“Every day we’re on the ground is another day that we know ISIS-K seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and Allied Forces and innocent civilians,” said President Joe Biden today from the White House, throwing a new urgency and specter into the American withdrawal from now Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.Calling ISIS-K the foe of the Taliban as much as America, and sending many pundits prattling in a new chorus, Biden seemed today to be working out a new rational in real time for sticking to his decision to exit America’s longest war.“We are currently on pace to finish by August the 31st,” the President stated in his 12-minute long speech as both the State Department and the Pentagon cancelled their respective afternoon briefings.
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