Commentary Many people would have seen the horrific images of the unstoppable advance of the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. This advance was accompanied by brutal repression, executions of those suspected of collaborating with the government or its American allies, and denigration of women and girls. Specifically, the scenes witnessed at the airport of Kabul on Sunday and Monday last week were apocalyptic, with people clinging to planes and falling out of the sky. The whole country was overrun in eleven days by the Taliban. When they arrived in Kabul, they found a city that was essentially undefended. Taliban fighters moved into an empty Presidential Palace—President Ashraf Ghani had flown into exile. It was as if the keys to the city were handed over to this terrorist group that will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. U.S. President Joe Biden conceded that the events occurred much more quickly than his …