{"id":1606938,"date":"2022-08-15T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606938"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:04:34","slug":"a-nation-in-anguish-one-year-after-bidens-disastrous-withdrawal-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-nation-in-anguish-one-year-after-bidens-disastrous-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Nation in Anguish\u2019: One Year After Biden\u2019s Disastrous Withdrawal From 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\">24<\/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%2Fa-nation-in-anguish-one-year-after-bidens-disastrous-withdrawal-from-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=1606938&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>August 15, 2022, marks one year since the Taliban retook the Afghan capital of Kabul following the Biden administration&#8217;s catastrophic withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. In that time, Afghanistan has become &#8220;a nation in anguish,&#8221; <i>Axios<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-us-withdrawal-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban has banned women from attending school, cracked down on the media, and committed mass executions of civilians. Since the terror group took control, the country&#8217;s economy has plummeted more than 60 percent, a World Bank report <a href=\"https:\/\/thedocs.worldbank.org\/en\/doc\/ba0c782d2cb3a62f1f41356e978eb2cf-0310062022\/related\/20220725-State-of-Economy-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>. The economy and a drought have resulted in about 20 million Afghans going hungry, a U.N. study <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/05\/1117812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s poll numbers began to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plunge<\/a>\u00a0after he botched the U.S. withdrawal, resulting in the deaths of 13 American service members. Biden&#8217;s administration was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/white-house-was-brainstorming-afghan-evacuation-as-kabul-fell\/\">unprepared<\/a>\u00a0for the Taliban&#8217;s rapid conquest of Afghanistan following the withdrawal, the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> reported, even as the president <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-afghanistan-fail\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0the American people that the evacuation went off &#8220;as designed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban swore it would not harbor other terrorists, a U.S. drone strike this month killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. The Taliban government condemned the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/haley-bidens-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-all-combat-vets\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> this month that &#8220;Afghanistan is once again a safe haven where terrorists operate freely,&#8221; blasting Biden&#8217;s withdrawal as &#8220;a slap in the face&#8221; to combat veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 15, 2022, marks one year since the Taliban retook the Afghan capital of Kabul following the Biden administration&#8217;s catastrophic withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. 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