The Fallout Begins

What the camera can't capture is the fallout that is taking place in the minds of our enemies. After watching Biden's weakness in recent weeks, North Korea has restarted its nuclear weapons program. It's a certain bet that our enemies in Beijing, Moscow, Damascus, Caracas, Havana and Tehran will be making similar calculations.

Even more difficult to measure is what's going on in the minds of thousands of Muslim extremists living in the heart of Western Civilization in Europe and the United States. 

They see the events in Afghanistan as proof that Allah is great. They feel called to prepare the way for the return of the Islamic messiah to begin his rule on earth after killing all Christians and Jews.

This concept, which is preached in thousands of radicalized mosques, is a total mystery to our Ivy League-educated diplomats and military leaders, who tend to do purely secular analyses. 

They can't fathom that every concession by the United States and every perceived or real defeat is taken as proof by radicalized Islamists that Allah is great and will soon rule the world.

We saw an example of this mindset in Texas yesterday. 

Imran Ali Rasheed was investigated for three years by the FBI, making him another "known wolf." Over the course of that investigation, the FBI couldn't find enough proof to prosecute him.

So, last night he got into a Lyft car and killed the driver. He then drove to a police station and opened fire in the lobby. As usual, the FBI offered a minimal amount of information, indicating only that Rasheed was "inspired by a foreign terrorist organization."