{"id":1405653,"date":"2022-03-28T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405653"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:59:59","slug":"exclusive-army-veteran-alek-skarlatos-joe-bidens-incompetency-caused-the-death-of-soldiers-and-countless-civilians-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-army-veteran-alek-skarlatos-joe-bidens-incompetency-caused-the-death-of-soldiers-and-countless-civilians-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2013 Army Veteran Alek Skarlatos: Joe Biden&#039;s Incompetency Caused the Death of Soldiers and Countless Civilians 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\">38<\/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%2Fexclusive-army-veteran-alek-skarlatos-joe-bidens-incompetency-caused-the-death-of-soldiers-and-countless-civilians-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=1405653&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Oregon Republican Alek Skarlatos,\u00a0a U.S. Army National Guard veteran, told <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> this past week that President Joe Biden\u2019s incompetency is what led to the deaths of 13\u00a0American service members and countless civilians in Afghanistan last year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0Breitbart News\u2019s Washington Bureau chief Matthew Boyle on the radio this past weekend,\u00a0Skarlatos described the time he stopped a terrorist attack on a train from\u00a0Amsterdam to Paris when he was vacationing after his deployment to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He explained when he was traveling from\u00a0Amsterdam to Paris in 2015, vacationing with his friends \u2014 one who was in the Air Force \u2014 saw an\u00a0ISIS terrorist come out of the bathroom looking to shoot people. \u201cAn ISIS terrorist came out of the bathroom from behind us with an AK-47 and a handgun. Two Frenchmen tried to stop him\u2026 He ended up shooting one of them in the neck. That was what alerted us that something was wrong. And my friend Spencer, he was on the aisle seat. So I said something like, let\u2019s go, and my friend Spencer, for whatever reason, I got up and tackled the terrorist. I followed him, and long story short, my friend choked him unconscious while I hit him over the head with his AK-47.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skarlatos blamed Biden\u2019s incompetency\u00a0for the\u00a0deaths of 13\u00a0American\u00a0service members\u00a0and more than a hundred<b>\u00a0<\/b>civilians in Afghanistan last year mentioned how he was in Afghanistan in 2014 and 2015. He continued to say that the United States\u2019 military force in the country, at that point,\u00a0\u201chad pretty much gotten Afghanistan down to a science, and what I mean by that is we had the fewest number of troops there while still being able to hold the country very effectively by basically providing just air support for the Afghan army.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThen when it comes to our withdrawal, not only just Joe Biden telegraph our withdrawal to the Taliban, he doesn\u2019t put up any kind of resistance whatsoever,\u201d\u00a0Skarlatos stated. \u201cSo much so that they\u2019re basically at the gates of the airport when we\u2019re doing our final withdrawal. And then we allow all these people past security, which we didn\u2019t really have security was part of the problem. But we allow all of these people to get so close to American troops. I mean, they\u2019ve never had an opportunity like that before, at least not in recent memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skarlatos, after noting that terrorists would take advantage of the situation, said, \u201cthen [terrorists] suicide bomb 13 American soldiers and countless civilians\u2026 I believe the largest loss of life from a ground attack and the entire global war on global war on terror is history\u2026 seeing something that incompetent happened when we had such a handle on the situation is absolutely heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16454750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1091957826.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Alek Skarlatos (C) shakes hands with Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, French Consul General in San Francisco, after being given his naturalization certificate during a ceremony at the Alliance Francaise in Sacramento, California, January 31, 2019. \u2013 American citizens Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone received honorary French citizenship after foiling a terror attack in 2015 on a high-speed train en route to Paris from Amsterdam when a gunman aboard the train opened fire. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Skarlatos did confirm that he believes the United States should have withdrawn from Afghanistan but that there was enough information to do it \u201cproperly\u201d so Americans would not have died for \u201cbasically no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon Republican Alek Skarlatos,\u00a0a U.S. Army National Guard veteran, told Breitbart News Saturday this past week that President Joe Biden\u2019s incompetency is what led to the deaths of 13\u00a0American service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-1405653","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\/1405653","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405653\/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=1405653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}