UNEXPECTEDLY! White House: Oh yeah, by the way, al-Qaeda’s back in Afghanistan. “Kirby’s trying and failing to explain away the inexplicable. Biden and his team want credit for taking out Zawahiri in Kabul — a legitimate tactical win — without accepting any accountability for the actions that not only allowed the head of AQ back into the capital of Afghanistan but that also allowed AQ’s Taliban allies and protectors to take over the country again. Getting Zawahiri was good, but the fact that he was operating openly in Kabul is a direct condemnation of the withdrawal Biden executed, especially in his decision to abandon Bagram and to cut off supplies to the Afghan military that we designed for reliance on American support. Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan has turned the country back over to the terrorists we’ve fought for the past twenty years. Kirby may not like hearing this, but it’s the obvious lesson from their strike on Zawahiri.”