CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales interviewed: "Former Coordinator for counterterrorism Nathan. A Sales discusses Biden's speech on events unfolding in Afghanistan and his approach to handling the withdrawal."

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "The world should expect little change in the character of the Taliban after nearly 20 years in exile, said Nathan Sales, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is the best news Al Qaeda has had in decades,' he wrote in a briefing paper for the Atlantic Council."

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "With the Taliban back in power, he said, 'it is virtually certain that Al Qaeda will reestablish a safe haven in Afghanistan and use it to plot terrorism against the United States and others...

"Sir Ivor Roberts, a former UK counter-terrorism chief and senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based think tank, said: ‘This is a moment of extreme danger for the West."

"Sir Ivor Roberts, a former UK counter-terrorism chief and senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a Washington-based think tank, said: ‘This is a moment of extreme danger for the West."

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts quoted: "Quite apart from disaster being visited on Afghan people, the West faces a renewal of the same terrorist threat which led to 9/11 and the rise of ISIS. "Some reports have spoken of up to 20 terrorist...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "U.S. intelligence officials had previously said it would take up to two years for al-Qaeda to reconstitute in Afghanistan. Nathan Sales, who served as a senior counterterrorism official...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "Biden may not be as insulated by public opposition to the war as he thinks he is, critics said. Nor is it a given that Trump’s support for a withdrawal transfers immunity to Biden, said...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen commentary featured: "Yet however appalling it might be to watch progress made over decades wiped out in a matter of days, this is only the start. For whatever words come out of their mouths, the Taliban have not...