{"id":1962869,"date":"2023-07-02T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-says-trump-wouldve-kept-troops-in-afghanistan-despite-taliban-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:59:40","slug":"mike-pence-says-trump-wouldve-kept-troops-in-afghanistan-despite-taliban-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-says-trump-wouldve-kept-troops-in-afghanistan-despite-taliban-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence: Trump would&#8217;ve maintained troops in Afghanistan despite Taliban agreement."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmike-pence-says-trump-wouldve-kept-troops-in-afghanistan-despite-taliban-deal%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=1962869&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--><h2>Former Vice President Mike Pence: Trump Would Have Kept Troops in Afghanistan<\/h2>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence expressed his belief that former President Donald Trump would have maintained a presence of a few thousand troops in Afghanistan, despite the agreement with the Taliban to withdraw. Pence made these remarks during an appearance on CBS&#8217;s Face the Nation, where he placed blame for the U.S. troop withdrawal on President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration. He firmly rejected any responsibility on the part of the Trump-Pence administration for the outcome of the war, stating that they would have ceased honoring the deal with the Taliban once it was violated by the Taliban leadership.<\/p>\n<h3>Vulnerable House Republicans Call for Swift Action to Avoid Government Shutdown<\/h3>\n<p>Pence emphasized that under their administration, they would have responded differently to the situation in Afghanistan. He stated, &#8220;When the Taliban broke the deal and moved into Mazar-e-Sharif and Joe Biden did nothing, that set into motion the catastrophe that became Afghanistan and the heartbreaking end to 20 years of conflict.&#8221; When asked if this meant that the United States would have ultimately kept troops in the region after the August 2021 pull-out date, Pence confirmed that it was his belief. He explained that it would have been prudent to maintain a small American force to combat terrorist elements in Afghanistan and the surrounding region, drawing a parallel to the situation in Syria where U.S. forces remain today.<\/p>\n<p>Pence asserted, &#8220;I will tell you with deep conviction that, that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan would never have happened under our administration because we would have held the Taliban to the deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recent State Department report criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s crisis management and situational awareness during the collapse of the Afghan government. The report also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-says-trump-wouldve-kept-troops-in-afghanistan-despite-taliban-deal\/\" title=\"Pence: Trump would've maintained troops in Afghanistan despite Taliban agreement.\">acknowledged challenges faced due<\/a> to staff shortages and COVID-related restrictions. The Defense Department had initiated evacuation plans before August 2021, but the State Department&#8217;s involvement was hindered by a lack of clarity regarding leadership. The report also highlighted insufficient consideration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-could-lose-thirty-percent-of-its-police-force-fire-department-over-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"NYC Could Lose Thirty Percent Of Its Police Force, Fire Department Over Vaccine Mandate\">worst-case scenarios<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-white-house-deputy-press-secretary-ousted-for-allegedly-threatening-reporter-joins-biden-campaign\/\" title=\"Ex-White House Deputy Press Secretary, accused of threatening reporter, joins Biden campaign.\">senior-level officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal from Afghanistan was marred by tragedy, with thirteen service members and nearly 200 Afghan civilians losing their lives in an ISIS-K terrorist attack near Hamid Karzai International Airport. Additionally, the United Nations reported that two decades of progress in women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; rights were undone following the Taliban&#8217;s takeover.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden defended his decision, stating, &#8220;I said al Qaeda would not be there. I said it wouldn&#8217;t be there. I said we would get help from the Taliban. What is happening now? What&#8217;s going on? Read your press. I was right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Lim contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former VP Mike Pence stated that he thinks ex-President Donald Trump would have maintained a small troop presence in Afghanistan, despite their deal with the Taliban. Pence made these remarks on CBS&#8217;s Face the Nation, while also assigning responsibility for the criticized decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962869","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}