{"id":1303349,"date":"2022-02-16T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1303349"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:24:02","slug":"psaki-responds-to-accusations-that-biden-is-doing-nothing-to-help-us-allies-still-stuck-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-responds-to-accusations-that-biden-is-doing-nothing-to-help-us-allies-still-stuck-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Responds To Accusations That Biden Is Doing \u2018Nothing\u2019 To Help US Allies Still Stuck In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-responds-to-accusations-that-biden-is-doing-nothing-to-help-us-allies-still-stuck-in-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1303349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended President Joe Biden against accusations that his administration is doing \u201cnothing\u201d to assist the tens of thousands of SIV applicants who remain stuck in Afghanistan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter pressed Psaki during a briefing to explain what steps the Biden administration was taking to make good on its promise to get U.S. allies out of Afghanistan, saying that little progress appears to have been made in the six months since the U.S. withdrawal. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/10\/joe-biden-reject-army-investigative-report-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Rejects Army Investigative Report Detailing Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom this podium [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan that the commitment to allies [in Afghanistan] is sacrosanct. The administration committed to doing everything it could to get our allies out, but tens of thousands \u2026 including SIV people who are in the pipeline are still there and struggling. What exactly is the administration doing to get them out? Because on the ground and from Congress my sources say they think you\u2019re doing nothing,\u201d the reporter said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that we have successfully helped, I can get you the specific number, but I believe it\u2019s hundreds depart from Afghanistan \u2014 partners, allies, people who have stood by our side since we withdrew from Afghanistan,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cWe\u2019ve worked in partnership with allies and partners in the region, including the Qataris where we have our diplomatic presence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the largest contributor of humanitarian assistance of any country in the world, which we continue to provide through proven third-party aid organizations,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Biden\u2019s handling of the U.S. military\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been widely criticized as a low point in his first year in office. Biden vowed prior to the withdrawal that the process would be \u201csafe and orderly,\u201d but the operation was ultimately deadly and frantic. More than a dozen U.S. soldiers were killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/pentagon-kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a suicide bomb attack<\/a> while defending the Kabul airport as the evacuation was underway, and harrowing footage showed desperate Afghans clinging to U.S. planes during takeoff only to plunge to their deaths. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/18\/declassified-watchdog-report-joe-biden-warned-afghanistan-air-force-collapse\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Docs Reveal Biden Admin Was Warned About Rapid Afghan Air Force Collapse)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. withdrawal ultimately abandoned more than 100 U.S. citizens under Taliban control alongside tens of thousands of Afghan allies and their families. Biden has since argued there was no way the withdrawal could have gone smoothly, contradicting what he had predicted prior to the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no way to get out of Afghanistan after 20 years easily&nbsp;<strong>\u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>not possible, no matter when you did it,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/joe-biden-afghanistan-taliban-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in late January<\/a>. \u201cI make no apologies for what I did. I have great concern for the women and men who were blown up on the line at the airport by a terrorist attack against them, but the military will acknowledge \u2026 that, had we stayed and not pulled those troops out, we would be asked to put somewhere between 20,000 and 50,000 more troops back in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended President Joe Biden against accusations that his administration is doing \u201cnothing\u201d to assist the tens of thousands of SIV applicants who remain stuck &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}