No Amb. Khalilzad, the Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend
A Taliban terrorist checks an ISIS group house that was destroyed in the ongoing conflict between the two in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 5, 2023. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo
Former U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad’s suggestion that America and its allies should side with the Taliban against ISIS-K, which has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency against Taliban hegemony in Afghanistan, embodies the naïve belief that there are good jihadists and bad jihadists.
John Rossomando
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John Rossomando is a senior analyst for defense policy at the Center for Security Policy and served as senior analyst for counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years.
