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

Commentary

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.