with \"international actors\". One can only imagine where it will go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENGOs are using Hawalas to move money into Afghanistan in order to bypass our sanctions on the Taliban. That means it's quite likely that international aid money is already crossing streams with funds being funneled to not only the Taliban, but also to Al Qaeda and ISIS-K.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd since the Taliban control Afghanistan, they're also able to tax the Hawala system which means that any money we transfer, as Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield put it, \"directly to NGOs\" and is then moved by them to Afghanistan through Hawalas will go to the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that will be the first of a series of ways that the Taliban will profit from our humanitarian aid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHumanitarian aid remains a major asset for Islamic terrorists from Hamas in Gaza to the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Taliban in Afghanistan. While opium and rare earths are assets that require a great deal of labor and risk to exploit, foreign aid just shows up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban continue to engage in diplomacy because we keep sending them money. But much as the Islamic terror group kept negotiating with us while plotting to seize the country, their willingness to engage in diplomacy doesn’t mean that they’ve become moderate. Only that the terrorists are once again playing on our naive faith in the power of international diplomacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter two decades of funding the Taliban with our efforts to rebuild Afghanistan, we’re still at it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortions of the nearly $1 billion in foreign aid stolen from the paychecks of American workers and the mouths of their children will be used to finance a new Jihad against Western nations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA generation after 9\/11, Americans are once again funding the terrorists who are out to kill them.\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\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\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 style=\"font-size: medium;\"\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\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4164337123683392522\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/biden-sends-nearly-1-billion-to.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4164337123683392522"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4164337123683392522"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/biden-sends-nearly-1-billion-to.html","title":"Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEheUBhczlSQAtSicYLKXaUGgBeum9Daz8CisHEU18uVqdV2xLn8GFB7oIqOeJunbt1NyDV6_aJia9LxEdoxpAvHC1cAP84NMlurezkYXlK3w4j8PAsGaTaHRGfPxYe7eApi8hzXX0UCfTJMSsl58X6pli3cjrfyqgp4m_np5Kq0T7PDQH4FLbw\/s72-c\/taliban%20cnn.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-373032760439711815"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-03T14:52:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-03T14:52:19.680-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feminism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Taliban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2001, the Taliban blew up the giant Buddha statues. Now they’re charging tourists \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/taliban-destroyed-afghanistans-ancient-buddhas-now-welcoming-tourists-rcna6307\"\u003Efive bucks\u003C\/a\u003E each to go see the statues that aren’t there. Considering the Islamic knack for destroying statues, tombs, historic buildings, and anything that isn’t a mosque, tourism can be tough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFortunately the Taliban have the opium business to fall back on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s792\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"792\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile officially the Taliban deplore drugs, their takeover was partly backed by the country’s drug lords who were eager for an end to America’s war on drugs. Planting season has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghanistans-opium-business-cranks-up-as-the-taliban-look-the-other-way-11637491200?mod=djemalertNEWS\"\u003Earrived\u003C\/a\u003E and everyone is expecting a lot of drug money to start flowing into the Taliban’s terrorist coffers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban response to international complaints has been the familiar drug shakedown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the international community recognizes our government and we receive aid and development assistance, then poppies will definitely disappear,” a Taliban governor told the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFormer U.S. administrations had offered aid in exchange for suspending the drug business. And while Afghanistan’s only real cash crop didn’t go away, the Jihadist bosses of the opium OPEC were willing to occasionally reduce production in exchange for cash from Uncle Sam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is directing over a hundred million in aid to Afghanistan, but what the Taliban really want is the $9 billion in money from the former government they had overthrown. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat includes the $1.3 billion in gold \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/08\/biden-tried-send-pallets-cash-taliban-kabul-fell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Esitting in\u003C\/a\u003E Manhattan vaults near Ground Zero.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban would like that gold, but so would the families of the victims killed by the Taliban’s Al Qaeda allies on September 11. