{"id":1635724,"date":"2022-09-07T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635724"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:54:10","slug":"erik-prince-afghanistan-the-terrorist-haven-we-fought-to-stop-after-bidens-botched-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erik-prince-afghanistan-the-terrorist-haven-we-fought-to-stop-after-bidens-botched-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Prince: Afghanistan the terrorist haven we fought to stop after Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal"},"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\">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%2Ferik-prince-afghanistan-the-terrorist-haven-we-fought-to-stop-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=1635724&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/oan-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<h5>Neil W. McCabe \u2014 OAN National Political Correspondent<br \/>UPDATED 2:51 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 7, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>(MIDDLEBURG, VA.) One year after the fall of Kabul, the founder of Blackwater told One America News his warnings were about Afghanistan were ignored by incompetent military leaders and national security professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the Pentagon is all about money and power, as any bureaucracy is, and so they mobilized and moved in\u2014and when Bagram becomes a saluting zone and a no-beard zone and a starched khaki zone, all progress stopped,\u201d said Erik Prince, whose book \u201cCivilian Warriors,\u201d told the story of his private military company and how he brought private enterprise thinking to the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the closed-minded generals who were constantly rotated in and out of theater, the highly educated American national security professionals were equally clueless about Afghanistan, the Navy SEAL veteran said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey abysmally failed, and they\u2019ve wasted trillions of dollars and thousands of our sons\u2019 and daughters\u2019 lives and limbs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prince said one galling example of American mismanagement of the war in Afghanistan was the refusal to reboot and develop the Soviet-era oil production in the Angot field.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the U.S. insisted on importing oil to support the war with massive markups that included bribes to the Taliban as we were fighting the Taliban, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp until the last day, all the energy supply that the United States and NATO needed in Afghanistan was trucked in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was boated down from the Med, up by truck from Karachi, up through the Taliban areas, paying a huge toll. About a third of the Taliban\u2019s operating budget was collecting tolls on all those U.S. trucks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The patriot businessman said it is a tragedy that one year after the fall of Kabul, there are still Americans and American allies left behind, and the country has become the terrorist safe haven the war was fought to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say between citizens and Green Card holders, it\u2019s definitely in the thousands yet, so there is genuine despair,\u201d the Hillsdale College graduate said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a rough winter there. With the cost of energy up globally and the economy in Afghanistan effectively frozen, it\u2019s going to be a rough winter,\u201d Prince said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say you\u2019ll see some significant fighting once the fighting season starts again come May, June of next year because there\u2019s a lot of people that are just not going to take it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/former-trump-white-house-press-aide-runs-for-granite-state-house-seat\/\"> Former Trump White House Press Aide Runs For Granite State House Seat<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil W. McCabe \u2014 OAN National Political CorrespondentUPDATED 2:51 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 7, 2022 (MIDDLEBURG, VA.) 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