{"id":1589293,"date":"2022-08-04T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589293"},"modified":"2022-08-04T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:51:07","slug":"haley-bidens-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-all-combat-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-bidens-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-all-combat-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley: Biden\u2019s Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal a \u2018Slap in the Face\u2019 to All Combat Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fhaley-bidens-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-all-combat-vets%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=1589293&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;Afghanistan is once again a safe haven where terrorists operate freely,&#8217; says former UN ambassador<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFormer U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 4, 2022 2:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s bungled military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which brought the Taliban to power and turned the country into a safe haven for terrorists, is a &#8220;slap in the face&#8221; to every U.S. combat veteran, former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal left the world less safe,&#8221; Haley said following a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. &#8220;It&#8217;s a slap in the face to my husband and every combat veteran who served.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the Biden administration continues to make overtures to Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban-led government, Haley said that &#8220;America can never acknowledge the Taliban, fund the Taliban, or take our eyes off the region.&#8221; While the Taliban promised in talks with the United States that it would not harbor al Qaeda operatives, Haley said the strike on al-Zawahiri highlights that the jihadi government cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban leadership said earlier this week that &#8220;our Islamic Emirate strongly condemns&#8221; the U.S. drone strike, according to Voice of America. Al-Zawahiri&#8217;s presence in Afghanistan at the time of the strike has renewed concerns among top former U.S. officials like Haley about the country&#8217;s relationship with jihadi groups actively planning attacks on America and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Afghanistan is once again a safe haven where terrorists operate freely,&#8221; Haley said, echoing concerns from many GOP leaders about the security vacuum left in the region since the U.S. military fled the war-torn country. Al Qaeda&#8217;s resurgence in Afghanistan is also increasing pressure on the Biden administration to cut off humanitarian aid dollars that have been making their way to the Taliban since the U.S. withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Zawahiri&#8217;s\u00a0presence in a Taliban safehouse has to be the nail in the coffin of any plan to release funds directly to the Taliban,&#8221; Nathan Sales, former ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism, told <em>Politico<\/em> on Tuesday. &#8220;They simply can&#8217;t be trusted and the risk is substantial that money released to them would find their way inevitably and directly into al Qaeda&#8217;s pockets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security &#8216;Afghanistan is once again a safe haven where terrorists operate freely,&#8217; says former UN ambassador  Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"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-1589293","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\/1589293","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589293\/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=1589293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}