{"id":2025201,"date":"2023-09-07T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-frank-mckenzie-calls-delays-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-an-example-of-american-arrogance\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T20:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T00:53:32","slug":"gen-frank-mckenzie-calls-delays-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-an-example-of-american-arrogance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-frank-mckenzie-calls-delays-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-an-example-of-american-arrogance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. McKenzie criticizes Afghanistan withdrawal delays as &#8216;American arrogance&#8217;."},"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%2Fgen-frank-mckenzie-calls-delays-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-an-example-of-american-arrogance%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=2025201&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>Retired\u200b General McKenzie: American Arrogance Delayed Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/h2>\n<p>Retired \u200dGen. \u200dFrank McKenzie believes that the delay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-urge-biden-admin-to-reevaluate-withdrawal-of-u-s-troops\/\" title=\"Republicans urge Biden admin. to reevaluate withdrawal of U.S. troops\">withdrawing troops<\/a> from Afghanistan can be attributed to\u200c &#8220;American arrogance.&#8221; Speaking about his regrets regarding the withdrawal that resulted in the tragic deaths of \u200b13 U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">service members<\/a> in August 2021, McKenzie, who\u2064 was the head of United \u2064States Central Command \u2064at the \u2062time, expressed\u2063 his concerns about the decision to stay until the very end.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a case of\u200d American \u2064exceptionalism or American arrogance, depending on your perspective, to believe that you \u2064can actually withdraw, beaten\u200c from the field of\u200b battle, and still maintain a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-frank-mckenzie-calls-delays-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-an-example-of-american-arrogance\/\" title=\"Gen. McKenzie criticizes Afghanistan withdrawal delays as 'American arrogance'.\">large political platform<\/a> in the country you&#8217;re\u2064 actually retreating\u2063 from,&#8221; McKenzie said \u200bin an interview with Fox News&#8217;s Jennifer Griffin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McKenzie emphasized that waiting \u200duntil the last moment to begin the evacuation and giving away Bagram Airfield were critical decisions that led to the chaotic scenes \u200bat the airport in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 suicide \u200dbombing \u200dcarried out by Abdul Rahman al Logari at the\u200b Kabul airport during the evacuation \u2063resulted in the deaths of 13 service members and at least 170 \u2063Afghan citizens. It was one of \u200bthe deadliest incidents in \u2062the U.S.&#8217;s two-decade presence in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the tragedy, McKenzie acknowledged the constant questioning of whether \u2063things\u200c could have \u200cbeen done differently. &#8220;You\u2064 wonder if you could have\u200d done things differently. And I am haunted by that.\u200d I think about it quite a bit. It&#8217;s one of the\u2064 many \u200bregrets that I have,&#8221; \u2064he said.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie\u200b dismissed claims that the U.S. had intelligence about a suicide \u200dbomber\u2062 staying at a hotel and \u200bthat the Taliban failed to act on the request to conduct an assault on\u200c the hotel. He clarified that there\u200b were no \u200dspecific intelligence\u2063 reports\u2063 about a hotel and that\u2062 multiple targets were shared with the Taliban for \u200ctheir consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The details regarding\u200d these claims were\u200d revealed in the book <em>Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden&#8217;s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked \u200babout the decision to strike \u2062a deal with the Taliban, McKenzie stated that he does not believe they intentionally allowed Logari through\u2064 and that he does not \u2063regret the agreement.\u200b He added, \u2064&#8221;And I feel had we not done\u2063 so, our\u2064 casualties\u200d would have been significantly higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more from The \u200cWashington Examiner.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie blames &#8220;American arrogance&#8221; for the troop withdrawal delay in Afghanistan. Expressing deep regret, he acknowledges that this led to the tragic loss of 13 U.S. service members in August 2021. McKenzie, former head of United States Central Command, shared his perspective on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025202,"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-2025201","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\/2025201","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=2025201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}