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about Afghanistan
the likes of John Bolton droning on about Afghanistan becoming a terrorist haven. Aug. 2021
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/afghanistan-under-taliban-could-be-haven-for-terrorists-john-bolton.html
The Taliban’s return to power could once again turn Afghanistan into a haven for terror groups operating in the region, former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton said on Thursday.
He said the U.S. had gone into Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban and the “sanctuary they had provided to Al Qaeda.”
The U.S. should have maintained its military presence in Afghanistan as long as the threat from terror groups existed, said Bolton who was national security advisor to Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019.
but then there's this which was brought up previously in bread today and/or others
Feb.2020
https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-trump-gushed-about-handing-afghanistan-over-to-the-taliban-who-would-then-kill-terrorists/
“I’ll be meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not-too-distant future. And we’ll be very much hoping that they will be doing what they say they’re going to be doing: They will be killing terrorists. They will be killing some very bad people. They will keep that fight going,” Trump said at the Feb. 29 briefing, at which he also announced the first reported U.S. death due to COVID-19.