'We Did That': Afghanistan a Year After the US Surrender

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Iran, on the other hand, has been significantly strengthened.
62% : In January 2021, then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran has become the new home base of al-Qaeda:"Tehran has allowed al-Qaida to fundraise, to freely communicate with al-Qaida members around the world, and to perform many other functions that were previously directed from Afghanistan or Pakistan ....
61% : Robert Malley, U.S. Special Representative for Iran, continues to negotiate with the Iranian regime.
55% : As a result of this assistance, al-Qaida has centralized its leadership inside of Tehran ...
54% : Negotiating with Iran on behalf of America is -- Russia!
54% : On July 19, 2022, the United Nations released a report saying that "the international context is favorable to Al-Qaida, which intends to be recognized again as the leader of global jihad."Aug. 15, 2022 saw the first anniversary of the takeover of the presidential palace in Kabul by the Taliban.
52% : Al-Adel has lived for years in Iran, a circumstance that has been presented as an obstacle to the possibility of his succeeding Zawahiri.
48% : In addition to al-Qaeda's having a new base in Afghanistan, the terrorist group also appears to have had, for years, a significant base in Iran.
42% : Affiliates of al-Qaeda seem to have questioned orders coming from him because of his location in Iran.
41% : Although tensions exist between the Taliban regime in Kabul and the mullahs' regime in Iran, all available data show that Iran still plays a major role in al-Qaeda.
39% :Many of the sanctions that President Donald J. Trump imposed on Iran considerably hampered the ability of the mullahs to finance the Islamic terrorist groups they had previously supported.
29% : On Aug. 1, the mullahs sent a message saying that Iran is building nuclear warheads that could turn New York into "hellish ruins."
24% : The Biden administration almost never talks about Iran financing Islamic terrorism and never mentions that the lifting sanctions on the regime has contributed to financing the very terrorist organizations that the United States claims to be fighting.

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