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 9\/11 families had sued the Taliban and won $7 billion in damages. But back then the Taliban didn't have money just sitting around in downtown Manhattan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's no longer the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's problem is the familiar one facing the Obama administration over judgements won by terror victims against Iran and the PLO. How do you funnel money to the terrorists without letting their victims get hold of it? The answer is that you pay secret ransoms or send “humanitarian aid”. Withholding money from terror victims to pay terror bosses looks tacky, so just turn the money into ransom for American hostages or medicine for crying local children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so despite the fact that the Taliban negotiate with all faiths other than their own in bad faith, the Biden administration is still negotiating with the terrorists who broke every previous deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after Thanksgiving, some of Biden's boys from the State Department, USAID, the Treasury Department, and assorted spooks, flew off to talk turkey with the Taliban in Qatar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe assortment of departments and agencies in the delegation to the terrorists was an interesting one. The State Department's diplomats love to appease terrorists, USAID is there to dole out \"humanitarian aid\", the spooks are there to ask the terrorists for info on the other terrorists, and the Treasury Department is there to discuss economic sanctions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd how to bypass them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll it takes is certifying that the Taliban are nice folks now and it’s time to work with them on feeding and clothing the Afghan people, not to mention educating the girls of Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after the Taliban banned women from television, Biden's State Department spokesman Ned Price released a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-delegation-meeting-with-taliban-representatives\/\"\u003Estatemen\u003C\/a\u003Et praising the Taliban's \"openness to engaging with the international community on full access to education\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrice further claimed that the Islamic terrorist group which closed most schools to girls had actually \"welcomed efforts to verify and monitor progress to enroll women and girls in school at all levels.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, apparently, also \"asked for support in the education sector.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreferably in the form of cash, heroin, or Black Hawk helicopter parts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the Taliban, 75% of girls are back in school. And if you believe that, you probably work for the State Department. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s newfound feminism is as suspect as that of Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden, but they want money and Joe Biden wants to give it to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe levers for extracting that cash are a combination of blackmail and victimhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban will cash in on opium while the people starve. And then ask for money in exchange for shutting down the drug trade and then getting the people something to eat. The remaining Americans and Afghan visa recipients are also hostages who can be traded for more dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s another reason why so very few of the visa recipients ever made it to the airport. And why the majority of those who did had no visas and no vetting, but probably did pay off the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban can only make so much money from charging tourists to see the missing Buddhas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe last year should have been a comprehensive education in why the Taliban can’t be trusted. After agreeing not to conquer Afghanistan, they went ahead and did it anyway. While they were doing that, the Biden administration, which is almost as trustworthy as the Taliban, assured the media, which is almost as trustworthy as the Biden administration, that everything was fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow everything is fine again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Taliban aren’t beheading members of female sports teams, they’re showing a great deal of “openness” to “engaging with the international community” on their feminism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’ll even field a fully progressive approved all-female sports team of men in burkas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration promised to leave Afghanistan, but the United States never leaves anywhere. Aside from taking in tens of thousands of Afghans into our country, we’re still on the hook for feeding, clothing, and educating the Afghans in Talibanland, not to mention Pakistan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven once the Taliban get their billions and their UN seat, we’ll still be sending them aid. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn December 2000, the State Department \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/fact-sheet-us-humanitarian-aid-afghan-people-0\"\u003Eboasted\u003C\/a\u003E that it had sent $113 million in \"humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people\". It further bragged that the \"United States is the largest single donor of assistance to Afghans, and has a long record of providing such assistance.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the while it acknowledged that the Taliban were mischievously harboring Osama bin Laden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat money stolen from American taxpayers covered \"food, housing, health and education programs\" for the Afghans. And the State Department shamefully bragged that \"of every ten dollars\" in aid, \"nine dollars is a United States contribution.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year the Taliban contributed four airplanes directed at killing thousands of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving learned nothing in twenty years, the Biden administration and its career diplomats expect Americans to continue funding a Taliban welfare state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time the Taliban really believe in feminism, they insist. This time they’re really committed to fighting terrorism. And this time they surely won’t host another terrorist attack on America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs long as we pay them enough.\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\/373032760439711815\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/373032760439711815"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/373032760439711815"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html","title":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}}]}});