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Slack.com slash DHQ. Am I no Stradamus? Am I no Stradamus? Over the past couple of weeks,

everyone has been focusing on the many evils of the Taliban. The Taliban you see are the

bad guys. There are enemies. They're the enemies of our pure and innocent allies we have

been told. And you will recall that I urged caution. I pointed out on this show and in

a column, you know, I hate to say, I told you so, that that allies quote unquote in Afghanistan

changed by the day. Actually, there are no allies in Afghanistan. There are only interests.

The guys who started the Taliban were our allies in the 1980s. They were the allies of our

allies in the 1990s, even though those allies that they were the allies have turned out

probably to be our enemies. Now, they were our enemies over the past two decades, but now

there are allies again in the fight against ISIS. One week ago, these were the worst people

on earth. Today, Joe Biden's national security advisor is talking about sending them for

an aid. You say we're going to work with the Taliban. Is that include the prospect of giving

them aid? Well, first of all, we do believe that there is an important dimension of humanitarian

assistance that should go directly to the people of Afghanistan. They need help with respect

to health and food aid and other forms of subsistence. And we do intend to continue that. Secondly,

when it comes to our economic and development assistance relationship with the Taliban,

that will be about the Taliban's actions. It will be about whether they follow through

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