President Biden Announces al Qaeda Leader Killed in Drone Strike

[Rick Plant]

When President Joe Biden made the difficult decision to end the longtime U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, the entire mainstream media unfortunately seized the opportunity to chase ratings by dishonestly spinning the withdrawal as a catastrophe – and Biden’s approval rating suffered due to the media’s malfeasance.

Biden’s position at the time was that the U.S. did not need to continue occupying Afghanistan, at the ongoing cost of U.S. military personnel lives, just to have the upper hand over terrorist groups in the region – something that the media all but ignored in its thirst to cover the withdrawal in tabloid fashion.

But when Biden greenlit the CIA operation yesterday that took out the leader of Al Qaeda, it proved that he’d been correct all along. Middle Eastern terrorist groups are curtailed by surgical strikes against their leaders, not by trying to militarily occupy an entire broken nation.

In other words, President Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal has now been vindicated. This comes even as Biden’s plan to reduce gas prices has proved highly successful, his infrastructure plan continues to pay dividends, and other triumphs. Biden has been nailing it all along, and we’re now seeing the long term payoff. Now we wait to see if the media acknowledges that it’s been covering Biden dishonestly all along, and begins covering him in more honest fashion.

[Rick Plant]

Biden world sees vindication in his Afghanistan drawdown one year and one drone strike later
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/02/biden-afghanistan-al-zawahri-00049306

[Rick Plant]

Biden: Killing of al-Qaida leader is long-sought ‘justice’
https://apnews.com/article/ayman-al-zawahri-al-qaida-terrorism-biden-36e5f10256c9bc9972b252849eda91f2

[Rick Plant]

The U.S. killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. What now for the Taliban?

The militant group's sheltering of another Al Qaeda leader will hinder its quest for international legitimacy and much-needed aid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-killed-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahri-kabul-taliban-war-on-terror-rcna41120

[Rick Plant]

Taliban say they didn't know Ayman al-Zawahiri was in Kabul after al Qaeda leader killed in U.S. drone strike
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ayman-al-zawahiri-killed-taliban-say-they-didnt-know-al-qaeda-leader-was-in-kabul/

[Rick Plant]

The radical right still refuses to give President Biden credit for making the entire world more safe.

[Rick Plant]

How Biden and his team decided to kill al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri

CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports on new details released by the White House about the Drone strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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