{"id":651740,"date":"2021-08-16T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651740"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:35:39","slug":"returning-from-vacation-biden-plays-blame-game-as-afghanistan-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/returning-from-vacation-biden-plays-blame-game-as-afghanistan-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning from vacation, Biden plays blame game as Afghanistan falls"},"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\">20<\/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%2Freturning-from-vacation-biden-plays-blame-game-as-afghanistan-falls%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=651740&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-4.22.29-PM-e1629145438639.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden, returning from vacation to give remarks Monday, deflected blame surrounding the Afghanistan debacle and asserted that his administration had \u201cevery contingency\u201d in place in the event Kabul fell quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Afghanistan rapidly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/12\/afghanistan-taliban-war-crimes-us-withdrawal-embassy-kabul\/\">deteriorated<\/a> amid the U.S. withdrawal process, with the Taliban quickly taking over major cities throughout the region. The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/08\/joe-biden-afghanistan-remarks-stay-out-region-trusts-afghan-military\/\">announced<\/a> it was sending thousands&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/12\/biden-us-troops-deploy-afghanistan-kabul-taliban\/\">troops<\/a> back into Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/14\/biden-deploys-more-troops-afghanistan\/\">to help with<\/a> the evacuation process throughout the weekend after the Taliban took over in just more than one week.<\/p>\n<p>The president, echoing talking points issued by the White House to Democrat lawmakers prior to Biden\u2019s remarks, appeared to place blame on former President Donald Trump\u2019s negotiations with the Taliban, the Afghan military and political leaders in the region. He returned to the White House on short notice, cutting his August vacation short to address the nation amid backlash over his handling of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban,\u201d Biden said. \u201cUnder his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by may 1, 2021, a few months after I took office. U.S. forces had drawn down from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in the country. The Taliban was at its strongest militarily since 2001. The choice I had to make as your president was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is: This did unfold more quickly than we anticipated,\u201d Biden admitted before continuing to point fingers. \u201cSo what\u2019s happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced the U.S.\u2013Afghanistan removal was now and it\u2019s the right decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden, answering critics\u2019 question on the seemingly delayed response in getting allies out, claimed \u201csome of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier.\u201d He said this situation could have happened anytime in the past two decades and reminded Americans that he\u2019s the fourth American president to overlook this war.<\/p>\n<p>Biden admitted the scenes on the ground in Afghanistan amid the turmoil has been \u201cgut-wrenching\u201d to watch. He said the administration \u201cwill continue to support the Afghan people\u201d and plans to \u201ccontinue to speak out for the basic rights of the Afghan people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president also detailed the \u201ccurrent mission in Afghanistan,\u201d which includes evacuating Afghan allies. He said the plan is to \u201ctransport out thousands of American citizens\u201d out of Afghanistan \u201cin the coming days\u201d and touted his \u201cOperation Allies Refuge\u201d plan, which the administration announced in July as they tried to help special immigrant visa applicants leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little bit more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference. I\u2019m deeply saddened by the facts we now must face, but I do not regret my decision,\u201d Biden declared, taking no questions from the press after his speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, returning from vacation to give remarks Monday, deflected blame surrounding the Afghanistan debacle and asserted that his administration had \u201cevery contingency\u201d in place in the event Kabul &#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-651740","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\/651740","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=651740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651740\/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=651740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}