{"id":658028,"date":"2021-08-18T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658028"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:35:27","slug":"pence-accuses-biden-of-breaking-deal-with-taliban-says-withdrawal-is-disastrous-and-a-foreign-policy-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-accuses-biden-of-breaking-deal-with-taliban-says-withdrawal-is-disastrous-and-a-foreign-policy-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence Accuses Biden Of Breaking Deal With Taliban, Says Withdrawal Is \u2018Disastrous\u2019 And A \u2018Foreign-Policy Humiliation\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\">32<\/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%2Fpence-accuses-biden-of-breaking-deal-with-taliban-says-withdrawal-is-disastrous-and-a-foreign-policy-humiliation%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=658028&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-1230702122-e1629295943100.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the drawdown in Afghanistan, calling it a \u201cdisastrous \u2026 foreign-policy humiliation\u201d in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pence accused Biden of breaking the deal made by former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration with the Taliban by&nbsp;keeping troops in \u201cAfghanistan for an additional four months without a clear reason for doing so.\u201d Pence detailed the Trump administration\u2019s agreement with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/02\/28\/pompeo-esper-taliban-afghan-peace-deal\/\">Taliban<\/a> and said they \u201claunched a major offensive against the Afghan government and seized Kabul\u201d after Biden \u201cbroke the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn February 2020, the Trump administration reached an agreement that required the Taliban to end all attacks on U.S. military personnel, to refuse terrorists safe harbor, and to negotiate with Afghan leaders on creating a new government. As long as these conditions were met, the U.S. would conduct a gradual and orderly withdrawal of military forces,\u201d the former vice president explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeakness arouses evil\u2014and the magnitude of evil now rising in Afghanistan speaks volumes about the weaknesses of Mr. Biden. To limit the carnage, the president has ordered more troops to Afghanistan, tripling our military presence amid a supposed withdrawal,\u201d Pence continued..<\/p>\n<p>Pence\u2019s op-ed is just the latest in a series of finger-pointing as to who bears blame for the messy withdrawal and current situation on the ground in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-fighters-enter-kabul-afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-flees\/\">Afghanistan<\/a>. Biden in part blamed Trump during <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/joe-biden-address-nation-afghanistan-taliban\/\">remarks<\/a> Monday, saying he \u201cinherited\u201d the deal and had to choose between following \u201cthrough on that agreement\u201d or returning to fight \u201cthe Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/us-embassy-afghanistan-americans-shelter-in-place-kabul-reverses-warnings\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;\u2018Do Not Come\u2019: US Embassy In Afghanistan Reportedly Tells Americans To Remain In Place Before Removing Warnings)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration also said the Trump administration is partly at fault for the battle to get Afghan allies out because they didn\u2019t have a plan in place, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/afghanistan-crisis-pence-blames-biden-wsj-f3a21d68-e886-422d-a507-f1ea4f672631.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_content=politics-pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Pence\u2019s op-ed flipped the tables on the current administration, accusing them of being the ones with no plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no plan to transport the billions of dollars worth of American equipment recently captured by the Taliban, or evacuate the thousands of Americans now scrambling to escape Kabul, or facilitate the regional resettlement of the thousands of Afghan refugees who will now be seeking asylum in the U.S. with little or no vetting,\u201d Pence continued. \u201cRather, it seems that the president simply didn\u2019t want to appear to be abiding by the terms of a deal negotiated by his predecessor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics were quick to weigh in on Pence\u2019s op-ed, with Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn calling the piece \u201cmajor gaslighting.\u201d Joscelyn said that \u201cthe Taliban didn\u2019t comply with the counterterrorism provisions or hold real talks with the Afghan government,\u201d a point echoed by HuffPost Senior White House correspondent S.V. Date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.7409638554217\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is some major gaslighting. The Taliban planned to begin its winning offensive for May 1, the withdrawal date enshrined in Trump\u2019s deal. The Taliban didn\u2019t comply with the counterterrorism provisions or hold real talks with the Afghan government. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sgHQzMDPaV\">https:\/\/t.co\/sgHQzMDPaV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasjoscelyn\/status\/1427781472925126660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.463414634146\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to Pence, it was BIDEN who broke the deal by saying the US would remain in Afghanistan four additional months.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>(Our DoD said in February that the Taliban violated the 2020 agreement by continuing to work with Al Qaeda\u2026)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vckk2RGr3Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/vckk2RGr3Z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cxvo5OQN6P\">pic.twitter.com\/Cxvo5OQN6P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 S.V. D\u00e1te (@svdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/svdate\/status\/1427804155201134592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBiden owns this chaotic withdrawal,\u201d Joscelyn <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasjoscelyn\/status\/1427783280481427460?s=20\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe incompetence on display is obvious for all to see and deserves to be criticized. But Trump\u2019s deal with the Taliban was rubbish \u2013 perhaps the weakest diplomacy in U.S. history. The Taliban was glad to watch the U.S. retreat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the drawdown in Afghanistan, calling it a \u201cdisastrous \u2026 foreign-policy humiliation\u201d in an op-ed published by the Wall Street &#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-658028","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\/658028","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=658028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658028\/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=658028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}