One of the government officials who orchestrated cash payments to the Taliban now works as a staffer on the very Senate committee set to discuss the bill to defund the Taliban on January 29. His name is Tom West.
Get ready for opposition. Hold the line. They will deny sending money to the Taliban. They’ll say the money goes to the NGOs. They’ll say the money is for hungry women and children. They will be lying. They are funding the Taliban.
They’ll say cash was sent to technocrats at the Central Bank of Afghanistan. They will never tell you that the Central Bank is run by a terrorist who is still sanctioned by the United States government for financing IED attacks against our soldiers.
Defund the Taliban.