{"id":443515,"date":"2021-04-22T19:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443515"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:51:03","slug":"u-s-centcom-chief-afghan-forces-may-collapse-after-u-s-pullout-says-pentagon-may-need-additional-resources-to-withdraw-u-s-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-centcom-chief-afghan-forces-may-collapse-after-u-s-pullout-says-pentagon-may-need-additional-resources-to-withdraw-u-s-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Centcom Chief: Afghan forces may collapse after U.S. pullout, says Pentagon may need additional resources to withdraw U.S. troops"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fu-s-centcom-chief-afghan-forces-may-collapse-after-u-s-pullout-says-pentagon-may-need-additional-resources-to-withdraw-u-s-troops%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=443515&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--><div id=\"attachment_2402211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2402211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander. (Photo by MAZEN MAHDI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:20 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A top military official disagreed with Joe Biden\u2019s assessments of the upcoming withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Thursday, Central Command Chief Gen. Frank McKenzie spoke in Congress and said the U.S. military would have to respond to possible attacks by the Taliban, despite the withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The General added, the Pentagon would require more money to actually pull out U.S. troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Biden pushed back President Trump\u2019s withdrawal deadline from May 1 to mid-September of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie also said the Afghan military may collapse after U.S. troops leave.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I also asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CENTCOM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CENTCOM<\/a> Commander Gen. McKenzie if there are plans in place to protect the U.S. embassy and personnel in Afghanistan if U.S. troops withdraw as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> has announced. I&#8217;m glad to hear this is a priority. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ock8XbeRo8\">pic.twitter.com\/ock8XbeRo8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Jim Inhofe (@JimInhofe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimInhofe\/status\/1385292872279371780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is a matter of very much great concern to me, and I think everyone, whether or not the future government of Afghanistan is going to be able to do that after we leave,\u201d Gen. Frank McKenzie noted. \u201cThat will be determined here over the next few weeks as we begin our drawdown and we evaluate the security platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie went on to say, U.S. regional partners, such as Pakistan, have not been particularly helpful over the past 20 years as political tensions and Islamic terror continue to simmer.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-lankford-says-dems-are-stretching-meaning-of-infrastructure\/\">Sen. Lankford Says Dems Are Stretching Meaning Of Infrastructure<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander. (Photo by MAZEN MAHDI\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 4:20 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 22, 2021 A top military &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276522,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443515","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=443515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}