The group referred to as ISIS-K is the “Khorasan” branch of the Islamic State, located in Afghanistan. The insurgent group formed after a faction within the Taliban splintered and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – in October 2014 The war on terrorism and the spread of Islamic jihad has really been successful, has it not? Yes, it’s clear the leaders in the West, elected and appointed officials, military officials, and intelligence agencies are really on top of things wouldn’t you say?

 

Biden: ISIS-K Terror Threat So Great We Have To Leave Americans In Their Hands

 

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

By Daniel Greenfield

Reprinted from FrontPageMag

 

If you wait long enough, say a day or two, Biden’s explanations for what the hell he’s doing in Afghanistan will be the opposite of what they were.

Biden, the politician who ran on nation-building and an Afghan surge in 2007, has been lying and claiming that he was opposed to them from the first.

The withdrawal began with Biden claiming credit for finally making the decision to end the war, only to pivot to blaming President Trump when his withdrawal went wrong.

Biden began his withdrawal by claiming that the Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan had been defeated and there was no further need for a military presence.

Now he has pivoted over to arguing that he has to abandon thousands of Americans behind Taliban lines because the threat from ISIS-K, a local ISIS affiliate is too great.

A threat so great that 6,000 American military personnel can’t stand up to it, and that requires abandoning unknown numbers of Americans.

Biden has spent the retreat talking out of both sides of his mouth. But his rationale for abandoning Americans is particularly egregious.

The same totalitarian who militarized Washington D.C. and kicked off an extended military occupation of the capital to deal with an imaginary threat to his own person refuses to protect the Americans he betrayed and left in harm’s way.

The ISIS-K threat is so great that Biden just has to leave Americans in their hands.