{"id":1606471,"date":"2022-08-15T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606471"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:26:07","slug":"one-year-later-americans-and-allies-remain-stranded-in-afghanistan-after-bidens-botched-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-year-later-americans-and-allies-remain-stranded-in-afghanistan-after-bidens-botched-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Later: Americans and Allies Remain Stranded in Afghanistan After Biden&#8217;s Botched Withdrawal"},"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%2Fone-year-later-americans-and-allies-remain-stranded-in-afghanistan-after-bidens-botched-withdrawal%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=1606471&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 id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">One year ago, America&#8217;s longest came to a brutal, abrupt end as the U.S. military completed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/afghanistan-withdrawal-year-taliban-takeover-kabul-president-biden-never-saw-coming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a>, leaving Americans and Afghan allies behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Marine veteran Chad Robichaux, who was on the ground helping to evacuate American citizens and U.S. allies, joined &#8220;Fox &#038; Friends First&#8221; Monday to recall what many critics call Biden&#8217;s &#8220;botched&#8221; withdrawal after U.S. forces left the Taliban-controlled nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the president&#8217;s advisers had advised him not to do this,&#8221; Robichaux told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/j\/griff-jenkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-host Griff Jenkins.<\/a> &#8220;He chose to do it anyway for whatever motivation is still unknown a year from a year from this happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-drafts-memo-defending-afghanistan-withdrawal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WHITE HOUSE DRAFTS MEMO DEFENDING AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone who had been to Afghanistan, who is aware of any kind of military strategy was like, this place is going to fall in the next days or weeks,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why myself and the team that we put together at \u2018Save Our Allies\u2019 acted the way we did and responded because we knew it was going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robichaux, who served eight tours in Afghanistan, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ukraine-benjamin-hall-rescued-behind-enemy-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-founder of &#8220;Save Our Allies,&#8221;<\/a> an organization dedicated to rescuing Americans trapped behind enemy lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/Afghanistan-2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"An Afghan woman waits to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 25, 2022.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      An Afghan woman waits to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 25, 2022.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">((AP Photo\/Ebrahim Noroozi))<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He worked with his Afghan interpreter Aziz while fighting in America&#8217;s longest war, and when his life was threatened, Robichaux knew he needed to spring into action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The State Department did announce on July 18th a number that indicated how many of our allies were there,&#8221; Robichauz said. &#8220;So the applicants, which are our interpreters that fought with us for 20 years, like Aziz, and that number they announced was 74,274.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you average\u2026 4.5 family members, we&#8217;re talking 334,000 pending applications, [and] that doesn&#8217;t include who is already here,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The rate that they&#8217;re bringing people out is 200 cases per week, so it would take 140 years to get all of our interpreters out of Afghanistan at the rate the State Department&#8217;s doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organization&#8217;s goal was ultimately to &#8220;evacuate American citizens, SIV holders, and Afghan Allies who the <a href=\"https:\/\/saveourallies.org\/pages\/our-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States government had left behind.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how many Americans might still be trapped in Afghanistan, but Save Our Allies has successfully evacuated around 12,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anybody that knew anything about Afghanistan, we&#8217;ve seen it was an international hub to keep terrorism at bay in the mountains of Afghanistan,&#8221; Robichaux said. &#8220;Recently, in the last weeks, we saw al-Zawahri freely walking around\u2026 and let&#8217;s not forget, the Taliban themselves are still a terrorist organization. They have a safe haven now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Bailee Hill is an associate editor with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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