“Precipitous” is not the word I would use to describe winding down America’s longest war. I only hope that President Biden stays true to the historic roadmap for peace forged by President Trump. 
During my time at WH we consistently heard from the Pentagon that we have to “fight them [terrorists] over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” But how did they get here? As 9/11 Commission documented, the hijackers exploited our immigration system to obtain visas.
That’s why 45 created the National Vetting Center; issued visa bans on any country that failed to meet our security standards (the mere threat of the ban brought other nations into compliance); fundamentally reformed refugee admissions; launched social media vetting, etc., etc.
Aided by internet, terrorists train/recruit/radicalize in dozens of countries. Can’t send military to all of them. We’d be in wars forever. But we can make sure we didn’t spend years fighting “over there” only to “invite them” over here. Immigration security *is* nat’t security.
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