Alcide has found pretty favorable circumstances in afghanistan. The taliban hav not adhered to the deal they signed with america, saying they would severtize with alcide. But i think what's just as important here is that there was a really vigorous debate last year over whether America would still have the intelligence and the physical means to take out high value targets like this because they no longer had the afghan army to help them. What this shows is that the biden administration is still able to do what we call over the horizon counterterrorism, despite being knee deep in ukraine,. Despite facing no huge challenges around the world.
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