{"id":644589,"date":"2021-08-14T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=644589"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:51:31","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-debacle-not-only-foreseeable-but-foreseen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-debacle-not-only-foreseeable-but-foreseen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell On Afghanistan Withdrawal \u2018Debacle\u2019: \u2018Not Only Foreseeable\u2019 But \u2018Foreseen\u2019"},"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\">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%2Fmitch-mcconnell-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-debacle-not-only-foreseeable-but-foreseen%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=644589&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234616982.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=A3CBAC53-6393-49A6-AE5A-236059C9ADC9\">a statement<\/a> regarding his conversation with Afghanistan\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S., Adela Raz and the ongoing situation relating to the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous troop withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis debacle was not only foreseeable, it was foreseen. The President and his team actively decided against a far more responsible approach to preserving our national security interests and protecting our Afghan partners,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cWith that said, it is not too late to prevent the Taliban from overrunning Kabul. The Administration should move quickly to hammer Taliban advances with air strikes, provide critical support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) defending the capital, and prevent the seemingly imminent fall of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they fail to do so, the security threat to the United States will assuredly grow and the humanitarian cost to innocent Afghans will be catastrophic,\u201d McConnell added.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s comments come after the Taliban has moved to isolate Kabul, Afghanistan, leaving the country and region in fear of terrorist rule. The Biden administration this week reportedly told U.S. Embassy staff in Kabul to destroy American flags in an effort to minimize the Taliban\u2019s propaganda efforts, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-instructs-kabul-embassy-to-destroy-american-flags-as-it-braces-for-global-embarrassment\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacilities will provide destruction support between 0830 and 1600 daily until further notice,\u201d an internal memo stated, according to a copy published by The Washington Post. \u201cPlease take advantage and reduce the amount of sensitive material on the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease also include items embassy or agency logos, American flags, or items which could be misused in propaganda efforts,\u201d the memo added.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows President Joe Biden\u2019s pleas last week to Taliban terrorists to refrain from attacking the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group takes over the country\u2019s government and ever wants to receive foreign aid,\u201d The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/12\/us\/politics\/taliban-afghanistan-us-embassy.html\">reported<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cThe effort, led by Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief American envoy in talks with the Taliban, seeks to stave off a full evacuation of the embassy as they rapidly seize cities across Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden was joined on Friday by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\">implored<\/a> the Taliban \u201cto immediately halt the offensive and to negotiate in good faith in the interest of Afghanistan and its people,\u201d a request unlikely to be headed.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban itself issued a statement on Friday claiming it would not take private property and allow business to continue as usual in Afghanistan. It also promised to grant amnesty to those who cooperated with the government and assured the world it would not harm foreign diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the word of a terrorist group must be taken with a grain of salt, as reports from within Afghanistan suggest the Taliban have already started closing down girls\u2019 schools and enacting its brutal control over the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday released a statement regarding his conversation with Afghanistan\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S., Adela Raz and the ongoing situation relating to the Biden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"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-644589","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\/644589","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=644589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}