{"id":651153,"date":"2021-08-16T13:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651153"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:06:47","slug":"some-people-wont-get-back-british-defense-minister-chokes-up-over-taliban-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-people-wont-get-back-british-defense-minister-chokes-up-over-taliban-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Some People Won\u2019t Get Back\u2019: British Defense Minister Chokes Up Over Taliban Takeover"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsome-people-wont-get-back-british-defense-minister-chokes-up-over-taliban-takeover%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=651153&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\/Kabul-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The United Kingdom\u2019s defense minister held back tears during an interview Monday, explaining that the country was unlikely to rescue all who have helped the British effort in Afghanistan now that the Taliban has toppled the government.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are only now in Afghanistan, and have been for the last two weeks, to process those people,\u201d U.K. Defense Minister Ben Wallace told LBC Radio in an interview Monday. \u201cWe\u2019re not doing other diplomatic functions, we are simply there to process all those British passport holders and all those people we have an obligation to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wallace described helping those people who aided the British effort in Afghanistan as \u201cthe very least\u201d of the country\u2019s obligations. But holding back tears, Wallace also added, \u201cpart of regret for me \u2014 is some people won\u2019t get back. Some people won\u2019t get back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Some won&#039;t get back&#039;: UK defence secretary chokes up over Afghanistan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwc3z65xXqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has occurred with remarkable speed, leaving Americans and allies rushing to evacuate along with those who have helped the Western effort in the country over the years. Only a week ago, a Biden administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2021\/08\/10\/afghanistan-intelligence-assessment\/\"><span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span> that the collapse of the Afghan government to the Taliban could happen within three months.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Sunday, amidst the fall of Kabul, the capital, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rPZW2iTEuPM\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> that the U.K. was focusing on its obligations to British nationals in Afghanistan and also on \u201call those who have helped the British effort in Afghanistan over twenty years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re going to get as many as we can out in the next few days,\u201d said the British leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Photos from the Kabul international airport show a dire scene. \u201c<\/span><span>Hundreds of Afghans have broken through airport security in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/saigon-on-steroids-multiple-people-killed-at-airport-as-afghans-desperately-try-to-board-planes\"><span>desperate attempts<\/span><\/a><span> to board planes leaving the country. Videos surfacing on social media show Afghans attempting to cling to the outside of U.S. planes to hitch a ride out of the country,\u201d The Daily Wire reported.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Commercial flights and U.S. military evacuations were halted Monday morning and repatriation efforts were paused in most allied countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-u-s-suspends-flights-at-kabul-airport-after-afghans-swarm-runway-cling-to-departing-planes\"><b>Related: U.S. Suspends Flights At Kabul Airport After Afghans Swarm Runway, Cling To Departing Planes<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>A U.S. official, speaking to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-784681c4400b097cf73b93cec34c5c61\"><span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span> on the condition of anonymity, said Monday morning that seven people at the airport have been confirmed dead. Two of the men were armed and shot by U.S. military personnel and another three people died after trying to cling to American aircraft. One disturbing video circulating on social media shows what may be a person falling from a plane that is already well into the air.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amidst the chaos, President Joe Biden has ordered an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-orders-more-troops-into-kabul-after-airport-overrun-with-afghans-evac-flights-suspended\">additional 1,000 troops<\/a> to Kabul, bringing the total number of American military personnel ordered to help with the withdraw from the country at 7,000. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/14\/world\/asia\/us-troops-afghanistan.html\">The New York Times<\/a>, the U.S. troops had roughly 3,500 troops in Afghanistan as of March 2021 \u2014 more than 1,000 more than officially disclosed at the time.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s defense minister held back tears during an interview Monday, explaining that the country was unlikely to rescue all who have helped the British effort in Afghanistan now &#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-651153","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\/651153","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=651153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651153\/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=651153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}