{"id":655376,"date":"2021-08-17T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655376"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:51:59","slug":"biden-said-the-mission-in-afghanistan-was-never-nation-building-thats-not-what-he-said-in-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-said-the-mission-in-afghanistan-was-never-nation-building-thats-not-what-he-said-in-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Said The Mission In Afghanistan Was Never \u2018Nation Building.\u2019 That\u2019s Not What He Said In 2001"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fbiden-said-the-mission-in-afghanistan-was-never-nation-building-thats-not-what-he-said-in-2001%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=655376&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-1234724795-e1629228790842.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cOur mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building,\u201d President Joe Biden stated during his speech on Monday afternoon on the subject of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. \u201cIt was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve argued for many years that our mission should be narrowly focused on counterterrorism \u2014 not counterinsurgency or nation-building,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, the claim that the objective was never \u201cnation-building\u201d appears to contradict his earlier arguments regarding the goals of the War in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, in 2001, then-Senator Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/58243158\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201cOur hope is that we will see a relatively stable government in Afghanistan, one that\u2026 provides the foundation for future reconstruction of that country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then, in 2003, Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biden-afghanistan-2003-alternative-nation-215900728.html\"><span>spoke<\/span><\/a><span> before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the importance of a continued presence in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn some parts of the administration, nation-building is still a dirty phrase,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBut the alternative to nation-building is chaos, a chaos that churns out blood-thirsty warlords, drug traffickers, and terrorists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These contradictory comments on purpose are simply further examples of the inconsistent rhetoric delivered by Biden on the subject of Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As explained by Ben Zeisloft for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-times-biden-was-dead-wrong-on-afghanistan\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span>, Biden \u201cexpressed his confidence in the Afghan military\u2019s ability to fend off the Taliban after the American military\u2019s exit\u201d just over a month ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTogether, with our NATO Allies and partners, we have trained and equipped\u2026 nearly 300,000 current serving members of the military of the Afghan National Security Force, and many beyond that who are no longer serving,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/08\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan\/\"><span>explained<\/span><\/a><span> Biden during a July 8 press conference. \u201cAdd to that, hundreds of thousands more Afghan National Defense and Security Forces trained over the last two decades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked whether a \u201cTaliban takeover of Afghanistan\u201d was \u201cnow inevitable,\u201d Biden rejected the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo, it is not,\u201d he responded. \u201cThe Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped \u2014 as well-equipped as any army in the world \u2014 and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition, it\u2019s important to understand that the \u201cnation-building\u201d aspect of the War in Afghanistan was not a primary part of the original objectives. These included the defeat of terrorist leaders and their organizations, the end of state-sponsored terrorism, and the protection of U.S. citizens both at home and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/28\/world\/operation-enduring-freedom-fast-facts\/index.html\"><span>CNN<\/span><\/a><span> explained, \u201c<\/span><span>The United States linked the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to al Qaeda, a group that operated under the Taliban regime\u2019s protection in Afghanistan. The operation was launched to stop the Taliban from providing a safe haven to al Qaeda and to stop al Qaeda\u2019s use of Afghanistan as a base of operations for terrorist activities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span> @ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/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>\u201cOur mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building,\u201d President Joe Biden stated during his speech on Monday afternoon on the subject of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. &#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-655376","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\/655376","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=655376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655376\/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=655376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}