What do the Islamic State, John Bolton, and Henry Kissinger Have in Common?

They all want the US military to stay in Afghanistan.

Bolton and Kissinger have explicitly said so, and with the bombing at Kabul's airport which killed 60+ Afghans and 13 US troops, ISIS, or more accurately Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), has made it clear that they want more troops in Afghanistan, because they can't kill American troops in Afghanistan if they have all been reassigned to Fort Dix and Bitburg. (Also, ISKP is an implacable enemy of the Taliban)

Another thing that the Islamic State, John Bolton, and Henry Kissinger all have in common is that they are all murderous psychopaths.

Yet another thing that the Islamic State, John Bolton, and Henry Kissinger all have in common is that they don't give a sh%$ about the well being of the Afghan people.

The claim of responsibility from the Islamic State for the devastating suicide bombing at Kabul airport came as little surprise to analysts. The organisation’s affiliate in Afghanistan known as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), had been pointed to as the prime suspect immediately after the blast.

The IS official Amaq news agency said on its Telegram channel that a member called Abdul Rahman al-Logari carried out “the martyrdom operation near Kabul Airport”. The name suggests the killer of at least 12 US servicemen and more than 60 civilians was Afghan.

On Sunday, US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said there was an “acute” and “persistent” threat to the continuing evacuations from the Afghan capital from ISKP – which takes its name Khorasan from that used by a series of Muslim imperial rulers for a swath of land stretching from Iran to the western Himalayas.

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“They achieve several things: they hit legitimate targets (from their perspective), they send a signal of still being a force to be reckoned with and they challenge the Taliban’s state project by highlighting that the group can’t secure Kabul.”

ISKP was founded just under six years ago after representatives of IS made their way to south-western Pakistan to meet disaffected Taliban commanders and other extremists who felt marginalised within the jihadist movement in the region.

Any one who is suggesting that this attack is a reason for the US to stay in Afghanistan is either a complete idiot, a member of ISKP, or makes their money from Pentagon contracts.