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Why Trust the Taliban?
When someone shows you who they are with a beheading video, believe them.
While the Biden Administration attempts to turn the page on Afghanistan via any means necessary, and Republicans refuse to let them by ruthlessly grilling Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Congress, the situation on the ground in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate apace.
To the surprise of very few, and the disappointment of many, the Taliban’s lofty promises of a kinder, gentler, totalitarian rule than the one they inflicted on Afghanistan two decades ago have proven completely empty.
No: The Taliban has not started publicly executing American citizens on livestream. They even reportedly allowed a State Department evacuation flight to depart this week carrying 200 people.
But Taliban fighters have been carrying out executions of Afghans who cooperated with the U.S. or Afghan government. Other innocent people have been killed as well.
There are credible reports of sex trafficking via the abduction and coercion of young women, widows and girls into forced “marriages” with Taliban fighters. Many Afghan families have been displaced and have fled to nearby nations in an attempt to escape this fate.
Graphic images of journalists detained, beaten, flogged and tortured by Taliban soldiers are making the…