is a welcome tactical victory for America’s intelligence and

military personnel. Sadly, it also reminds us of the magnitude of

the strategic defeat we suffered at the hands of their

Commander-in-Chief a year ago.

Consider the following facts: Ayman al-Zawahiri was operating

in Afghanistan’s capital. Clearly, with America’s surrender of

the country to the Taliban, it’s a new haven for Sharia-

supremacists the world over. Worse yet, thanks to more than $80

billion-worth of advanced U.S. weaponry President Biden

abandoned there, those jihadists are vastly better armed than

ever before.

And the tens of thousands of unvetted, mostly unaccompanied

young Afghan men that Team Biden allowed to enter and settle

throughout America ensures the danger we face from the next

Zawahiris will not be decisively defeated by wack-a-mole tactics

in distant Afghanistan.

This is Frank Gaffney.