PANJSHIR, AFGHANISTAN ¨C While the international community abandons Afghanistan, veteran warriors in the struggles against the Soviet Union and the Taliban are gathering in their old base camps deep in north-central Afghanistan¡¯s Panjshir Valley.
Although some of the towns of Panjshir have fallen to the Taliban, a National Resistance Front, similar to the one that fought the Soviets and helped the United States overthrow the Taliban in 2001, has begun to mount a resistance campaign.
Their cause is both just and necessary, as a dizzying array of terrorist organizations are also gathering in other parts of the country. This is a clear and present danger for the entire world, because Afghanistan¡¯s mountains and valleys have previously spawned and incubated jihadi movements that spread from Algeria to Libya, through Syria and Saudi Arabia.
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