{"id":2003350,"date":"2023-08-17T05:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-lets-two-year-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-kabul-pass-in-silence\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T05:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T09:16:50","slug":"biden-lets-two-year-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-kabul-pass-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-lets-two-year-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-kabul-pass-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden stays silent on two-year anniversary of Kabul&#8217;s fall."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-lets-two-year-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-kabul-pass-in-silence%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=2003350&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>Tuesday Comes and Goes, Leaving\u200c Afghanistan Anniversary Unrecognized<\/h2>\n<p>Tuesday came and\u2063 went, and with\u2063 it, \u2064an opportunity for the Biden White House to commemorate the two-year anniversary \u200cof the fall of Kabul ahead of the completed U.S. withdrawal\u2064 from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, President Joe Biden traveled to Milwaukee to deliver remarks on climate and his economic agenda. The failure to recognize what some\u2062 consider the end of \u200dAmerica&#8217;s longest war\u200b ran in stark contrast to\u200c many \u200bof Biden&#8217;s \u200bRepublican opponents.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Republican Criticism<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Thirteen\u200b American service members \u2062were\u2063 killed, China grew increasingly aggressive toward \u2064Taiwan,\u2062 Russia invaded Ukraine, and terrorists took over Afghanistan with the help of American equipment and supplies,&#8221;\u2064 former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, a contender in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, said in a\u2062 statement. &#8220;To\u200b date,\u2062 no one has taken responsibility for the botched withdrawal. No one has been \u200cfired, and no one \u200breplaced. The\u200d families\u200d of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-lets-two-year-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-kabul-pass-in-silence\/\" title=\"Biden stays silent on two-year anniversary of Kabul's fall.\">13 murdered service members<\/a> can\u2019t even get \u200bbasic answers about what happened. In a Haley administration, there\u200b will be no mistaking where we stand. Our allies will know we have their backs, and our enemies will \u2064fear American \u2064strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden was wrong about \u200dhis\u200b Afghanistan withdrawal, and 13 U.S. servicemembers \u2062died\u200d as a result.\u2063 To insist he &#8216;was right,&#8217; while praising the Taliban\u2019s &#8216;help,&#8217; is an insult to the families of the 13 American heroes,\u200c the veterans who served in Afghanistan, and\u200c the \u2062American people,&#8221; Republican National Committee spokesman Tommy Pigott added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>White House officials demurred Wednesday when \u200basked for a reason as to why the president did not put \u200cout an Afghanistan-focused statement on Tuesday, telling \u2063the Washington \u2062Examiner that &#8220;the \u200danniversary of the withdrawal being completed \u2062is \u2064the end of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>White House \u2064Response<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden has spoken on many occasions \u2014 and given several public addresses from the White House \u2014 about how ending our longest war after 20 years was \u2062the right thing to do,&#8221; a senior White House official said in a\u2064 statement. &#8220;Our nation is stronger today \u200cas a result and bringing U.S. troops home improved our national security\u200b by better positioning us\u200d to redirect our energy and resources to \u2063confront the \u2064challenges of the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House officials, however, did not\u2062 answer when asked about any plans to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the completion of\u200b the U.S. withdrawal \u2063at the end of August.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden put out a statement\u2064 on Aug. 26, 2022, \u200dhonoring the 13 U.S. \u200cservice\u200b members killed in the terror attack at the \u2064Kabul \u2062airport one year prior.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Statement<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I\u200c am praying for the families of \u200dthose 13 \u2063fallen warriors, who lost a piece of their\u2063 soul one\u200c year\u200b ago.\u200d Our nation can never\u200b repay such incredible sacrifice \u2014 but we will never fail to honor \u200bour sacred obligation\u200b to the families and survivors they left \u200cbehind,&#8221; the president wrote. &#8220;I am grateful to all the\u200b members\u2062 of our Armed Forces, veterans, and their families, as well as the diplomats, intelligence professionals, counterterrorism\u200c experts, and development \u200bspecialists who served in Afghanistan and who sacrificed so much to make our nation stronger and safer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An after-action report published this summer by the \u200cadministration found \u200bthat both the Biden and Trump administrations\u200d exhibited &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-mccaul-calls-on-state-department-to-release-report-on-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" title=\"Michael McCaul calls on State Department to release report on Afghanistan withdrawal\">insufficient senior-level consideration<\/a> 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> and how quickly those might follow&#8221; in pushing to meet the deadline for withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that the United States\u2062 overestimated the capabilities of the now-defunct \u2062democratically elected Afghan government to survive Taliban offenses and that a clear lack of communication between the Pentagon and \u2063State Department, and even \u2063among leaders within those separate bodies, further exacerbated \u200cthe situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u200d said we&#8217;d get help from the Taliban,&#8221; Biden told reporters in late\u200d June when asked about \u2064the report. &#8220;I was right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the sole Biden administration official to discuss the Afghan withdrawal in any public capacity on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Blinken&#8217;s Remarks<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to withdraw \u2062from Afghanistan was an incredibly difficult one, but also \u2062the right one. We ended America\u2019s longest war. For the first time in 20\u2062 years, we don\u2019t have another\u2062 generation of young Americans going to fight and die in Afghanistan,&#8221; he told reporters at a Tuesday press conference when\u2064 asked if &#8220;the U.S.\u200d has done [right] by the\u200c Afghan people and the \u200bAfghan partners \u2063who remain stranded \u200dthere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In turn, that\u200c has enabled us to even more effectively meet \u200dthe many \u200dchallenges of our time, from\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-u-s-commander-we-must-assume-very-real-possibility-that-we-may-need-to-use-nukes-against-china-russia\/\" title=\"Top U.S. Commander: We Must Assume \u2018Very Real Possibility\u2019 That We May Need To Use Nukes Against China, Russia\">great power competition<\/a> to the \u200cmany transnational issues that we\u2019re\u2063 dealing with that are affecting the lives \u200bof our people and people around the world,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We continue to work \u2064to hold the Taliban accountable for the many commitments that it\u2019s \u2063made and not\u200b fulfilled, particularly when it comes to the rights of women and \u2064girls. We\u2019ve been very clear with \u2062the Taliban, and dozens of countries around\u2063 the world have been very clear, that the path to any\u200d more normal relationship \u2062between the Taliban \u2064and other countries will be blocked \u2063unless and until the rights\u200d of women and girls, among other\u2063 things, are actually supported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Biden has maintained that ending the war in Afghanistan \u2062was the \u200d&#8221;right&#8221;\u2062 decision, politically, his silence on the issue Tuesday should not come as a surprise\u2062 given the\u200c nosedive his polling took during the Afghan withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the\u200d president is ramping up his reelection effort, and Biden campaign officials previously told the Washington Examiner that Biden wanted to focus on economic \u200c&#8221;issues,&#8221;\u200b especially ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s milestone, the one-year anniversary of \u2062the \u2064Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday passed without the Biden White House acknowledging the two-year anniversary of Kabul&#8217;s fall and the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Biden opted to address climate and his economic agenda in Milwaukee instead. 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