{"id":651528,"date":"2021-08-16T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651528"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:22:18","slug":"obama-defense-secretary-us-credibility-in-question-after-defeat-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-defense-secretary-us-credibility-in-question-after-defeat-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Defense Secretary: US Credibility \u2018In Question\u2019 After Defeat in Afghanistan"},"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%2Fobama-defense-secretary-us-credibility-in-question-after-defeat-in-afghanistan%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=651528&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\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-2.02.21-PM-e1629136980609.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former defense secretary Leon Panetta said U.S. credibility is &#8220;in question&#8221; after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban amid the United States&#8217; troop withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[President Joe Biden] has just got to ensure that the United States of America remains a strong world leader that can work with our allies to try to protect peace and prosperity. That is the message he&#8217;s got to give the American people and the world because our credibility right now is in question,&#8221; Panetta, who also served as CIA director in the Obama administration, told CNN on Monday. &#8220;I strongly recommend to President Biden that he take responsibility and admit the mistakes that were made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Panetta&#8217;s comments come as U.S. forces struggle to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/us-military-suspends-evacuations-amid-chaos-at-kabul-airport\/\">evacuate<\/a> Americans stranded in the capital city of Kabul, which the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/taliban-says-the-war-is-over-in-afghanistan\/\">seized<\/a> on Sunday. Biden has blamed the failed withdrawal on former president Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/08\/14\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-afghanistan\/\">saying<\/a> his predecessor &#8220;left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001&#8221; and &#8220;drew U.S. forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In July, Biden defended his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from the country by a Sept. 11 deadline, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/bidens-afghanistan-predictions-were-all-wrong\/\">telling<\/a> reporters that it was &#8220;highly unlikely&#8221; the militant group would overrun the country.<\/p>\n<p>Biden vacationed at Camp David over the weekend but is expected to give a speech on the situation in Afghanistan Monday afternoon. Press Secretary Jen Psaki is &#8220;out of the office&#8221; this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/jen-psaki-out-of-the-office-as-afghanistan-falls-to-taliban\/\">according<\/a> to multiple media outlets that received automated messages from the White House spokeswoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former defense secretary Leon Panetta said U.S. credibility is &#8220;in question&#8221; after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban amid the United States&#8217; troop withdrawal. &#8220;[President Joe Biden] has just got to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-651528","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\/651528","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651528\/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=651528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}