Will Trump finally stop America funding the Taliban?

For more than three years, democratic governments have been trying to pretend that Afghanistan does not exist. The embarrassed silence has given the Taliban drugs and terror cartel a free hand to transform Afghanistan into the world centre of jihad, while locking up women, and robbing western taxpayers of billions of dollars in aid and cash.

After President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal, following President Donald Trump’s 2020 surrender deal with the Taliban, Afghanistan became the country no one wanted to talk about.

Rather than coming up with a policy for dealing with the danger to regional and world security that Afghanistan represents, the Biden administration has thrown money at it. The United Nations has simply issued vacuous platitudes and complied with Taliban decrees banning women from work. 

Now Trump is back, people in Afghanistan and many in exile are clutching at a limpid hope that the president will come to the rescue.