James Hickman: Meet the Taliban’s new Sugar Daddy - the American taxpayer

It’s impossible to forget those iconic images from the late summer of 2021— helicopters over the US embassy in Afghanistan. Locals dangling from the landing gear of US Air Force cargo planes desperately trying to escape. The US military frantically packing up their gear to leave the country.

It had only been a few weeks prior when the guy with five decades of experience insisted that the Taliban would never take over Afghanistan. But then it happened within a matter of days.