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Dear John,

 

I wanted to be sure you saw Nikki's op-ed on Fox News.

Nikki calls on the Biden administration to deny the Taliban any legitimacy.
America should refuse to officially recognize the Taliban-run government and
should make sure the Taliban does not take the Afghan seat at the United
Nations.

You can read her op-ed here
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Best,

Stand For America PAC



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The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan is an unmitigated disaster.

It is devastating to the Afghan people.  The Taliban is among the most
barbaric forces in the world.  Its perverted version of radical Islam is once
again being forced upon innocent people, with summary execution for those who
oppose it.  Millions of lives will now be savaged or lost.

It is heartbreaking for the thousands of American servicemen and women, my
husband Michael among them, who risked their lives in Afghanistan to keep the
Taliban from power.  I thank God Michael came home safely.  Many did not.
 Their sacrifices mattered, but they appear to matter less now.

These epic moral dimensions of President Biden’s failure must never be
minimized.  But there are also massive strategic dimensions for America’s
national security that should draw our attention going forward.  The cost of
national humiliation is not cheap.

First, consider the fate of the brave Afghans who assisted the American cause.
The Taliban will kill them first.  

"Too little, too late" does not even begin to describe Biden’s pathetic
attempts to rescue them from the chaos that followed his April announcement
that all U.S. forces would quickly leave the country.

This fiasco sends the unmistakable message to future allies that we won’t have
their backs.  When you treat friends like that, you end up with no friends.

Second, remember why we went to Afghanistan in the first place.  Of all the
horrendous governments in the region, it was Taliban-led Afghanistan that
provided the most reliable safe haven for Al Qaeda to plot the 9/11 attack on
America.  Because of President Biden’s ineptitude, on the twentieth anniversary
of the worst ever attack on our homeland, the Taliban flag will once again fly
over the Afghan seat of government.

There is no doubt that a Taliban government poses a far greater security
threat to America than any Afghan government of the last twenty years.  They
aided and abetted the last major terrorist strike on our country.  

They now have a clear opening to do it again.

Biden claims we have "over-the-horizon" capabilities to stop terrorist
activities.  Sure we do.  But it’s naïve nonsense to believe that is anywhere
near as effective as intelligence, air, and logistics capabilities on the
ground.  

We had a capable counter-terrorism operation in Afghanistan and Biden gave it
all up.  That makes us undeniably more vulnerable to terrorist attacks today.

Lastly, America’s interests around the world are badly diminished.  China,
Russia, and Iran closely watch what we do.  

A weak America encourages China to swallow Taiwan.  A retreating America gives
Russia a green light to invade Ukraine.  A disgraced America signals to Iran
that we are not serious about defending Israel against the ayatollah’s pursuit
of nuclear weapons.

Biden policies already showed tremendous weakness. Caving into Russia on the
Nord Stream 2 pipeline, embracing the Chinese Olympics which should be known as
the Genocide Olympics, and begging Iran to take our cash and return to the
disastrous nuclear deal, all showed our enemies what Biden’s foreign policy is
made of.  

The Afghanistan embarrassment confirms it. America is less safe today.  

We will be paying a large price for this debacle for a long time.

What should we do next?

First, we must get every American out of Afghanistan safely.  Biden should
make clear to the Taliban that U.S. forces will not leave the country with even
one American left behind.

Second, we must not give the Taliban the legitimacy of American recognition or
aid.  It is not a legitimate government, and no amount of embrace from China
and Russia will make it so.  We should stop the Taliban from taking the Afghan
seat at the United Nations.

Finally, America’s credibility requires some serious clean-up. Biden’s
professed interest in human rights is in shambles. His oft-proclaimed desire to
work more closely with our allies is now laughable.  His posture toward our
enemies is dangerously weak.

Most importantly, as a people, we must recover the lost feeling about what it
means to be American and what our country stands for.  

We must not allow the surrender in Afghanistan to cripple our national will.
 When we are a unified and strong nation, there is no more powerful force on
earth.


Nikki Haley served as governor of South Carolina (2011-17) and U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations (2017-19). 

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