{"id":657969,"date":"2021-08-18T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=657969"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:06:38","slug":"bidens-u-n-ambassador-slammed-for-responding-to-taliban-threats-with-strongly-worded-press-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-u-n-ambassador-slammed-for-responding-to-taliban-threats-with-strongly-worded-press-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Slammed For Responding To Taliban Threats With \u2018Strongly Worded Press Statement\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbidens-u-n-ambassador-slammed-for-responding-to-taliban-threats-with-strongly-worded-press-statement%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=657969&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\/LTG-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1jo504w\" readability=\"39.42025862069\">\n<p>Linda Thomas-Greenfield, President Joe Biden\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, faced backlash this week after she said during a CNN interview that the administration was responding to threats of aggression by the Taliban against women and girls by sending them a \u201cstrongly worded press statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UN Secretary-General is saying that they\u2019re already getting \u2013 and I\u2019m quoting him now \u2013 \u2018chilling reports of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of Afghanistan,&#8217;\u201d CNN host Wolf Blitzer said. \u201cWhat specifically are you learning about those threats?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hearing from people in Afghanistan that they are getting threats from the Taliban,\u201d Thomas-Greenfield responded. \u201cAnd we have expressed, in no uncertain terms, here at the United Nations through a very strongly worded press statement from the Security Council, that we expect the Taliban to respect human rights, including the rights of women and girls. We have also indicated that they have to be respectful of humanitarian law, and that we do not expect to see that Afghanistan will become a safe haven for terrorists. But again, it is not their words that we will hold them to, it is their actions that we will be watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7366946778711\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says U.S. expressed &#8220;in no uncertain terms&#8221; at the United Nations through &#8220;a very strongly worded press statement&#8221; from the Security Council that &#8220;we expect the Taliban to respect women&#8217;s rights&#8221; and &#8220;to be respectful of humanitarian law.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/32TEyRFu4O\">pic.twitter.com\/32TEyRFu4O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1427823288206729222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Top responses to Thomas-Greenfield\u2019s remarks included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1427982609666224134\">Stephen Miller<\/a>, political commentator: \u201cThis admin actually went full Team America. Astounding.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkYoungTruth\/status\/1427981575925510149\">Dr. Mark Young<\/a>: \u201cWell now that we have written them a stern letter I am sure that a bunch of barbarians that rape women and behead innocent people will rethink their life choices.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1427980158645022723\">Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)<\/a>: \u201cThis can\u2019t be real.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GPIngersoll\/status\/1427979165094002691\">Geoffrey Ingersoll<\/a>, Daily Caller editor-in-chief: \u201cThe Taliban just survived a 20-year dose-e-doe with the greatest combined military might in the history of the world and we expect them to yield to a \u2018strongly worded press statement.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1427978483133714441\">John Cooper<\/a>: \u201cEmbarrassing. The only \u2018strongly worded statements\u2019 the Taliban understands are delivered via M4, A-10, or AC-130.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conservmillen\/status\/1427978277533126672\">Allie Beth Stuckey<\/a>, political commentator: \u201cMost of the non-Western world doesn\u2019t have a concept of a \u2018right\u2019 or \u2018humanitarian law.\u201d The basis for these is rooted in a Biblical ethic, whether the modern West wants to acknowledge that or not. The difference between the Taliban &amp; us is primarily &amp; fundamentally theological.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshgerstein\/status\/1427977938616692742\">Josh Gerstein<\/a>, reporter: \u201cComedy clearly has a place even amidst crisis.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1427976580643557378\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>: \u201cThat strongly worded statement to eighth-century barbarians will definitely change things after we completely surrendered billions in military hardware to them. Well done.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldNGOM\/status\/1427967392534212608\">Professor Gerald M Steinberg<\/a>: \u201cFile under: Don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joelmpetlin\/status\/1427946142495657990\">Joel M. Petlin<\/a>: \u201cAs long as the US issued *a very strongly worded press statement* I\u2019m sure the Taliban will immediately change course, because jihadists who institute Sharia Law, ban women from school &amp; most jobs, require burqas, &amp; ban musical instruments &amp; movies, REALLY fear a strong statement.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JJCarafano\/status\/1427979388692353034\">James Jay Carafano<\/a>: \u201cThis gets to the heart of the Biden screw-up. Never bring \u2018smart\u2019 power answers to a hard power problem.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Thomas-Greenfield, President Joe Biden\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, faced backlash this week after she said during a CNN interview that the administration was responding to threats of aggression &#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-657969","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\/657969","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=657969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657969\/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=657969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}