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Gold Star mom says Biden admin ‘in Twilight Zone’ for calling Taliban ‘businesslike, professional’

The Gold Star mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan said it is “horribly blasphemous” that the White House referred to the Taliban as “businesslike and professional”and said the Biden administration must be “living in the Twilight Zone’” to have referred to the brutal regime that way in a statement about a Qatar charter that ferried US citizens and Afghans out of Kabul.

In the statement, the White House announced that the plane had arrived in Qatar from Hamid Karzai International Airport outside Kabul and thanked the extremist group for its cooperation in allowing the flight to depart.

“They have shown flexibility, and they have been businesslike and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. This is a positive first step,” the statement from National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne said about the Taliban.

“Wow, the first word that comes to mind … was blasphemous, horribly blasphemous,” Jill Stephenson told The Post on Thursday. “To call the Taliban that — it’s absolutely disgusting.And it’s coming from the White House.”

Stephenson’s son, Ben Kopp, an Army Ranger, was wounded in a firefight with Taliban forces on July 10, 2009, and died eight days later at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, DC.

“Especially given the circumstance of why it’s even happening in the first place, why are we even negotiating with terrorists?” she said. “That makes me shake my head.”

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