Modi’s Visit to the U.S. comes at a Critical Juncture

Reality Bites by Broc Smith.

 Caroline Glick "Next week, alongside the United Nations General Assembly opening session, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have his first in-person meeting with President Joe Biden. He is also scheduled to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris.

"These meetings will arguably be the most important ones that Biden and Harris will have during next week’s marathon of meetings with world leaders gathered in New York. Their greatest challenge will be to demonstrate that the U.S. is a credible ally to India. This is no menial task. Aside from the Afghan people themselves, India is arguably the greatest casualty of Biden’s catastrophic surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

"Although India did not deploy soldiers to fight in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, it equipped and trained the Afghan army and police. India also supplied the U.S.-backed Afghan government with some $3 billion in civilian aid, making it Afghanistan’s largest provider of civilian aid. India was the first country to recall its diplomatic personnel from Afghanistan after the Taliban surrounded Kabul.". . . 

. . ."In the 1990s, the Taliban and Pakistan transformed Afghanistan into the largest terror training camp on earth. Following the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and Biden’s effective coronation of the Taliban, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan hailed the Taliban’s renaissance as “breaking the shackles of slavery.” He went further, likening Afghanistan’s attempts to adopt Western culture during the two decades the U.S.-led coalition was in the country as “worse than actual slavery.”

"With the Taliban back in charge, Afghanistan has reverted to its previous role as a Pakistani terror base. And this is a boon for anti-Indian jihadists. Syed Salahudeen, the leader of an alliance of Kashmiri terror groups, hailed the Taliban victory as “extraordinary and historical” and said he expected the Taliban to aid the terror groups once more.

"Salahudeen declared that just as the Taliban defeated the U.S., so “in the near future, India too will be defeated by Kashmir’s holy warriors.”

"Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the BBC that the Kashmiri terrorists are correct to be excited. The Taliban, he said, have a right “to raise our voice for Muslims in Kashmir, India or any other country.”

"Indian officials assess that much of the U.S. arsenal that was abandoned to the Taliban will end up equipping Pakistani-backed terrorists in their war against India." . .