This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

U.S. and Taliban negotiators are reportedly nearing a deal requiring the departure of most American forces still in Afghanistan. On Friday, though, a Taliban suicide bomber targeted U.S. forces outside Bagram Air Force Base near Kabul.

Clearly, the Taliban want the world, and most especially the Afghans they are determined to enslave once again, to understand that the United States is being subjected to ignominious defeat at their hands. Under present circumstances, withdrawal amounts to surrender.

Fortunately, Senator Lindsey Graham is urging the President not to go there. In comments Sunday, the Senate Judiciary Chairman warned Mr. Trump against repeating the disastrous mistake Barack Obama made by abandoning Iraq.

He’s right: We need serving and retired special operators and intelligence personnel in Afghanistan to protect us against the jihadist threat that will massively metastasize if Sharia-supremacists can again operate there with impunity.  

This is Frank Gaffney.