{"id":2210215,"date":"2024-03-31T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-centcom-commander-isis-threat-to-u-s-becoming-serious-because-of-bidens-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T22:39:36","slug":"ex-centcom-commander-isis-threat-to-u-s-becoming-serious-because-of-bidens-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-centcom-commander-isis-threat-to-u-s-becoming-serious-because-of-bidens-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CENTCOM Commander: Biden&#8217;s Foreign Policy Increasing ISIS Threat to U.S"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fex-centcom-commander-isis-threat-to-u-s-becoming-serious-because-of-bidens-foreign-policy%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=2210215&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--><p>Former\u2062 U.S. CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie expressed concern about the growing threat of ISIS\u200c to \u2063the U.S. due to President\u200b Biden&#8217;s foreign policy. During an interview \u200don \u200cABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; McKenzie discussed the\u2063 recent ISIS \u200bterrorist attack in Moscow and echoed General Michael Kurilla&#8217;s warning about \u200dISIS-K&#8217;s intentions to target\u2064 U.S. and Western interests abroad. McKenzie emphasized the\u2062 importance \u2063of maintaining pressure on ISIS-K to prevent\u200b further attacks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie said during an interview over the weekend that the threat that ISIS poses to the U.S. homeland is becoming serious because of President Joe Biden\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie made the remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d with Martha Raddatz where he was asked about the recent ISIS terrorist attack in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral, your CENTCOM successor, General Michael Kurilla, said just days before the Moscow attack that ISIS-K, quote, \u2018retains the capability and will to attack U.S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months and with little or no warning\u2019,\u201d Raddatz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your confidence in that intelligence?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think General Kurilla is spot on with that assessment,\u201d McKenzie responded. \u201cHere\u2019s the problem. Again, we go back to ISIS-K. If you can keep pressure on them that they\u2019re in their homeland and their base, it makes it hard for them to conduct these types of attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we no longer place that pressure on them, so they\u2019re free to gain strength, they\u2019re free to plan, they\u2019re free to coordinate and to outreach that hit us in our homelands,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo, you might as well be playing an away game than a home game. We\u2019ve chosen to play a home game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the threat to the U.S. would be different had Biden not chaotically pulled U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, McKenzie said that if Biden had left the recommended 2,500 troops there that \u201cthings would be different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaving 2,500 troops, along with our NATO partners, who would have left 4,000 or 5,000 troops, we would have been able to continue to work against ISIS, which was the principal reason we\u2019re in Afghanistan, to prevent attacks in our homeland,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we might be in a different place now. I think we might actually be safer than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Afghanistan, we have almost no ability to see into that country and almost no ability to strike into that country. And so, ISIS there is able to grow unabated. There\u2019s no pressure on them,\u201d he later added. \u201cAnd, again, our operating theory has always been with violent extremists, you want local security forces to be able to control them, and then you want them to not be able to establish a connective tissue internationally that allows them to carry out external attacks abroad and it\u2019s very hard to do that in Afghanistan where you just don\u2019t have the ability to sense, you don\u2019t have the ability to strike, and very limited resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that ISIS \u201chas a strong desire to attack\u201d the U.S. and that \u201cthey\u2019re going to try to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, I think the threat is growing,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s began to grow as soon as we left Afghanistan, took pressure off ISIS-K. So think we should expect further attempts of this nature against the United States as well as our partners and other nations abroad. I think this is inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-U.S. CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie highlighted on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; the escalating ISIS threat to the U.S. due to President Biden&#8217;s foreign policy. McKenzie expressed concerns during a recent interview about the increasing risk posed by ISIS to the American homeland under the current administration&#8217;s approach to international relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2210216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/McKenzie-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/McKenzie-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210215","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}