As President Joe Biden and his minions continue to spin his catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, one reemerging theme is that they don’t seem to have a firm grasp on which countries the United States does and does not have troops in.
First, two weeks ago, when ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked about the threat to the U.S. from al Qaeda after the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Biden responded:
But, as many fact-checkers have since pointed out, this just isn’t true. The U.S. does have about 900 troops in Syria for the very purpose of managing the threat to the U.S. from ISIS.
Then, just yesterday, in response to a question about whether the U.S. was safer now that they had captured billions of dollars worth of U.S. military equipment, White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded:
Except the U.S. does have troops in both Somalia and Yemen, and the troops in both of those countries are there to help manage the threat of al Qaeda and ISIS to the U.S.
Apparently, the U.S. has troops helping to fight ISIS and al Qaeda in far more countries than the Biden administration realizes.
Maybe they could have considered keeping such a force in Afghanistan to help keep the Taliban, ISIS, and al Qaeda in check.
