This is John Batcher, conversation with my colleague Mary Kistel, Executive Vice President

Stephen's Incorporated former senior advisor to the Secretary of State, about the

Biden administration and in

Afghanistan,

a failed withdrawal in 21 has left threats around the world.

ISIS threats in Europe, for example, against the concert of the popular star Taylor Swift.

All of this adds up to foreign policy questions needed to understand the candidate for the presidency, Kamler Harris. But we don't

have anything yet. We're waiting. And Mary looks to clarification from the Harris

campaign about how the ISIS threat, the al-Qaeda threat, the

Afghanistan threat, will be dealt with under a potential Harris administration.

Here's Mary Kessel on what we don't know about the Harris administration, what we do know

about the failure of the Biden administration in Afghanistan.

More of this later.

In terms of Afghanistan, John, again,

hard to see into the mind of the administration.

I can guess at what they would say, which is probably that withdrawing troops from

Afghanistan allows the US military to focus its limited resources on other

more immediate threats to redeploy those troops to places like say Taiwan to do training and to go to the Middle East where we see now the threat of a wider regional war as Iran prepares to attack

Israel. I think the counter to that is that we were not ready to withdraw

safely that our rushed withdrawal in bold were not ready to withdraw safely,

that our rushed withdrawal in Boldens

empowered these various terror groups,

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