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August 3, 2022

Things are going so poorly for the Biden Administration that the CIA had to carry out a drone strike to kill a terrorist — not just any terrorist, the terrorist. Ayman al-Zawahiri was the most wanted terrorist; an al Qaeda leader who was not only one of the masterminds behind the September 11th attacks, which killed more than 3,000 innocent Americans, but was Osama Bin Laden’s number two. 

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According to CNN, the drone strike that killed Zawahari on his balcony in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan was “the product of months of highly secret planning by Biden and a tight circle of his senior advisers.”

While the execution of al-Zawahari is certainly a victory, it’s also a clear and desperate effort by the Biden Administration to give Biden a victory. But the execution of one mass murderer doesn’t erase Biden’s failures — past, present, or future. 

The irony of the Biden administration’s successful execution of an al-Qaeda leader is that it highlights the failures of the Biden administration. 

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Exactly one year ago, in August of 2021, Biden defended his hasty, chaotic, and irresponsible withdrawal from Afghanistan: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point, with al Qaeda gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as — as well as — getting Osama bin Laden. And we did.”

One year later, the Biden administration is celebrating killing an al-Qaeda leader in Kabul, Afghanistan. I thought that al-Qaeda was gone, Joe? Furthermore, one year ago, Biden claimed that our business in Afghanistan was finished after we got Osama bin Laden.

After the execution of al-Zawahari, COVID-positive Biden wandered in front of the teleprompter to read that “people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer.” But I thought that we already got rid of al-Qaeda, Joe? We got rid of bin Laden.

Again, it’s a good thing that al-Zawahari is dead, but CNN reports that U.S. Intelligence had been monitoring the most wanted terrorist in his safe house in Kabul since April. What does that tell you about the state of Afghanistan? After Biden’s botched withdrawal, Afghanistan not only became a Taliban stronghold, but a safe haven for bin Laden’s number two.

While we can all celebrate the death of the monster al-Zawahari in Kabul, was it worth the deaths of 13 American service members, who were killed by a suicide bomber during Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan? Had the U.S. not handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban, would al-Zawahari have sought and found refuge in Kabul? 

The truth is, Biden created the circumstances, by which al-Zawahari came out of hiding and assumed residency in Kabul, where he presumed he would be safe.