{"id":2017702,"date":"2023-08-31T04:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-still-quiet-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-august-comes-to-a-close\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T04:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:03:43","slug":"biden-still-quiet-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-august-comes-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-still-quiet-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-august-comes-to-a-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden remains silent on Afghanistan exit as August nears end."},"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%2Fbiden-still-quiet-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-august-comes-to-a-close%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=2017702&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>President Biden&#8217;s Silence on Afghanistan Withdrawal Anniversary<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u200c isn&#8217;t speaking \u2063much\u200b about \u200ba major anniversary this\u200b week, even if his Republican friends are.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal from Afghanistan ended two years ago, but\u2063 the Biden administration has issued only one written statement to acknowledge it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We will forever honor the memory of\u2064 the \u200c13 \u2062service \u2062members \u2062who were stolen\u200d far too soon from \u200dtheir families, loved ones,\u200d and\u200c brothers- and sisters-in-arms, while performing a noble mission on\u2063 behalf of our nation,&#8221; the\u2064 statement read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked by the Washington Examiner if the White\u200c House would do anything\u2062 else to mark the two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-celebrates-anniversary-of-toxic-burn-pits-legislation-in-utah-speech\/\" title=\"Biden marks toxic burn pits legislation anniversary in Utah speech.\">-year \u2062anniversary<\/a>, press secretary \u2064Karine Jean-Pierre pointed back to the statement \u200dand read a\u2063 portion\u200b of\u2063 it aloud, saying that Biden still \u200bbelieves that ending the war was the right \u200cthing to do.<\/p>\n<p>The White House&#8217;s relative silence\u2063 on the\u2064 anniversary in some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-still-quiet-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-august-comes-to-a-close\/\" title=\"Biden remains silent on Afghanistan exit as August nears end.\">ways makes sense<\/a>. \u200dThe withdrawal was widely seen as disastrous and \u2063led Biden&#8217;s approval ratings\u200b to \u2064fall into negative territory, where they have\u200d remained ever \u200csince.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have worked to commemorate the withdrawal in Biden&#8217;s absence, \u2063holding Capitol Hill \u2062hearings featuring the 13 Gold\u200b Star families who lost loved ones in a bombing during the \u2062war&#8217;s final days.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He\u200b will never have the chance to get married. He will never experience the joy\u2063 of being a father, and he \u200cwould have made\u200d one hell of\u2064 a\u2062 dad. We will never meet our grandkids. Our \u200bfamily name died that day.\u200d Two\u2064 years have gone by and where are\u200c we? To be frank, we&#8217;re knee-deep in \u2063 <strong>bulls***<\/strong> is where we are,&#8221; said \u2064Mark \u200bSchmitz, the father of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. \u2062Jared Schmitz. &#8220;Everyone who held a key position in the military still has that position or \u2063has\u2064 been promoted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Victoria Coates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a> of foreign\u2064 policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation, argues \u2062that Biden isn&#8217;t helping his cause by remaining silent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The failure to address \u2062it hasn&#8217;t made it go away,&#8221; Coates said. &#8220;Not talking about it draws attention to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Republican National Committee has sent out multiple newsletters this week blasting Biden over\u200d the withdrawal, pointing out that no Cabinet secretary, general,\u2063 or \u2063political appointee was fired or demoted and that\u200d the president\u200c has \u2064not said verbally \u2064the names\u2062 of the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-andrew-cuomo-calls-to-remember-essential-workers-on-memorial-day-weekend\/\" title=\"Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls to remember essential workers on Memorial Day weekend\">fallen service members<\/a> in \u200dpublic. That&#8217;s on \u200btop of the hearings\u2062 on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The White House \u200bdid\u200c name the 13 service members in \u200da statement released on the one-year anniversary of the Kabul\u2063 attacks, which Jean-Pierre\u2063 also referenced in\u200d the briefing room when asked about the \u200dtopic.<\/p>\n<p>But the administration&#8217;s strategy appears \u200dto be to\u200c draw as \u2063little attention as possible to the withdrawal. The second anniversary statement was released at 4:58 p.m. on Aug. \u206226, a Saturday, and is the only acknowledgment from the White House so far.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Afghanistan was planned beginning in February 2020, during the Trump \u2062administration, but events\u2064 ramped\u2063 up in August 2021. The Taliban seized the\u2063 capital city\u200b of \u200bKabul on Aug. 15,\u200d and\u2063 the\u2063 suicide bombing at Hamid\u200d Karzai International Airport occurred Aug. 26, leaving the 13 service members and \u200c170 Afghan citizens dead. The last U.S. military planes left Afghanistan on Aug.\u200b 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban \u200dhave since retaken control of the country, issuing a series of regressive reforms\u2064 and\u2062 committing hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-sells-sneakers-from-chinese-company-suspected-of-using-uyghur-forced-labor\/\" title=\"NBA Sells Sneakers From Chinese Company Suspected of Using Uyghur Forced Labor\">alleged human rights violations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE\u2064 TO READ MORE FROM \u200dTHE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ordered flags at \u200dthe Capitol flown at half-staff on Aug. 26 to mark the occasion, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also issued a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Two years ago, a horrific\u2064 terrorist attack\u200d at Abbey Gate killed 13 Americans and approximately 170 Afghan civilians. As we mark this painful milestone, we will never \u200bforget these American heroes and their service to \u200dour nation,&#8221; \u200cAustin\u200c wrote. &#8220;Today, the entire Department of Defense stands in sorrow with them \u2014\u2063 along with all of the families\u2064 whose loved ones gave their lives \u200cduring our 20 \u200byears\u200d in Afghanistan. \u200bWe will never \u200cforget what they gave to serve this country\u200c that \u2062we love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has remained relatively silent on the significant anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal, while Republicans have been vocal about it. Despite the event occurring two years ago, the Biden administration has only released one written statement acknowledging it. Meanwhile, Governor DeSantis demonstrates his governing capabilities through his efficient response to hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017704,"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-2017702","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\/2017702","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=2017702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}