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Fox News’ Trey Yingst reports on the situation in Afghanistan and the impact on the region, including Iran and Israel.

What does President Biden’s disastrous decision on Afghanistan portend for the future of transnational Islamist terrorism? A lot. The administration needs to acknowledge its mistakes and get busy preventing the terrorist rampage.

There are two ways that the world could see a lot more slaughtering of innocents after America’s humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan.

First, of course, we could wind up with another terrorist Disneyland in Afghanistan. There will be way more ungoverned space in the country – space where transnational terrorists have operated with impunity before, and would be comfortable operating again.

There is every prospect that the Taliban never cut ties with terrorists groups, despite claiming that they did. There is every likelihood they will host these groups again – if nothing else as hedge to threaten foreign powers and as a source of strength, demonstrating they remain committed to the global Islamist mission.

Terrorists cruising around Afghanistan again will be a problem. And the U.S., now without a footprint in the country to base counterterrorism, will have to deal with this from over the horizon. There is a real question of how much real assistance and cooperation Washington will get from Pakistan.

Globally, the administration needs to ensure everything is being done to thwart terrorist travel, foreign fighters and press for regional transnational cooperation on counterterrorism.

The Biden administration may have shot itself in the foot, but that’s no excuse to sit there bleeding. Let’s fix this.

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