Biden’s National Security Adviser Can’t Determine If The Taliban Is Our Enemy – “It’s Hard To Put A Label On That”

Jake Sullivan at a March 2019 Hudson Institute event.


“It’s hard to put a label on it.” This is what Jake Sullivan, Former Vice President Biden’s National Security Adviser, told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace when asked if the Taliban is an enemy of the United States.

“Just on those lines, what is the Taliban? Are they now our frenemy? Are they our adversary? Are they our enemy? Are they our — what are they?” Wallace asked.

Sullivan said, “Well, it’s hard to put a label on it, in part because we have yet to see what they are going to be now that they are in control, physical control of Afghanistan.”

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