{"id":655471,"date":"2021-08-17T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655471"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:20:39","slug":"sullivan-says-fair-amount-of-us-weapons-have-fallen-into-taliban-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sullivan-says-fair-amount-of-us-weapons-have-fallen-into-taliban-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan Says \u2018Fair Amount\u2019 Of US Weapons Have Fallen Into Taliban Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fsullivan-says-fair-amount-of-us-weapons-have-fallen-into-taliban-hands%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=655471&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\/Jake-Sullivan-e1629229866469.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">National security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed the Taliban has seized a \u201cfair amount\u201d of U.S. military equipment in Afghanistan Tuesday, adding that the U.S. is unsure where much of the material has gone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/video-people-running-kabul-airport-artillery-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/us-kabul-airport-troops-secure-taliban-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left billions of dollars<\/a> worth of firearms, vehicles and other military equipment in the hands of the Taliban. The \u201cdefense material\u201d was intended for use by the Afghan government, but its military dissolved in the face of Taliban aggression in a matter of days. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/seven-killed-kabul-airport-chaos-ensues-evacuation-flights-suspended-resumed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: 7 Killed In Kabul Airport As Chaos Ensues. Flights Suspended, Then Restarted)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.2244094488189\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SULLIVAN: \u201cWe don\u2019t have a complete picture of where every article of defense material has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQmEcajqYS\">pic.twitter.com\/FQmEcajqYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1427698081101910022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sullivan made the announcement during a White House press briefing, where reporters pressed him in particular on why the administration allowed the Taliban to acquire state-of-the-art military equipment such as Black Hawk helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan argued the U.S. provided the helicopters at the express request of the Afghan government before its collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president had the choice of either not giving it to them or giving it to them in the hope that it would better service their country,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"12.41265060241\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sullivan said the decision to leave behind US Blackhawk helicopters at Bagram, which it had hoped would benefit the Afghan military but instead, landed in the hands of the Taliban is a \u201cgreat example of the difficult decisions the president faces,\u201d he said. \u201cThe president\u2026(1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vmsalama\/status\/1427695132716027909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pictures and video of Taliban fighters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/pentagon-united-states-military-weapons-equipment-taliban-afghanistan-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seizing U.S. weapons and military equipment<\/a>&nbsp;have flooded social media in the wake of the Taliban\u2019s rapid advance. The U.S. provided billions of dollars worth of military equipment to the Afghan military before its collapse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.1911764705882\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taliban fighters posing with US weapons in a base they just captured easily. This is what we spent a trillion dollars on! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OpWoKI66ur\">pic.twitter.com\/OpWoKI66ur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GravelInstitute\/status\/1426644507198644225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. invested roughly $83 billion into training and equipping the Afghan military and police forces, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/taliban-us-military-equipment-afghanistan-bf8f0dbf-34e2-4fbd-ad85-8f3184b42475.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed the Taliban has seized a \u201cfair amount\u201d of U.S. military equipment in Afghanistan Tuesday, adding that the U.S. is unsure where much of the &#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-655471","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\/655471","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=655471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655471\/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=655471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}